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Canada ! Maple-land 1 land of i^roat mountains ! 
 
 Lake-land and river-land ! Land 'twixt the seas! 
 Grant us, God, hearts that are large as our heritage, 
 
 Spirits as free as the breeze. 
 
 Grant us thy fear that we walk in humility, 
 Fear that is rev'rent — not fear that is base — 
 
 Grant to us righteousness, wisdom, prosi)erity, 
 Peace — if unstained by disgrace. 
 
 Grant us thy love and the love of our country ; 
 
 Grant us thy strength, for our strength's iti thy name ; 
 Shield us from danger, from every adversity, 
 
 Shield us, oh Father ! from shame ! 
 
 Last born of nations ! The offspring of freedom ! 
 
 Heir to wide praii'ies, thick forests, red gold! 
 God grant us wisdom to value our birthright, 
 
 Courage to guard what we hold ! 
 
THE GREATNESS OF OUR HERITAGE. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 From the list of subjects which were forwarded with your 
 re(iuest, I have chosen " The Greatness of our Heritage " as being 
 suitable for the occasion, though ill adapted for compression into a 
 short article ; and if I address principally the ehler scholars, it is 
 because their knowledge of the history ol our own and of other 
 nations will enable them to elaborate what I must condense. 
 
 The Physical Greatness of our Heritage, 
 
 " Whose flanks are mighty Oceans, 
 Whose base the Northern Sea," 
 needs little |)roof ; a single glance at an ordinary School Geography 
 shews it to l)e in form, as in size, one of the most valuable portions 
 of the Earth's surface ; and as if Providence had kept in reserve 
 its best gifts for this latest born of nations, we have, wafted into 
 our spacious western harbors and along our picturesque Pacific 
 coast, the trade winds of the Western Ocean, and with them that 
 ocean stream, heated in the cauldrons of the Asiatic coast, to aid 
 in making flowers bloom and trees bud, near the Arctic circle, as 
 early as on the mighty Mississippi, or the still mightier St, Law- 
 rence, just as the great stream poured out by the Mexican Gulf 
 foils the Ice King's blockade of the magnificent harbors of our 
 Eastern coasts, and nourishes those deep-sea pastures of which 
 Canada possesses the richest in the world. As a means of access 
 to the inner part of this favored land. Nature has cleft our rugged 
 Eastern coast with a wide and deep Gulf, from the head of which 
 mighty rivers aiid great lakes bear the home-hunter to near the 
 vei'ge of our jjrcat Cereo.l Table-land, where, through future wdieat 
 fields, turn and wind the Rivers of the great Plain, the Red, 
 Assiniboine, Souris, Qu'Appelle and Saskatchewan, and over it all 
 there has been given to us a climate which breeds no malaria, and 
 this great area, wii>h its southern latitude that of Rome, is free 
 from the pestilences which have from time to time scourged the 
 peoples of Western Europe. I might go on indefinitely le- 
 counting our blessings, but I must limit what I would v/ish to say 
 about the Physical Great'iess of our Heritage, to be able to speak 
 of its other aspects within the space allowed ; and so close with 
 an unchallenged statement made in the Legislature of the Dominion 
 regarding its then less well-known Western portion, as follows ; 
 
 " That it has the greatest extent of coast line ; the greatest 
 number of miles of river and lake navigation ; the greatest extent 
 of coniferous forest ; the greatest coal measures ; the most varied 
 distribution of precious and economic minerals ; the most exten- 
 sive salt and fresh w^ater fisheries ; and the greatest extent of ara- 
 ble and pastoral land of any country in the world," 
 
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 Possessing tliis great northern heritage is a noithorn race, 
 ruled hy a northern Queen. Our national characteristics are 
 northern, and tlie country we are so proud of is the Norland 
 of this continent; to the northern races of the old world whence 
 we sprang we look for our national characteristics ; and although 
 we form part of an em pile so vast as to dwarf, with its popula- 
 tion of over three hundred nnllions, our six or seven, yet it is these 
 northern characteristics which, serving us so well in the past, will 
 place us with the foremost in the time which is to come. 
 
