Two Country Walks in Canada Author:Arnold Haultain Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: six."1 "Weather permitting" is a phrase but rarely heard in Canada. But my walk was over. It was one I would not have exchanged for many another taken under m... more »ore genial skies. Of the future of this great Dominion it is always as tempting to speculate as it is difficult to prophesy. In its early days it must have been a thorn in the flesh of the home Government. The perpetual and irrepressible squabbles between English and French nothing seemed to allay. Governor after Governor tried policy after policy, but in vain. But this is ancient history. The struggle for political existence has caused that spectre to dig its own grave. Or, if a few vague and shadowy phantoms still flit across the political vision—phantoms such as the Manitoba Schools question, the Bourassa-Monet objurgations on the sending of the Contingents to South Africa, Mr. Bourassa's piquant articles,1 the peppery speeches of Mr. Tarte, and Quebec's quixotic unwillingness to join in a scheme of Imperial Defence, are some slight indications that it still walks—there are who think that a morn of perfect racial and religious harmony, nevertheless, is not far off. A Frenchman is Prime Minister of a people of whom only one-third are French. Nothing much now is to be feared from the duality of races. They have long since agreed to live in amity, recognising the fact that amity is necessary to prosperity. 'Mr. Robert F. Stupart, in the "Handbook of Canada," published by the Publication Committee of the Local Executive [of the British Association for the Advancement of Science]. Toronto, 189T, p. 78. As to what might happen were war to break out between France and England, that, it must be admitted, is a delicate question. The French-Canadian is French, socially, linguistically, and sentimentally French; there is ...« less