CANADIAN CONFEDERATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14006, 19 December 1917, Page 1

CANADIAN CONFEDERATION.

•'.'This'year. Canada .coinpjotcs' the' 'first half-century'of liercpnfc'deratiou-as a 'Do'iijinipn,,\yiintovev else in Hie way ,of celebrations has to "give, way to the war,, there is ho ban'pnt' upon* the writing 'of"words. Tho Mail and Umpire, •'AVtyloL-Expansiou' special number (published, at Toronto), itfone of ,them. Tim whole -history, of; Canada '■;'&■• trade,.. com* merce, awi'iiudiistriesiis set forth in nn illuminative lnanner by writers who arc 'authorities on' their subjects. The 'purport' oMbe boolc is boat 'explained by ' the headings :of theartieles. '' Canada, :a)Land of Dreams Come True," "CanMa, .-,:■. Her :Welding" into' Oneness," '"Canada, the Bread Giver of Nations,' 1 "'Canada, -' ■■ iter Forest' Wealth," "Canada, tho Treasury of Her Mines," "Canada and, Her Mighty Waters,'" "Canada, and the Clothing of. Her People,'' / 's ; Land—Mother of ,health," ".Canml\aiid tlje, People's 'Money," and so on until -the.;reader 'wonders whether there is any'enterprise that Canada lias uot attaiiioilto and niniic n-Kucces's of. Canada ih'lßo7 started wiih a yield ;of{ 65.00.0,001) bushels of grain. To-day the crops garnered in total 1,00,0,000,000 bushels. Her mines in ISO 7 yielded £l,(100,000woi ; th.of wcaltlu The mines in 1017 are valued at.£27,500,000. In IRG7 Canada's ': niamifnctuves were va'lneil atrno,ooo',ooo, : Their value In:dny. is. ■: £000;000,(i00. These are but a few of the figures of fifty years nl'.'pmgross whieli shout. louder Minn whole volumes pf liistoay.

•The unification of Canada Ims horno ili-.h fruit, anil no; the least satisfactory of these is the important place which Canada, as a Dominion, holds in the hearts of the'people of every province of the confederation. Of the .thirtythree negotiators in the Quebec Confer(Mice not one Charles Tupper l>oi lift- the lasi to go. lint there is not one of llic.-e who in not hiild in veneration.. Such n record is not held ■liv the fathers of every nation. ,