Gone walkabout: Traveller Jean Beliveau spends 11 years walking around the world

A 56-year-old Canadian man, who left home after his business went bankrupt, has completed an 11-year walk around the world, and told a crowd of well-wishers his new goal was to promote peace. 
 
Jean Beliveau - who arrived to a hero's welcome in Montreal yesterday from loved ones, MPs and supporters - said his "real mission'' was to lobby Canada and other governments to create "ministries of peace.''

"We are all different, and that is what is beautiful about life on Earth - our different colours, different beliefs, different political systems,'' he said.

"Those are all musical notes... we must create harmony from them, create a common tune,'' an emotional Beliveau told the crowd assembled at city hall in the old part of the city.   Full Read