THE SCOTSMAN IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 545, 28 June 1909, Page 6

THE SCOTSMAN IN CANADA.

V' In tie.May. issde of "Chambers's Jonihal" thore'isia- readable article by- Mr.. Jaines Milne (the'editor of Book Monthly"), entitled '."An. Impression of Canada.'.' '.Mr. •Miliw.foHats';-about'"-th'e".. i St. , Lawrence,"', of. the French Canadians, and goes oh:—"Speaking of Canada; one speaks* of London aid ,Sdinbnrgh almost las' equal capitals, / becariso' wherever you go in tho Dominion you nieet Scotsmen; and always the inquiry'is about the 'North Countree.' Canada has [largely been, developed, by Soots-. men, and in no other colony does a young Scotsman-get a better welcome. -I was talk-ling-one. ; day to the; secretary of-;'a;..'great Canadian' bank; and I happened to ask him if he of ton recruited his B,tafE from Home, because' Canadians always apeak of the Old Country as "Homo.' > "No, 1 bo said, 'wo don't tako out many clerks nowadays; when we do, wo prefer young Scotsmen to young Eriglishmetf The: Englishman has an idea that. a colony is a placb which wants to. be .taught ■how'to do its:work,' : and ho is apt to :bo a : littlo patronising.-*. The Scotsman, on _tho otlror, hand, is willing at once to enter'into ,tho ways'of" tho/colonies, to take his sbaro of thingson our democratic basis, and that is why wo like him best.';' With tho FrenchCanadian, too, Scotsmen get on very! well, "and the old association'.betweenScotland— say in the time of Mary Stuart—and Franco is even to-day ah clement in that good feeling. Perhaps the French-Canadians 'as a -mass, and especially the French-Canadian farmer who (figs his living from tho soil by the sweat of his brow, have not learned everything the modern world can teach.them,'but thoy have not forgotten either, and certainly they have not "forgotten the association of their one-time fatherland with the Scotland of the..Stuarts. ..If-anybody 'ever thought of another Jacobite rebellion, Canada would be a likely place in which to -fltort iV" '