John Craig Eaton

After nine years as explorer, prospector, land developer, and newspaper editor in the Canadian Northwest, he arrived in Montreal a millionaire.

Brutinel then formed and led what would become the first Canadian machine gun brigade, raising the money from a group of Canadian millionaires, including Clifford Sifton and John Craig Eaton.

As a result of Brutonel, Canada entered the war with more machine guns than Britain.

Routinel had the revolutionary idea that the machine gun, instead of being aimed at its target as a sort of super rifle, should be regarded as a form of artillery, firing over the heads of the enemy, denying him access to certain areas, thickening the artillery barrage, and by sweeping the enemy's front trenches, preventing him from repairing wire destroyed by the artillery.

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family had Sir John Eaton and Lady Eaton had been fervent supporters and had committed $100,000 in the day, which is a very large investment.

So it was looking very positive.

He brought together a crew, many of them veterans of his earlier expeditions, notably.