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(Continued from Page 1! . ,3 extraordinary country this is .—wh.alt colour and variety it has » and, as modern painters wopld .....,,y, -what rhythm. I am thinking ="*’;s I talk of certain remote and *-"little known corners of our land. ...,They will, I hope, make us rea- once again how many places 1,, Canada have a fascinating background of romance, adven- and of great human inter- esbo many of us, for instance, W ‘know about Barkerville. Two NW5 of little houses on a wind- mg street with an idle saloon and an empty church. In the sixties ‘ it was a crowded, pulsating cen-

‘itre for the great numbers who

were attracted by the Cariboo Gold Rush in British C-olu‘:rnbia— perhaps eight thousand 1n that

‘community alone — the largest

’ place then between Chicago and

-7'-the Coast. Now it‘ stands, prac-

uni-nhabited—-a ghost town

‘a monument to the enterprise, tho hopes, the disappointments, that can affect human beings.

’ In sharp contrast with Banker- vllle is another place I have seen. 1t; “pop. trends” have been up, not down. Elliot Lake in the ur- anium field on the month shore of Lake Huron hardly existed as a -settlement five or six years ago and it now has a population of about 17,000.

How many out-of-the-way pla- ces there are in Canada which reflect the drama of, the past, or forecast the future,’ or do both. Icould give you a long list, but I won’t—-just a few examples. MOOSE FACTORY

Moose Factory, at the mouth . of the Moose River, a few miles

from James Bay — the last re-

maining great Hudson’s Bay post with its venerable buildings still pretty » iv/all intact + although

sadly needing repair”. Moose Factory is the second oldest post in the Hudson's Bay Company. I was greeted by a guard of hon- our of Indians, enthusiastically firing shotguns! St. Anthony, at the northern- , most tip of Newfoundland — the centre of the great Grenfell Mis- sion; bleak and inaccessible, but I manned by a devoted staff, who - have served that northernlr-egion ' Ind the coast of Labrador -so loy- T lily over the years. The settlements of Haida In- dians in the Queen Charlotte Is- f lands. An ancient and gifted peo- ple, they are not very numerous now, but they have _ preserved their traditional arts and they . have kept something else —- 'a sense of deep pride in their Tmst. One of the Chiefs. in his .address of welcome said, the » “war canoes of the Haidas, like : the Royal Navy itself, were . never defeated”! « FROBISHER BAY , Froblsher Bay in Baffin Island. .where I saw Eskimos dancing . Scottish reels, and when I asked ‘how they had learned them, I 1 was told—from Scottish Whalers . a hundred years or so ago. The Magdalen Islands, the lit- : fie archipelago in the Gulf of St. 3,1-awrence, with a brave and ‘hardy people, half farmers, half gfisherfolk. They receive few vis- .-lts and when I spent four or five ’ ‘lays in their water, all the peo- ,I’I° of some of the villages as- Jembled to welcome me. : have many pictures in my ~ mlnd of what I have seen in the six years, illustrating the and varied pattern of Can- Idn. It may have been a yoke of Ewe“?-I3'~411abched oxen which I “W Slowly moving through the _ mung streets of Lunenbung .. Nova Scotia; or bars of gold . I mine in Yellowknife — the 9'1‘ 0!! Great Slave Lake in our ".."-rhem Wilderness whose life is Died on its gold; or a band of V. Y_ trained and disciplined .. tuners in Cape Breton, each « ' the tartan of her family. 91'. my catalogue must not too long, lest my anec- perform the function of a

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“$333 places, some of them gnmﬂl. hardly known in the life

meentres of population. I mu? lllaces with their own 3"; in-51!‘ 0_W11 pride and ambi- im the Job they do, which is any Dortant part of the whole; verysellttiﬁnlehts on the prairies, or en mm. the wow “cw m,me_g1‘_t5“J‘Dr1sing part in their mats’ inlge but ancient ‘settle- .e pop 1 0 Gaspe Peninsula, ml: ation drawn from so

; ‘$6065 blended into a un- the Rome mountain villages in I think es. ‘ ved IYOU W1'I'I understand how vmou ‘"1 110' these glimpses some of Shglaces in our country. we link“ se are bound by fra- lnx from 0 8 past which is mov- 115- Others point to fu-

:§-m- t9 9 D.m. with a multi- Iiye 05 displays, such as the one a- ove. Many of the items on dis-

play are being shown on the Is land for the first time.

presented.

