Excerpt from George Brown: The Globe Confederation Across the Atlantic fifty years is a brief period in the life of a nation, in the New World it is long enough to see the birth of great provinces and the development of popul ous cities. Between 1867 and 1917 Canada has materially made great progress, politically its position is worse, for it still drags the clerical chain to snap which was the motive of the constitutional change 50 years ago; The English tourist who views our cities from an auto and speeds from ocean t) ...
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Excerpt from George Brown: The Globe Confederation Across the Atlantic fifty years is a brief period in the life of a nation, in the New World it is long enough to see the birth of great provinces and the development of popul ous cities. Between 1867 and 1917 Canada has materially made great progress, politically its position is worse, for it still drags the clerical chain to snap which was the motive of the constitutional change 50 years ago; The English tourist who views our cities from an auto and speeds from ocean t) ocean in a Pullman, is astonished by what he sees and gushes over the prosperity of the Dominion. If the visitor is in English public life, with the perplexing prob lem of Ireland in mind, he jumps to the conclusion that the flourishing condition which astonishes him, is the'result of Canada's having adopted the federal system of government, and on returning home he will declare, with the assured confidence of one who has been an eyewitness, that the Im perial parliament must take a leaf from Canada's exper ience. This illustrates the danger of generalizing from imperfect data. Had the visitor compared'the rural sec tions of Quebec with those of Ontario, had he even traversr ed a concession of farmers who are Catholic and turned into another of Protestant farmers, he would have seen that a change in constitution had not helped the one or affect ed the other. That Canada's progress is due to the indus try, thrift, and enterprise of the majority (f its inhabitants, and to the unfolding of great natural resources, the visitor no more perceives than do those unreflecting speakers and writers who ascribe the advances of the past fifty years to the b.n.a. Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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