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He also has returned to touring in his Model As, and has driven with his wife in their 1931 Model A across
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Milne, the son of Alex Milne and Eva Renton, was raised in a political family on a farm in Grey County, Ontario. Agnes
Macphail, the first woman elected to Parliament in Canada was a cousin of his father's. At age 15 he got his driver's licence, bought a Model A Ford and won a school bus contract
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International, where he carried out energy-related projects for the World Bank in Russia, Colombia, Peru and Vietnam, and was a project leader for CIDA in providing institutional strengthening training for energy projects in South America.
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