Quebec has long realized the value of the motion 

 picture in teaching, especially agriculture, and it is being 

 used very extensively in all phases of provincial government 

 work. Nova Scotia has its motion picture bureau and 

 has produced a wide variety of films depicting Nova 

 Scotia's charming life and modern and advanced methods 

 of agriculture and horticulture. The motion picture 

 work of the University of Alberta is well known all over 

 the province, for besides providing films of an educational 

 nature it distributes films of foreign travel and entertain- 

 ment in the rural districts. 



A Small but Growing Industry 



It is significant to note, in view of the future of the 

 industry, that all these films are Canadian produced and 

 manufactured, the first stage in the growth of a purely 

 Canadian industry. The motion picture, as provided 

 by the various governments and universities, has revolu- 

 tionized rural life, and in conjunction with the subtlest 

 education gives a deal of wholesome entertainment. The 

 Canadian-made film is enlisted in the aid of the farmer, 

 the student, the salesman, the business man, and its use is 

 daily increasing. 



The railways of Canada have been remarkably to 

 the fore in keeping abreast of the times and issuing motion 

 pictures illustrative of Canadian life and resource. In 

 this manner are the great opportunities of Canada as a 

 land of the future visualized, expansion induced to her 

 agriculture and industry, and the great natural resources 

 of the Dominion advertised broadcast. Tourist traffic is 

 created through the lure of Canada's pictured beauties, 

 and settlement encouraged through the reception of a 

 clearer understanding of benefits and conditions than 

 could otherwise be imparted. 



A new departure in Canadian steamship travel was 

 effected recently when the Canadian Pacific Steamships 

 inaugurated moving picture entertainments upon their 

 Atlantic vessels, using only films of Canadian manufacture, 

 for the main part depicting scenes of Dominion life and 

 activities. Three shows will be given on each voyage east 

 and westbound, not only entertaining the tourist and 

 traveller but educating Canada's new citizens to the life 

 of which they are coming to form a part. 



The move in the Canadian motion picture industry at 

 the present time, is to get away from dependence on other 

 countries for production and manufacture. Canada has 

 all the requisites for successful production but lacks the 

 capital necessary to any great expansion. A good begin- 

 ning has been made in a splendid kind of picture, and the 

 nucleus formed of a Canadian motion picture industry 

 will develop with Canada's increasing needs and demands, 

 offering many openings to those who will engage in it. 



The Welsh in Canada 



Generally considered the Welsh cannot be 

 termed a migratory people. Since when their 

 ancestors, the Celtic inhabitants of Britain, re- 

 tired into the fastnesses of the hills of Cambria, 

 the race has taken deep root there, loving their 

 beautiful, mountainous land with a passionate 

 affection, maintaining a national identity through 

 a retention of language and clinging to custom 

 and tradition, and with little thought of moving 

 elsewhere. 



With a population of little more than a million 

 and a half souls in a country of substantial area, 

 congestion or over-crowding has never been a 

 problem and the prime occasion of most emi- 

 grating movements has never threatened them. 

 The greater portion of the little land is devoted 

 to the pursuit of agriculture and a large section 

 of the population consists of farmers, happy 



and content on their little holdings. In certain 

 sections of the country, however, particularly 

 on the south coast, conditions differ vastly. Here 

 are to be found deposits of coal and other miner- 

 als, some of the most valuable in the world, 

 with dense industrial settlement about them. 

 The Welsh have always been renowned for their 

 qualities as miners, often considered the finest 

 in this pursuit in the world. 



There has nevertheless always been a cer- 

 tain exodus of the Welsh people from their land 

 and they are to be found in all parts of the world. 

 It is claimed that Welsh colonies, settling under 

 Willian Penn, first colonized Pennsylvania, and 

 the extensive mineral deposits of that State, com- 

 bined with the proclivity of the Welsh people 

 to follow the pursuit, lends support to the sup- 

 position. In Canada one might dwell long or 

 travel far, outside of the larger centres, without 

 meeting a Welshman, but when one native of 

 old Cambria is encountered there is assurance 

 of meeting many. The Welsh are a gregarious 

 race and in emigrating to Canada have settled 

 in .colonies, especially in the Western Provinces. 

 At the time of the 1911 census there were 

 24,848 Welsh in Canada. Since that time they 

 have arrived in the Dominion at an average rate 

 of about one thousand a year, so that Canada's 

 Welsh population at the present time may be 

 considered about 35,000. 



Admirable Characteristics 



According to Captain Griffith, Canadian 

 Immigration Agent in Wales, colony settlement 

 is claimed to be the most satisfactory method of 

 colonization for the people of this race, and the 

 manner in which these Cambrian settlements 

 thrive and the prosperity reached by thos 

 in existence would bear this out. They are 

 deeply attached to their native land, its history, 

 tradition, religion and language, and manage 

 to preserve the Welsh tongue in the attainment 

 of an eminent degree of bilingualism. They love 

 to meet weekly to have their religious services 

 conducted in Welsh. With a nationally inherited 

 love of music, the creative ability developed 

 to a high degree, and almost invariably with 

 superb voices, they cling to the musical gather- 

 ings established in their home land. By this 

 system of colonizing they can best preserve those 

 customs to which they are so attached and re- 

 tain those characteristics they do not wish to 

 lose. Even when living in the larger centres 

 where community life to the same extent is not 

 possible, they carry out the same ideas through 

 the formation of Welsh societies which exist all 

 over the Dominion. IP both Montreal and Van- 

 couver these associations have more than one 

 thousand members, whilst in Calgary and Ed- 

 monton each has in excess of eight hundred. 



Mining and agriculture being the two main 

 pursuits of their native land they are to be 

 found generally following the same activities. 





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