Mount Bedaux and the Bedaux Pass in Northeast B.C. may soon have their names removed from the map due to concerns the local landmarks commemorate an accused war criminal. The two sites are located at the headwaters of the Muskwa River in Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park, and named after the French-American industrialist Charles Bedaux, who in 1934 led an infamous subarctic expedition through the region. Bedaux, however, was later arrested for treason by the U.S. during the Second World War, accused of aligning his business interests and conspiring with Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied France. He committed suicide in 1944 in...
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