 Who then is this Queen, whose people in this American 
 Northland so tenderly love and deeply reverence her ? Celtic she 
 is by her descent from Arthur, Norman by her descent from Wil- 
 liam of France, Saxon from Alfred, and from her old Norse 
 ancestry deriving her right to sway the sceptre of the sea. As 
 she is Celt and Saxon, Norman and Dane, so are we; for we have 
 in this Doniinion more Celts than had Brien when he placed his 
 heel upon the neck of Odin, more Saxons than had Alfred when 
 he founded his kingdom, more Normans than had William when 
 he drew from them the armed host with whicli he invaded 
 England, more of Norse blood than there were Norsemen when 
 their kings ruled Britain and their galleys swept the sea. We 
 are the descendants of all the northern kingdom-founders of 
 Western Europe. We have the laws of Edward, of Louis, Magna 
 Charta and the Roman Code ; we have copied the constitution 
 which English .statesmen, legislators, patriots and martyrs lived 
 or died to secui-e or save. We have territory, resources by sea 
 and land, civil and religious liberty; we are heirs, equally with 
 those who live in the British Isles, of the glory and traditions 
 of the British Empire. The Canadian has fought side by side 
 with the Englishman, Irishman and Scot on the burning sands 
 of India and Africa, on the bleak battle fields of the Crimean 
 Peninsula, fought as well, died as bravely, as any of them all ; 
 and if a degree of valor may be estimated by a single instance, 
 it should be remendoered that, by general consent of his surviving 
 comrades. Captain Dunn, born near Toronto, received the Victoria 
 Cross as the " bravest of the brave " in the charge of the Light 
 Brigade ; and, indeed, we need go no further than our own his- 
 tory to determine the military qualities of our people ; for the 
 odds and the result tell their own story, when we remember, 
 amongst many ethers, Queenston and Chateauguay; and it is an 
 historical fact that ours is one of the few countries where no foe 
 held a long, much less a permanent footing. 
 
 But enough of war. While with just pride we remember the 
 deeds of our ancestors for the past thousand years, and know that 
 when necessary the blood of the sea-kings, the sturdy Saxon, the 
 
piUant Norman and the fiery ^*olt, which is in our veins, will assert 
 itself again, yet thanks be to Ahnighty God, our national life began 
 and has continued in peace ; and as we chose for our national em- 
 blems the Canadian beaver and our own beautiful maj)le leaf, so 
 have we sought to build up, harmonize and iK^autify our splendid 
 heritage; and during the short period, less than a quarter of a 
 century, of our national life, we have made it possible for the ship 
 which sails from Vancouver westward to land her unbroken cargo 
 at Port Arthur; we have girded the continent with bands of steel, 
 piercing mountains, spanning toi rents; and crossing the snow-capped 
 giants of the Rocky and Selkirk chains, linked Canada, the youngest, 
 to Japan and China, the oldest of the empires of the Orient. We 
 have accom})lished in this short time on land that which astonishes 
 every visitor to our shores, while we have justified our traditions 
 on the sea, in making Canada third in rank of the mai-itime na- 
 tions of the world; and at this moment the sails of Canadian ships 
 whiten every sea, commanded by Canadian descendant.j of Drake, 
 ami Hawkins, Frobisher and Richard Orenville, Nelson and Col- 
 lingwcod, Cartier and D'Iberville. Better still than even this 
 material progre.'^s is the fact that we are* building the foundations 
 of our nationality broad and deep, cemented by the mutual respect 
 and confidence of the several parts, endeavoring to solemnize Law 
 with the moral sanctity of Religion, and to crown it with its only 
 appropriate capital. Lawful Constitutional Authority. 
 
