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I wish to say a word in recognition of the splendid hospitality 
with which the delegates, and especially those from the Old 
Country, were everywhere received. It seemed a point of honour 
amongst Canadians that they should sacrifice themselves in 
order that their visitors—whom they regarded as guests of the 
country— should enjoy their visit, and go back home with 
pleasant recollections of Canada and Canadians. Not only were 
we entertained at banquets and other public functions, but 
invitations to visit them in their homes nearly always followed, 
when new acquaintances were made, The Lecturer then des- 
cribed several typical features of the nature of the hospitality 
everywhere accorded to the delegates from the start to the finish 
of the trip. 
The Lecturer, who had a large variety of slides, then conducted 
the audience across the Continent, showing the farming districts 
of Ontario, Quebec, and the wheat-growing districts of the north- 
west territories and the ranching regions of Calgary. Further west 
the magnificent scenery of the Rockies, the Selkirks, the Thompson 
river and the Fraser Canyon to the Pacific coast, Vancouver 
and Victoria. A diversion in the return journey was made at 
Ravelstoke by a trip through the Kootenay district, the party 
sailing down Arrowlake to Robson, thence to Nelson sailing up 
the Kootenay lake rejoiming the train at Kootenay landing, 
crossing the Rockies by way of Crows’ Nest Pass, retapping the 
outward journey on the Canadian Pacific at Medicine Hat. 
Respecting the potentialities of Canada, the Lecturer said 
Canada has undoubtedly great natural advantages. She possesses 
harbours, rivers, lakes and land in abundance, She has bound- 
less forests of timber, and mountains under which are hidden 
treasures of untold mineral wealth if it could only be found. 
But with all her natural resources, the essential factor in the 
production of wealth, viz. :-men to do the work, is at present 
wanting. In Canada, as elsewhere, wealth can only be produced 
as the result of labour, and before the immense natural resources 
Canada undoubtedly possesses, can be transformed into available 
capital, the great disparity between the size of the country and 
the population must be considerably diminished. This can only 
be a work of time, and opportunities of doing pioneer work in 
Canada will remain when the present generation has passed 
away. In the meantime, Canada will have her ups and downs, 
her periods of prosperity and depression, exemplifying in her 
future, as in her past, the words of the poet Wordsworth :- 
** Alternate progress and impediment, and yet a growing prospect 
in the main.” As with the country, so with individuals in that 
growing prospect, the drama of life will be played with varying 
results. Inspired by love of adventure, perhaps more than by 
