BERTHIAUME, TREFFLÉ (baptized Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé), newspaperman and politician; b

and publicity man, but also the confidant of Trefflé Berthiaume, the owner, would always excel at this task

Berthiaume], but it got off to a difficult start and throughout its brief existence never seemed to get on track. When it folded in March 1905, its losses were estimated at $80,000, the bulk of

with, among others, three Montrealers, Trefflé Berthiaume, François-Xavier Dupuis, and Lawrence Alexander