 If we fulfil the traditions of our heritage, we will be a hardy, a 
 healthy, and a moral people, and if worthy of our ancestiy, a dar- 
 ing and a dominant race. Before the Romans knew much of the 
 valor of our ancestors, who were destined to sack Rome and defeat 
 them on the plains of Italy, they had learned to admire the moral 
 character of these northern peoples. " No one among them," says a 
 Roman historian, " makes a jest of vice, for it is not with them, as 
 with us, an age of corrupting and corruption." 
 
 I have said nothing of our mental (jualities. I havespace to say 
 but little, but no one can attend an examination in one of our pub- 
 lic schools or in any of our colleges, nor be much with those new 
 entering upon the nmch harder school of actual life, without being 
 convinced that in all mental qualities the youth of (^nada are 
 second to none. On them rests the future of this great country, the 
 exemplification of the attributes of our great race ; recreant to this 
 trust they may possibly be, but I see no sign of it in the present 
 and nothing in the future to disturb my deep-seated conviction that 
 they will continue as we have begun ; and building this nation in 
 the fear of Him Who gave ua this Great Heritage, with love for Her 
 who giive UK national life, endeavoring, as we have done, to dissolve 
 all differences and melt ^way all jealousies in the crucible of 
 
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 moderation and justice, that they and their chihiren will bequeath 
 it to their children's children free from national stain, that they 
 will be strong enough to preserve its unity and successful enough 
 to cause the day we now celebrate to be even more deeply honored, 
 and to rejoice in their birthiight, which to my mind is even now 
 the highest and best the world contains. 
 
 I have two pictures which are garlanded with Maple Leaves. 
 One is that of our beloved Sovereign, the Queen of Canada, on 
 whose fair young brow the Crown was placed tifty-four years ago; 
 the other, that of the wise, experienced and patriotic men who 
 composed the Confederation Conference at Quebec, from which 
 sprang our national life. Honourable Oliver Mowat, Sir Etienne 
 Tache, Geo, Bn wn, Sir John Macdonald, Grey, Chapais, Johnston 
 and D'Arcy Mc;.rue are all there shewn, amid the wisest statesmen 
 from all the Provinces. Only half of those then assembled are 
 now living; but they who have passed away, lived and died in the 
 belief the^< the Constitution then adopted and recommended to our 
 Queen was the best which human intellect could devise for the great 
 northern race upon this continent; and this is the heritage we re- 
 ceive from those founders of Confederation ; this is the noble 
 heritage this generation will leave intact, extended and strength- 
 ened, to you, the youth of this country. You will prosper so long 
 as you are w^orthy of this great trust; you will be blessed in pre- 
 serving and strengthening it, so long as you seek His aid to main- 
 tain it as the most precious of your birth-rights, and you will rise 
 to that place as a people in the great Empire, of which we foim a 
 part in proportion as you follow His precepts and obey His Divine 
 Law. Great as you are now, greater you will become, and as 
 citizens of Canada, citizens of the Great British Empire fulfil the 
 prophecy of the Druid priest to Boadicea, the first British Queen, 
 that in 
 
 " Regions Cajsar's legions never knew 
 
 "Our posterity shall sway, 
 "Where his eagles never flew, 
 "None invincible as they." 
 
 I have included in the foregoing the words and opinions of men 
 far more able than I to judge of the present and forecast the 
 future, and might have sent some extracts from the speeches of the 
 Fathers of our C^onfederation which are full of confidence and 
 hope, and calculated to strengthen and confirm the loyalty and 
 patriotism of our young people; but as space does not admit, I must 
 conclude by thanking you most cordially for the opportunity you 
 have given me of addressing them. 
 
 and remain, very faithfully, yours, 
 
 John Schultz. 
 
6 
 
 OUR DESTINY. 
 
