SCOTCHMEN IN CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 3 (Supplement)

SCOTCHMEN IN CANADA.

Speaking at the annual dinner of Scottish Corporation, the Marquis of L( said : I am very glad that I should be ceived by sneh. a representative assembl an assembly representative of our fell citizens in England and Ireland as we! purely of Scotchmen. Speaking of rt) sentative assemblies, so far as Scotchmen concerned, they are no peculiar case, for truth is that wherever yon go in the w it is very difficult indeed to keep away f a representative assembly of Scotche Some fime ago I thonght I had got bey all Scotch influence on the coast of Labrai and I wanted on the occasion of visiting encampment of Indians—l was young in service at the time—to see a pure-bloo Indian, so I said to a friend who was v me, " You make one of those fellows ci to me — the most pure-blooded amoi them." And accordingly he shouted on French,, "Come here, come here, it donald." Another instance took pi much further away to the west—ind< very near the Rocky Mountains. I sa\ a fine Indian lodge a beautiful baby, asked to whom the baby belonged. ■', answer was, "Oh, yes; it is partly Injun, bnt it is partly an engineer ;" an turned oat that it; was partly a Scotchrr Now, gentlemen, we have lately been accu of talkiDg too much when amongst ourseJ of our successes. I don't allude to s successes as that. I shall not allude to s successes, but it is allowable for us to d< on one supposition only—a supposition which I shall afterwards allude, and t only on one ground. I certainly have s some very remarkable cases of auci amongst our countrymen abroad and in colonies. One of the most remarkable stances I have met with in recent yeare one I came , across in the country so Ioy; represented in the Canadian Government my honourable friend who now so wortl represents the Dominion Government England, Sir Charles Tupper. In it Scotia I found a Highland woma,n ct vating very successfully a farm, but could speak nothing but Gaelic, and husband could epeak nothing but Ital I have no doubt that the success of management was dae to the fact that t bad a tolerable Indian family, about twe children, who were able to act as in preters between them. Everywhere, £ Cape Breton on the Atlantic coast to inner valleys of that beiutiful couni British Columbia—everywhere I found t who said that they were Scotch, who come out with almost nothing, and > were in very comfortable) circumstam The last occasion on which I had the p sure of speaking to one of those i originally came from my own com Argyieshire, was the other day, w coming down tbe St. Lawrence, I ha< conversation with Mr. Sinclair, captair the steamer there, and he said he came in 1523 with a large number of others ; u; which I told him that the thing had i gone far enough as far as my own cous was concerned, and that we did not w any more from the rural districts to go to Canada. "Well, we were very ha] indeed, we were bright and cheerful, ■, the whole way across the Atlantic we no less than nine pipers." I recommenc those who are to cross the Atlantic strains oE nine pipers upon deck as a ] ventive of aea-sjoknes3. Passing to otl who have obtained greater possessions knew of many of our countrymen who i possess more land of their own in t happy land of Canada than the whole esfa of the proprietor on whose land they \v born. I know one case of a gentleman a did not begin under very exceptional oumstances, and he was able to come b years ago to Scotland and tell his mot! with perfect truth, that he had in his c possession more arable land than existed the Highlands of Scotland. She did believe him, and ahe said, "John, it m be really weak." It waa the best lan< the country. I mention these cases success, which are not doubted by any < and of which examples are to be foun< every quarter of the globe, for the pun of showing that we Scotchmen are not o successful, but that we wish to encoui that auccess in others, not by making pe< the recipients of foolish charity, but by i:ouraging that individual talent, enei and hardihood of character which tead Muccess in the struggle of life.