tube, but they are all a part of 11S, of our character, of our qua}-

lty as a people. PRECIOUS MONUMENTS

Some of our communities are not only Important in their pres-

ent -activities but preserve prec

ious monuments of the past. Here, of course, 111 Charlottetown, the visitor 1s forcibly reminded of

this. There is no schoolboy in Ca

nada who does not know the part that this City played in the mak. 1118 of our n-ation. You have care-

fully preserved at great monu

mew, °f this in your Pr-ovince Bmldmg 5 ‘the room in which the SD-_1end1d idea of Confederation was first formally considered by those who became the Fathers of our nation. The crowds of peo- ple who come to see this nation- al shrine must be very reward. 1_“g_ f0 you. What a moving story it 15, our Confederation. A great concept. struggling in the minds of a. few; responsive sentiment growing in the hearts of many

I cannot help remembering the efforts we made in London in 1942 to commemorate the 75th Anni- versary of Confederation. The most important event was a Can- adian Service in Westminster Ab- bey. The great Church was full of Canadians, almost all of them from the Armed Forces. The King and Queen graced the occa- sion with their presence. The most impressive moment came when a young sailor, soldier and carrying the Canadian Ensign, moved slowly from the West Door up the Nave and through the Choir, while the strains of “O Canada" came ﬂoat- ing down from the organ. The Flag was given to the Dean, who placed it reverently on the Altar.

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WEST INDIES '

I ‘am reminded, as I tal=k to you of Confederation, about a similar achievement which we Canadians are watching with great interest and sympathy — the Federation of the West Indies. I was in Bar-

badoes for a while last winter. My visit was private and unof- ficial, -but I had the opportunity of hearing from a number of peo- ple who were In a position to tell me, about the progress of this

movement.

The task today in the West In- dies, of knitting ten Islands to- gether and forming a Caribbean Nation, -has much in common

with what we had to do over ninety years ago in Canada. There are striking differences, of course, but in both cases the problem was to bring together widely scat- bered units, with great contrasts in their size and economic life. The ten islands of the West In- dies are separated by hundreds of miles of water; our communities were divided by vast stretches of

. .and many of the country’s leading

manufacturing concerns are re-

in common which made us one. They will, I am sure, achieve the same success in the West Indies. They look to us as a sister na- tion in the Commonwealth. We should, and I believe do, look on them with the understanding and the knowledge becoming to an el- der sister, Here in the Atlantic Provinces, you know a good deal about our West Indian kinsmen, ‘because you have had, for many generations, so many links with their communities. BROAD INTERESTS

What I -have just been saying

may seem irrelevant, but a Can-

adian Club does not, and should not, limit its interests too narrow- ly. Although it is primarily con- cerned with Canada, it uses the word “Canadian” in its broadest context, and this naturally in- cludes our relations with a sis- t-er nation in the Commonwealth.

I am always happy in the pre- cincts of a Canadian Club. Per- haps one reason is that the Clubs and I have a good deal in com- mon. Your functions are, in some respects,not unlike those of the Governor- General. One of your principal objectives is to extend and deepen knowledge of Canada As I travel about and speak on . different occasions, I feel it is also one of my duties to pass on my impressions of what I see and hear wherever I go, and play what humble part I can in promoting knowledge of ourselves and our ‘countny. We have —— you and I -— Sllllllal‘ opportunities and obliga- tions and, indeed, we have tl\e same restrictions, because there are some subjects which Canad- Ian Clubs and Governors-General _ do not discuss! NINETY-FIVE CLUBS

There are now over ninety-five Canadian Clubs in Canada. with _ thirty - eight thousand members. They are increasing all the time. I have had the pleasure of meet- ing several Cmbs which had not _ been in existence for long.’Yours is in this category. One of the

understand, since suspended its activities. I hope you will not con- nect the two events —- my address and the Club's demise — too closely!