 A problem of singular interest is being solved here. Two races, 
 the foremost in the ranks of hiunanity, long rivals in arts and 
 arms : the stolid, slow, but long enduring Saxon ; the lively, im- 
 pressible, gallant Frank,— are here invited to share a common 
 destiny, and work out a future of their own. The Norman and 
 Saxon of elder centuries have united with the Celt to make Eng- 
 land what she is. Saxon, Norman, and Celt meet here anew, under 
 other fortunes, to make of our common Dominion what futuie gen- 
 erations will know how to prize. Men of the old French monarchy, 
 before the era of revolutions, have been succeeded by those, who, 
 here, under the aegis of England, have been admitted and trained 
 to all the rights and privileges of a free people. LEtat, cest moi, 
 was the maxim of Louis le Grand ; and his descendant, Louis XVI., 
 reaped the ample harvest of such a seed time. Happy, indeed, 
 would be th(! Paris of to-day, if it could borrow the art of self- 
 government from Quebec ; and strangely constituted must his mind 
 be, who, amid the absolute freedom of self government which we 
 enjoy, can dream of casting in* his lot either with the sturdy Re- 
 public on our own borders, or its Gallic sister beyond the sea. 
 
 It is a privilege not to be lightly thrown away, that we share 
 the destinies of an empire where the Rajah of a British province 
 on the Indian ocean — beyond the farthest foot-print of the Mace- 
 donian Alexander, — sends as his loyal gift to the Olympian Games 
 of our common nationality, the prize cup which victors from our 
 young Dominion recently brought in triumph to our shores. The 
 generation has not wholly passed away wliich stood undaunted 
 against the banded powers of Europe ; and should the necessity 
 for it recur, it will be seen that England to herself can still be 
 true. 
 
 Our living present, as well as the sacred memories which we 
 inherit, as a member of that great British Confederacy which em- 
 braces in one united empire, India and Canada ; New Zealand and 
 Newfoundland ; the Bahamas ; the Antilles ; Australia and the 
 Cape ; are too precious to be lightly cast away. But if the time is 
 ever to come — 
 
 " Far on in sunnners that we shall not see," 
 
 when this young Dominion shall stretch across the continent, a 
 
 free nation, with duties and with interests all its own ; it will be 
 for its interest as well as its honor that it can then look back only 
 with loving memories on the common mother of the Anglo-Saxon 
 race ; while it emulates her example, and aspires to her worth. 
 
 Daniel Wilson, LL.D. 
 
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 NATIONAL STRENO-TH. 
 
 In extern of territory the Dominion of Canada is larger than 
 the United States, and nearly equal to the European Continent. 
 But bigness is not greatness. It may be opportunity for greatness, 
 but it is not greatness itself. A tall Frenon general reached over 
 Napoleon's head and handed him a book, saying, " Permit me, Sire, 
 I am greater than your Majesty." " You are longer," said Napoleon. 
 \ man's greatness is not measured by his length, nor do length and 
 breadth of teri'itory make a nation great. 
 
 In climate, soil and crude material wealth, our Dominion equals 
 any country in the world. But money does not always giv ' 
 strength. Athens in its palmiest days was not so wealthy as Chi- 
 cago, yet no people has scored deepen marks Uj)on the world's hi.s- 
 tory than the Athenians. Where money is made the main object, 
 the most unscrupulous men usually come to the surface. If we 
 make money our main pursuit, we shall rise among the nations of 
 the earth, but we shall rise as scum. 
 
 We have borrowed from the wisdom of all past a^es to establish 
 one of the best educational systems to be found on earth — but edu- 
 cation does not always give national strength. Education is but a 
 weapon to be used for good or evil according to the cliaracter of 
 those who possess it. The three R's if liot founded upon truth, 
 honesty, justice and purity will only produce what some one calls a 
 fourth R of rascaldom. 
 
 Least of all is the strength of this Dominion found in the num- 
 ber of its inhabitants. The question of numbers is wholly imma- 
 terial compared with that of character. A little milk and flour are 
 better than much chalk and arsenic, and a few good and healthy 
 men are more to be desired than a multitude of diseased rogues. 
 The strength of this Dominion is not in its extent of territory, its 
 gold, government, education nor multitude, but only in its sound 
 multitude. The strength of this country is in iis good men and 
 good women ; its weakness is in its bad men and bad women. Bad 
 men are to a nation's wealth as a robber to treasure; they are to a 
 nation's strength as rust to armor. They have power to blast, rot 
 power to bless. 
 
