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 Montreal Section of Canadian Architects 
 
 ON THE OCCASION OF THE 
 
 Annual meeting of the Association, and luncheon offered by 
 the Quebec Section to their metropolitan confreres 
 
 AT THE 
 
 CHATEAU FRONTENAC. QUEBEC. — OCT. 2. 1895. 
 
 I On rising in aiiswor to your toaHt to ni y.>«elf and 
 
 I the Quebt'C Section, 1 must ask you to allow me to 
 
 I do 80 in the language of he whose name the Chateau 
 
 I hears, in which we are now met together on this 
 
 mission : Frontenac, gentlemen, He who from the 
 summit of this fort, in answer to Adaiiral Phipps' 
 summons to surrender, sent back, the messenger with 
 the injunction : " Allez dire a votre maitre ([ue je lui 
 \ repondrai par hi bouche de mes canons ". But from 
 
 ' these almost sacred heights, from these historical pre- 
 
 I cincts, it would require the eloquence of a Cha[)leau 
 
 ' or a Laui-ier to do justice to the occasion. 
 
 j Now at the very outset, I mu-t ask you to bear 
 
 with me, while, though a subject of iier Britanic Ma- 
 jesty, 1 tell you why I crave the privi ledge of 
 answeri«ig your toast in the language of my peers ; 
 I wish thereby to proclaim the nece.^sity of the dual 
 idioms. Proud Albion seeing that her tongue in 
 
p])oken by her 200 millions of british subjects, seems 
 anxious to extend the language and cause its adoption 
 by all the nations of the earth — }>ut (lod forbid that 
 such should ever come to pass ; and, this, as you will 
 immediately see, in the best interests, pecuniary and 
 humanitarian, of England herself and of her colonies. 
 
 Let Canada also ponder twice ere it decrees the 
 elimination of the french ; for every nation likes to 
 be informed, in its own tongue, of tie doings, sayings, 
 writings of every other nation. 
 
 Anarch}'^ is giving itself vent, as expressive of the 
 views of communism, socialism, which Louise Michel 
 of France defines to be a desire, a necessity that the 
 rich who have more than wherewithal to do, should 
 share with those who have too little. Now the army 
 of the necessitous, the poor, the unemployed, is but 
 too great already — its numbers : legion, millions ; 
 and to those millions would be added, by the suppres" 
 sion of our tongue, other millions in the shsipe of un- 
 employed Li.-nslators who now find a living in thus 
 ministering to the requirements of tlu'ir fellows — 
 and not only would the translators be thrown 
 out of employment, but the print(;rs, typos., [)res - 
 men and those who make th»» paper, cast the type, 
 pre.iare the ink, who do the folding, sewing, stitching, 
 binding ; the scores, the hundred-, may be thousands 
 already engaged in the new industry of felling our 
 forest trees for pulp, and of milling it into pai)er, in 
 substitution for the forest papyrus of old. : .. 
 
 Let us but conceive of the thousands thus to be 
 thrown upon the world ; and I tell you gentlemen 
 
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 that even our francoi)h<)bic westerners will look twice 
 before tliey leap, or ere they persist in their outcry 
 for " one lanj^^uage," the suppression of the french, 
 the most elegant of all idioms; that admittedly best 
 adapted to the diplomatic requirements of all nations. 
 No ! gentlemen ; no volapuk, no universal language ; 
 and let us beware also how we give concurrence 
 to any f*cheme of assimilating the currencies of 
 nationSjtheir systems of computing time, their weights 
 and measures. Any reduction of the kind to one 
 unique type of units for the world, would at one fell 
 swoop throw upon the charity of the world at large, 
 the mil. ions now kept busy and from starvation, by 
 being utilized in translating, reducing the units of 
 one nation into the equivalent-* of another. 
 
 And now sirs that you have, 1 am sure, forgive- 
 nen me this digression somewhat called for by the 
 surging cry around us for employment; and which, if 
 we can not minister unto, it behoves us at any rate, 
 not to aggravate, by decreasing labor instead of finding 
 work for those who have none ; let me tell you how 
 highly I appreciate your polituess in drinking to ray 
 health and that I am certain of correctly expressing 
 the sentiments of my confreres of the Quebec 
 Section, in telling you how much flattered and 
 pleased the Section is collectively and individually 
 at receiving you and in endeavoring to make even 
 this slight return for your princely hospitality to 
 us when in Montreal. 
 
