 He went on to edit "Le Courrier de l'Ouest" in Edmonton, Alberta, the first French-language newspaper west of Winnipeg, Manitoba.A member of the Canadian army in World War I, Brutinel initiated and commanded the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit of the British Empire.In August 1914, Major Raymond Brutinel enrolled the first recruits for the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in the Château Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario.