Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928. DOMINION OF CANADA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 141, 26 March 1928, Page 4

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928. DOMINION OF CANADA.

Though there is little, if any, likelihood of the realisation of the vision of a united dominion of all the British countries on the Western side of the Atlantic, interest attaches .to the suggestion that Newfoundland should federate with the Dominion of Canada. So far back as 1840 the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were formed into a union and received responsible Government. But during the next twenty years the growth of population and the conflict of rival interests made some further readjustment, inevitable. There were a great many forces operating in Canada which tended to render the work of efficient administration difficult. “The mingled interests and conflicting opinions of Catholic and Protestant, Upper and Lower Canadians, French and English, Scotch and Irish, constantly thwarting and crossing one another,” eventually hroke down the system of party government, and compelled the rival leaders to realise that the one path to progress, security and prosperity for Canada lay by way of closer political union between the component parts. John A. Macdonald, "a Conservative, George Cartier, a French Canadian, and George Brown, a Radical, laid aside their ' personal differences and allied themselves together to obtain these ends. At a conference held at Quebec in 1864 there were drawn up certain terms and conditions on which the British North America Act of 1867 was ultimately based. As originally constituted the Dominion was composed of the provinces of Canada—Upper and Lower Canada, now Ontario and Quebec —Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Provision was made in the Act for the admission of British Columbia, Prince Edward Island,, the North-west Territories, and Newfoundland into the Dominion. Newfoundland alone has not

availed itself of such provision. Since the Act was passed Canada has not looked hack. In 1867 there stretched north and west of those early colonies a vast unexplored hinterland, awaiting the pioneer adventurer, the surveyor, the railroad builders. The Dominion now stretches from sea, to sea. The territories have been mapped out, provincial boundaries have been (fixed, great cities have sprung up along the railway, settlement has progressed, and Governments have been established .