 Rut, on this score, you are certainly open to some 
 reproach for not having allowed us, Quebecers, an 
 opportunity of doing things in a way more worthy of 
 
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 your apprecintion. Montreal has smoked, wined, dined 
 and feted us, as the saying is, and taken us to the 
 opera — we naturally desired to retaliate, as I told 
 you all last year, and wrote you all: in a soiree with 
 your wives and daughters at the Frontenac — Mon- 
 treal last year held a conversazione in the pictured, 
 marbled, bronzed, flowered halls of the Society of 
 Arts, with delicious music and refreshments all the 
 while ; and the elite of Montreal societv where there 
 convened including ladies of course to do honor to 
 the society ; and on a former occasion, that of our first 
 meeting in Montreal I believe Hble Mayor McShane 
 and his cliHrming wife convened us all to a splendid 
 soiree at the City Hall ; and now you, in your pride, 
 and as if you thought we could not do honor to the 
 occasion, or may be with the humanitarian feeling 
 of not putting us to too much expense ; you have 
 thwartfd our hopes, our best endeavours. We would 
 have preferred, 1 say again, giving you a ball, :i 
 soiree ; hut we could not do it, you were so consi- 
 derate as to cause your secretary to intimate — 
 pressed as you are, I suppose, for business, and poor 
 Quebec offering no attractions to you in the sphere of 
 your affections — to intimate, I say, that you would 
 be here only for a day; which we understood to mean : 
 coming to us by the morning train and leaving by 
 evening train or boat; and hence the mere hincheon 
 at which you are now present But sirs, we hold you 
 in reserve for a future occasion; and let ine tell vou 
 that what we may be impotent to obtain will likely 
 be brought about by natural circumstances to which 
 I shall now allude. > , 
 
In your lejujitimate pride a« metropolitans, yon 
 make little of n», Qnebecers — we are at the end of 
 the world and it is exceptional to find in vonr citv 
 l)re8s, more than three lines at a time devoted to the 
 doings of the olden capital. Our turn will come, and 
 may be it is close at hand. 
 
 If Quebec to day is attractive to tourists only, 
 due to its drives, its points of view, its terraces, the 
 surrounding landscape, its unrivalled port, its carni- 
 vals of ice and iire — if commerce, business have for 
 30 years past eschewed, abandoned our ports, and 
 rendered us disinterested to the extent of cuttin-: 
 our own throats to favor Montreal, to make it an 
 ocean port, the head waters of ocean navigation, 
 by spending our millions in deepening lake St. Peter- 
 nature is now about to force vou to return to vour 
 whilom loves — (revenir a vos anciens amours) for 
 apart from the Chicago canal which will lower the St. 
 Lawrence between Quebec and Montreal and up to 
 lake Ontario by ful'y 5 per cent— and I was the first 
 to call the attention of our people to this unwar- 
 ranted, unauthorized international spoliation — 
 apart, I i^{\\, from the tapping of our waters to draw 
 them off towards the Gulf of Mexico— there are other 
 schemes ujmju the tapis (the deep water convention 
 now bein>! held at Cleveland is proof to what I s.iy ) : 
 canals one or more which will run another 10 per 
 cent, another 20 of our noble river, from the great 
 lakes towards the Atlantic by the Mis.-sissippi and 
 the Hudson ; and this handiwork of man is already 
 being added to by natural causes : our waters as you 
 «ee on all hands are being lowered, shallowed. Alan 
 