 We love our country, and our country is worth loving. Its 
 queen, its government, its climate, its soil, its schools, its sanctuaries, 
 supply charms which command our warmest affection and loyal • . 
 The first demand made upon us by our country is that we be good 
 men. Every bad person is according to the measure of his power, 
 forcing his country down into weakness and shame. Every boy, 
 girl, man and woman who is truthful, just, pure and honorable is 
 building up this Dominion into greatness and strength. 
 
 James Allen. 
 
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 STAND BY CANADA. 
 
 The school children of to-day are the nation of to-morrow. 
 Now at your desks and books seeking the knowledge essential to 
 guide you through the life that is before you, soon you will bs 
 called upon as citizens to aid in directing the interests of your 
 country. This page must necessarily fall into the hands of a num- 
 ber of the statesmen, orators, church dignitaries and men of profes- 
 sional eminence of the future central and western Canada. Among 
 its readers will probably be no small number of the great Canadian 
 women of the twentieth century. Is it strange that one should 
 feel diffident about addressing people of such importance ? 
 
 The responsibility of the school children of Western Canada, 
 and of Winnipeg particularly, which is the centre of education for 
 this new country, is no doubt far more serious than many, perhaps 
 any, of them imagine. Confederation, when it was proclaimed on 
 the 1st July, 1867, was a trifling affair compared with what it is 
 now. It then included Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New 
 Brunswick, or, as has been said, a few scattered settlements along 
 the banks of a single river and the lakes. It was not until 23rd of 
 June, 1870, when Rupert's Land and the Northwestern Territories 
 were added to the Dominion, that the future greatness of Canada 
 revealed itself like a splendid vision to her people. British Colum- 
 bia and Prince Edward Island were added during the two years 
 following. This completed the formation of our Dominion, and 
 brought under the pleasing shade of the Canadian maple leaf a 
 country more than three million and a half square miles in extent, 
 nearly thirty times as large as the United Kingdom, larger than 
 the United States and almost as large as the continent of Europe, 
 the home of nearly all the greatest nations of the world. This is 
 the country whicl^ you will soon have to unite in building up, de- 
 veloping and governing. Belgium in Eur'jpe is not much more than 
 half the size of Nova Scotia, our second smallest Province, and yet 
 there are fewer Canadians to promote the welfare and uphold the 
 honor of our great Dominion than there are Belgians to take care 
 of little Belgium. 
 
 You know, too, that since the addition of this great Northwest 
 and British Columbia to Confederation, six-sevenths of Canada are 
 in the west and nearly all <-he people are in the east. Right here 
 in the centre and west of the Dominion the efibrts which are to 
 determine whether Canada shall have a glorious or an inglorious 
 future must be put forth. The work is heavy, the hands are few, 
 and the responsibility correspondingly great. It is because our 
 country needs, and will continue to need in an increasing degree. 
 
the unswerving devotion and intelligent assistance of every Cana- 
 dian, that it is never too soon to cultivate the deepest possible in- 
 terest in her past history, present condition and in the ]»roblems of 
 her future. Let every Canadian school bi)y and school girl, who is 
 old enough to do so, study Canadian history. 
 
 What is the moral oi;' Canadian history ? Are we an enter- 
 prising nation ? Where else could you find a handful of people 
 willing to tax themselves forty millions of dollars for a railway in 
 the eastern provinces, and one hundred millions for so huge an un- 
 dertaking as our transcontinental road ? What other country with 
 an equal population can boast of such railway and canal systems, 
 of such public works ? Was not the very formation of Confedei-a- 
 tion an enterprise that would be great in any history '{ 
 
 Is any nation more capable of self-government ? Read of the 
 struggles of our pioneers for honest politics, imj)artial judges and 
 responsible government, and see how from their efforts grew up the 
 Canadian parliamentary and nmnicipal systems of to-day. "No- 
 where," it has been said, "have the loyalty of the subject and the 
 prestige of the nation been more sorely tried, and nowhere have 
 they been more nobly vindicated or more honorably sustained than 
 in Canada." 
 