I have some views of my own on the objects of the Canadian Club. I think they are shared by a large number, of members. I do not think that the Clubs exist simply for the purpose of provid- ing a platform for itinerant spea- kers, for acting as a sort of lec- ture bureau. That is an impor- tant function, undoubtedly, but there is something that lies deep- er than‘ that, and it is reflected in the ideas of -the very farseeing young men that started the Can- adian Club movement nearly sev- enty years ago. I am sure you have often heard the story of that little meeting in an office in Ham- ilton ln the early nineties, which led to the formation of -the first Canadian Club. These men felt that national sentiment in Canada was at a dangerously low ebb and that the new nation was in peril. The great moment of Con- federation and the enthusiasm that it generated had passed and Canada was in grip of a depres- sion—an economic depression- but also what might be called a spiritual depression :— even more serious. The group of men that I am talking about held the view that what. was required was not a discussion of tariffs and taxes, exports and /trade balances only, ‘but that what Canada really need- ed primarily, was a belief in it- self. You can, of course, never an- praise the effect of a movement like this; you cannot measure it or express it in figures, but I am quite sure that the first Can- adian Clubs played no unimpor- tant part in reviving in Canada the self-reliance without which no

new Clubs that I talked to has, I’

mass movement; like so many things that matter, it is a reflec- tion of what the individual feels. Whatever a nation thinks, what- ever may be its ambitions, its fears, its convictions, all that stems from the individual citizen. MANY IMMIGRANTS

I am reminded that tomorrow we celebrate what we have come to call “citizenship day", the day on which we are asked to ponder the privileges and responsibilities of being citizens of Canada, whe- ther we may have‘ been born citi- zens, or whether we may have ac- quired nationality. It is a striking fact that since the end of the last war we have received in Canada over one million, seven hundred thousand immigrants from all parts of t-he world. This is about a tenth of our total population. The s e people who have come f r 0 In other brought with them much to en- rich our life.

,If we ask ourselves what citi- ’

zenship means, I would like to

suggest that for one thing it

means willingness to make the newcomers feel that they belong to our country, and that it is their country too. By asking them to become good Canadians, we, ourselves, become better citizens. This is something which Canadian Clubs should not neg- lect; it seems to me that it falls well within the scope of our dut- ies and interests. So one of the objects of Canadian clubs, I would suggest, is to welcome new Canadians and help them to fit into our national life. And here may I say — and it has been said before —— that we in Can- ada should be glad to receive the s kills and cultural traditions which the newcomers bring with them. We are a country which is happy to have variety among our people and, far from asking them to develop standardized habits, we welcome those differences which enrich our country and make it more interesting. BE OURSELVES

Let me mention another object, and that is to help to keep Can- ada Canadian. In this I am afraid I appear to be opening up a big subject, but I want only to say one or two things. I have said them before, but I am going to say them again! You haven’t got to make very exhaustive re- searches to realize that we have practices and customs which be- long to us in a very special way. When people come to see us from other countries, they naturally look for —- and expect to find - simply a reflection (and perhaps not a very good one) of what they leftbehind. When it is pos- sible, what we do should have a Canadian character. If we try to be ourselves, the visitor, will re- spect us the more. No one looks his best in somebody else’s clothes! LITERATURE AND ART

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encourage activities in literature and the arts. Here is a field in which there is much to hearten us. More is happening in Canada in this sphere today than ever before, and activity is increas- ing. We apparently have made up our minds that effort in drama literature, m u sic, painting and ballet, not only deserve our sup- port when they are Canadian in character, but deserve our full- est support when they are both Canadian and good. The example which naturally comes to one’s mind is the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, which is not only distinguished by national stand- ards, or continental standards, but, by world standards. There is another Festival which will open this summer an Vancouver which promises to have great dis-

ROBERT DYMENT

Robert Paul Dyment, was born‘ at Northam in 1939, the son of‘ Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dy-ment. He received his early education in Springhill school, Summerside High, and Horton Academy. He entered P.W.C. in the fall of ’56.‘ This year at .P.W.C, he was pho- tographer for the ‘Times” and “We1s‘h«men.”

Robert’s plans for the future are undecided as yet.

tinction -~ A general Festival of the Arts. organized as an annual event. Like the great Edinburgh Festival whichit will resemble, it provides a rich and varied fare, representing all the arts that can be included in such an event. We should welcome the initiative and imagination of the people in Van- couver who have made this Festi- val possible. It will have far- reaching effects in Canada.

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which exists for no other purpose than to widen our knowledge of our country and our belief it it. As far as I am aware——and if I am correct, it is an interesting fact — there is nothing resem- bling the Canadian Club in any other country. There are no En- glish Club in England; French Clubs in France; American Clubs in the United States, Canadian Clubs were founded here and have multiplied and prospered because there was a need for, them. There still is an important role for them to play. Our vast country, with its relatively small and scattered population, calls for what the Canadian Club can give it. So the responsibility of this Club and similar bodies else- where is no trifling thing. May I wish you well.

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