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 Is !Uk1 linH IxMMi the direful agent in hrinjring this 
 jihoiit— he liiis, under our government's most unwise 
 policy of timber limits, with no reserve ; cut down our 
 forests, left })ear the ground, the country ; instead of 
 the wise ])olicy of France and of the mother country, 
 t) cause the forest to persist, by si)aring every tree 
 less than twelve inches in diameter— he has swept 
 the surface clean and where the axe has been im- 
 })otent to do the unlniUowed work, man has abetted 
 fire in its devouring greed to lay waste our God 
 given patrimony of wealth ajid plenty— Well, see 
 you how it is? You are astonished nowadays at 
 the greater lre(iueney of cyclonic winds, and storms 
 and inundations. No wonder, ihough. this should be 
 so. when the winter's snow which formerly, protect- 
 ed frcmi the sun's rays by the fo iage, melted and 
 ran of!' slowly into rills and rivilets and rivers; 
 now melts, as it were, all at a bound of sun shine and 
 rushes along in its maddened devastating course, 
 carrying away mills and bridges and whole villages, 
 and increasing our waters to a depth unknown before 
 in spring ; while per contra, the rains of summer 
 which, when the lands w.re wooded, ran from them 
 slowly and njeasuredly, as in the wisdom of God it 
 had been will'd they should, reaching in time our 
 lakes and rivers through their tributaries ; these 
 waters now are .ucked up by the sun, before they 
 reach their destination, or on the way, absorbed by 
 the dried up, parched beds of the unprotected rivers ; 
 and hence in every way the St Lawrence is gra- 
 dually growing less and less: and gentlemen you will 
 have to come to us to get deep water ; for thank God, 
 
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 tlie Ocejui is still there, and the moon far e:ioufrh 
 aWMv for man in his destructive rage, and thoiiirh he 
 Tiiav })rin2 it within a stone's throw bv the telescopi', 
 to be not able to interfere with it, ninoh less the sun 
 in giving us the tides which, if they cannot reach 
 to Montreal, will continue to Quebec, and make this 
 the head of ocean navigation, the true ocear. port for 
 steamers of draught too great for shallowed lake St. 
 Peter. 
 
 Now think ye, gentlemen, that we dot^'on these 
 ])ossibilitie.s of the near future ; think ye that we tell 
 you this in proud retaliation of the past ? Not so, bv 
 Hny means, we look forward to it with plpuaure, to 
 do you good, not harm ; to help you find a remunera- 
 tive field for 3'our unexpended and ever increasing 
 millions — Come to us, we are ready to receive vou 
 with open arms; we have for some years past been 
 endeavouring to put on the new man — not the new 
 woman witli her unfeminine, unloveable prerogatives 
 — we liave a new parliament, a new post office, new 
 courts of justice, new hospitals, new liotels: the 
 Florence, Clarendon, Victoria, the Chateau Frontenac 
 adeijuate to all tastes, all purses, all aspirations — 
 we have a new City Hall by our friends Tanguav 
 & Valh'e and a new Mayor full of yo;ith talent 
 and initiative enterprise. He saw as I had {)();iite(i 
 out, that tho "Westward" cry must }»e abandoned, 
 and that instead of St. Sauveur, St. lioch or Mount 
 Pleasant, the walled portion of the Citv was ji-eoiira- 
 phically the most central for Quebec's future, and 
 now the extension of the city is going forward 
 towards Montmorency, between which and the citv 
 proper there is a stretch of si.\ or seven miles 
 
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 of unimproved territory — This is where we await 
 vour Montreal millionnaires, and we will not be 
 jealous if they bring you down with them to build 
 them up and tell them how to make available ground, 
 of the Beauport fore-shore (the so called battures) by 
 building return tramways to the close-by heights 
 and quarries where lie ready, centuries of quarry 
 refuse which would reach its destination by gravita- 
 tion only and the loaded cars return the empty ones. 
 Ground can be made here for almost nothing — 
 Gentlemen this is no idle theory of mine — already 
 some of your own people are here at work. MM. 
 Whitehead & Co. have erected vast cotton and woolen 
 factories' at the Montmorency, and one of yourselves, 
 Wallbank, is the architect. The thriving village of 
 of Hedlvville is advancing to meet LaCanardi^re and 
 Richardson's factories. MM. I^arent and Bedard 
 both ex-ma/ors of the large and thriving parish of 
 Beauport have for the fourth time in nearly three 
 centuries rebuilt, the as often fired brewery of Racey 
 memory and celebrity ; the water from the river 
 Beauport being pronounced by analysts amongst the 
 very best in America for the required purpose. This 
 factory of brer and lager will do much good in wean- 
 ing men from their whi-kying propensities, it will 
 render them stern and strong and healthv and fit 
 them for your purposes of building you up docks 
 elevators, refrigerators for vour transatlantic busi- 
 ness, while the want of water at Montreal may 
 seriously inpair the utility of your Hocheiaga aid 
 other schemes. O.ice more thiin geutlemju, let us 
 say : come to us and we will receive you for our 
 mutual benefit with welcome and outstretched arms. 
 
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