 Are the Canadians a brave people, worthy of so great a trust 
 as that which has been reposed in them ? History points us in re- 
 ply to the events of 1775, and 1812, to Queenston Heights, Stoncy 
 Creek, Moraviantown, Chateauguay, Chrysler's Farm and Lnndy's 
 Lane :— 
 
 " O thou that bor'st the battle's brunt 
 At Queenston and at Lundy's Lane, — 
 On whose scant ranks but iron front 
 The battle broke in vain ! 
 
 " Whose was the danger, whose the day, 
 
 From whose triumphant throats the cheers. 
 At Chrysler's Farm, at Chateauguay, 
 Stormi>ig like clarion bursts our ears ?" 
 
 Whatever may be the future of our great country — and no dis- 
 honorable future can await the Canadian people — read her history, 
 become familiar with the genius of her institutions, the instincts 
 and aspirationc of her people, and, above all, stand \y her, rain or 
 shine ! 
 
 — F. C. Wade. 
 
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 OUR DOMINION. 
 
 Canada is not merely a string of Provinces, fortuitously strung 
 together, but a single nationality ; young, but with a life of its 
 own ; a colony in name, but with a national spirit, which though 
 weak, is growing stronger daily ; a country with a future, and 
 worthy of the lo^'alty of its sons. It means in the next place the 
 settled conviction that the honor of Canada must always be main- 
 tained, no matter what the cost, and that Canadian interests are of 
 first importance. Any man who is animated by these convictions 
 is a true Canadian, no matter what his views may be as to the 
 political form that the Dominion is ultimately to assume. 
 
 It is a wide and goodly land, with manifold beauties of its own, 
 with boundless resources, that are only beginning to be developed, 
 and with room and verge for empire. Each province has attract- 
 ions for its children. * * * It has been my lot to live for a 
 time in almost every one of our provinces, and to cross the whole 
 Dominion, again and again, from ocean to ocean, by steamer or 
 canoe, by rail and buck-board, on horse-back and on foot, and I 
 have found, in the remotest settlements, a remarkable acquaintance 
 with public questions and much soundness of judgment and feeling 
 wHh regard to them ; a high average purity of individual and 
 family life, and a steady growth of national sentiment. 
 
 I have sat with the blackened toilers in the coal mines of Pictou 
 and Capo Breton, the darkness made visible by the little lamps 
 hanging from their sooty foreheads, have worshipped with pious 
 Highlanders in log-huts, in fertile glens and on hill sides, where the 
 forest gives place slowly to the plough, and preached to assembled 
 thousands, seated on grassy hillocks and prostrate trees; have fished 
 and sailed with the hardy mariners, who find "every harbour, from 
 Sable to Causeau, a home;" have ridden under the willows of 
 Evangeline's country, and gazed from north and south mountain 
 on a sea of apple-blossoms ; have talked with gold miners, fisher- 
 men, farmers, merchants, students, and have learned to respect my 
 follow countrymen and to sympathize with their Provincial life, 
 and to see that it was not antagonistic, but intended to be the hand- 
 maid to a true national life. 
 
