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P. R. Wallace, theoretical physicist at McGill, whose career spanned the second half of the 20th century, played a crucial role in bringing theoretical physics out of the Canadian wilderness.  His pioneering 1947 paper on the band structure of graphite is now famous because of the current interest in graphene, the subject of the 2010 Physics Nobel Prize. It took Wallace fifteen years to get his group of theorists at McGill transformed from outsiders to insiders. This personal view of those years builds on a talk given at the 2007 CAP Congress.