 Pass from Annapolis Royal into the Bay of Fundy, and then 
 canoe up the rivers, shaded by the great trees of New Brunswick. 
 Live a while with the habitants of Quebec, admire their industry, 
 frugality and courtesy ; hear their carols and songs, that blend the 
 forgotten music of Normandy and Brittany with the music of 
 Canadian words ; music and song, aS well as language -^nd religion, 
 rooting -in them devotion to "Our Language, our Laws, our Insti- 
 tutions." Live in historic Quebec, and experience the hospitality 
 of Montreal. Pass through the Province of Ontario, itself possess- 
 
 

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 ing the resources of a kingdom. Sail on lakes great enough to be 
 called seas, along rugged Lauren tian coasts, or take the new North- 
 west passage by land, that the Canadian Pacific has opened up from 
 the upper Ottawa, through a thousand miles once declared im- 
 practicable for railways, end now yielding treasures of wood, and 
 copper and silver, till you come to that great prairie ocean, that sea 
 of green and gold in this month of May, whose billows extend for 
 nigh another thousand miles to the Rocky Mountains, out of which 
 great provinces like Minnesota and Dakota will be carved in the 
 immediate future. And when you have reached the Pacific, and 
 look back over all the panorama that unrolls itself before your 
 mental vision, you will not doubt that the country is destined to 
 have a future. You will thank God that you belong to a genera- 
 tion to whom the duty has been assigned of laying its foundations ; 
 and knowing that the solidity of any construction is in proportion 
 to the faith, the virtue and the self-sacrifice that have been wrought 
 into the foundation, you will pray that you, for one, may not be 
 found wanting. 
 
 Rev. G. M. Grant, D.D. 
 
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 A COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF. 
 
 Above all, remember, things are not with you as they were a 
 few short years ago. British North America is no longer a conge- 
 ries of disconnected Provinces, destitute of any strong bond of 
 sympathy or mutual attachment. You are no longer Colonists or 
 Provincials — you are the owners, the defenders and guardians of 
 half a continent — of a land of unbounded promise and predestina- 
 ted lenown. That thought alone should make men and soldiers of 
 you all. Life would scarcely be worth living, unless it g^Arf* us 
 something for whose sake it was worth while to die. Out )ur 
 
 domestic circle there are not many things that come up ..^ that 
 standard of value. But one at least you possess — a country you 
 can be proud of; and never should a Canadian forget, no matter 
 what his station in life, what his origin or special environments, 
 that in this broad Dominion he has that, wliich it is worth while 
 both to live for and to die for. 
 
 Lord Dufferin. 
 
 ♦ ♦ ♦ 
 
 When men unto their noblest rise, 
 Alike for ever see their eyes ; 
 Trust us, Grand England, we are true, 
 And, in your noblest, one with you. 
 
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 A PROSPECT. 
 
 But mark, by Fate's sti-ong finger traced, 
 Our country's rise ; see time unt'okl, 
 
 Tn our own land, a nation based, 
 On manly worth, not lust of gold. 
 
 It's bourne the home of generous life, 
 Of ample freedom, slowly won. 
 
 Of modest maid and faithful wife. 
 Of simple love 'twixt sire and son. 
 
 Nor lessened would the duty be. 
 To rally then around the throne, 
 
 A filial nation, strong and free. 
 
 Great Britain's child to manhood grown. 
 
 WHAT CANADIAN MEANS. 
 
 You have a variety of pursuits in this country. Determine to 
 be of use to the land which has given you birth. Determine to be 
 a credit to it. Remember you are Canadians, and remember what 
 til is means. It means that you belong to a people who are loyal to 
 their Queen, whom they reverence as one of the most perfect of 
 women, and as their Sovereign ; and who see in her the just ruler 
 under whose impartial sway the various races, creeds, and nationa- 
 lities of this great Empire are bound together in happiness and 
 unity. But to be loyal, means even more than this. It means that 
 you are true to your duties to your fellow countrymen, and that 
 you will work with and for all, for the common weal and brother- 
 hood and tolerance. It means, finally, that you will be true to 
 your self-respect, that you will do nothing unworthy of the love ot 
 your God, who made you in His image, and set you in His fair land. 
 I believe that you will each and all of you be loyal and true 
 Canadians, tL«,v. you will devote your energies throughout your 
 lives for the good of your native province, and for the welfare of 
 this wide Dominion, and I feel in speaking to you that I address 
 those whose children will assuredly be the fathers of a mighty 
 nation. 
 
 Lord Lorne,