stantially each year. In 1921 it was estimated by officers 

 in charge of the ten parks that visitors during the season 

 totalled 150,700. An analysis of this traffic reveals that 

 from 50 to 60 per cent of the travel to the resorts of the 

 Rockies is from foreign countries, the total number of 

 foreign visitors to the parks of the Rockies in that year 

 being approximately 50,000. Allowing an average expen- 

 diture of $300 for each foreign visitor, this travel represents 

 an indirect revenue to the country of $15,000,000. 

 Capitalized on a basis of a five per cent dividend it means 

 that the mountain parks alone are worth $300,000,000 to 

 the people of Canada, not taking into account the money 

 the parks keep at home by providing Canadians with 

 unequalled recreation and pleasure grounds or the direct 

 revenue derived from park licenses, etc., which in the same 

 year amounted to over $81,000. The total appropriations 

 for all parks last year was $720,000, or the entire cost of 

 maintenance and development was less than one-quarter 

 of one per cent the capitalized value of foreign tourist 

 traffic. The total expenditure for national parks since 

 1896 has been a little over $5,000,000, or in the 25 years 

 a little more than one-third of the foreign revenue which 

 the mountain parks brought into the country last year. 



To maintain and increase this traffic the construction 

 and constant upkeep of good roads is necessary, and the 

 Dominion is endeavoring to make her expansive domain 

 the equal of older countries in this regard. To this end, 

 in the five-year period ending 1924, Federal and provincial 

 governments are expending the sum of $50,000,000 for 

 this purpose, and at the expiration of this period doubtless 

 the grants will be extended to keep pace with the growing 

 traffic. Each year additional roads are being opened up, 

 giving access to fresh points of beauty and interest, while 

 tourists returning to their own countries do Canada's 

 advertising and come back on the following year in the 

 company of others whom they have fired with a desire to 

 see Canada's wonders. 



McGill and French Study 



This summer McGill University at Montreal 

 resumed its holiday course in the French 

 language for the first time since the interruption 

 caused by the outbreak of the war. Students 

 attended from all parts of the American conti- 

 nent, from points as distant from Montreal as 

 Virginia, Kansas and British Columbia, and of 

 the eighty-three students to register fifty-one 

 were from across the international border. A 

 Minneapolis student took the first honors in the 

 examination which terminated the course, and 

 of six others to pass with distinction two were 

 from the Republic. 



Closely following the closing of the course 

 and the dispersion of the students came the 

 offer of a French scholarship by the French 

 government for the year 1922-23 for a student 

 of McGill University. The scholarship, which is 

 for the sum of 6,000 francs with an additional 

 1,000 francs for travelling expenses, has been 

 placed at the disposal of the Principal of the 

 University "in recognition of the considerable 

 efforts effected by McGill University toward 

 the development of the French language." A 

 subsequent announcement contained notification 

 of the extension of scholarships of similar 

 amounts to Montreal University and Laval 

 University at Quebec in Quebec province and 

 Toronto University and Ottawa University in 

 Ontario. 



The French government's award is a well- 



merited tribute to what McGill has been 

 accomplishing in the promotion of the study of 

 the French language on the American continent, 

 and the Montreal university is corning, to a 

 greater extent every year, to be regarded more 

 widely as America's centre of French erudition. 

 McGill has long had a fine appreciation of the 

 value of the inclusion of French in a University 

 course, of the economic value of this linguistic 

 accomplishment, and the beneficial effect of 

 Latin influence upon the predominating types of 

 the continent. It has been peculiarly fitted to 

 work to this end an English university, situated 

 in the heart of the Canadian metropolis, and in 

 a province where eighty per cent of the popula- 

 tion employ the French tongue and whose boast 

 it is they have maintained the language through 

 all the centuries in all its purity. 



The Post-Graduate Courses in Francs 



The scholastic courses at McGill and the new 

 scholarship France has donated to the University 

 will have the effect of further cementing the 

 already firm ties which already bind Canada and 

 the French republic. Not alone through her 

 early history and the presence in Canada of 

 nearly three million people conversing in the 

 tongue of Moliere and existing in the utmost 

 harmony with their English brothers, is Canada 

 bound to France, but through the stirring days 

 of more recent times, which gave each people a 

 clearer and more sympathetic understanding of 

 the other. The permanency of this understand- 

 ing is assured. 



As the yet firmer cohesion of the British 

 Empire is effected bv the system of Rhodes 

 scholarships, the young men who are the leaders 

 of Dominion thought and action to-morrow 

 given an understanding of other peoples and 

 their problems through scholastic intercourse, 

 so is the clearer mutual sympathy of France 

 and Canada being brought about by a similar 

 interchange. Through action taken by various 

 provincial legislatures Canadian graduates have 

 the opportunity of taking post-graduate courses 

 in France. Most of the Canadian provinces 

 have provided for a permanent annual appro- 

 priation of $6,000 to cover five yearly scholar- 

 ships of $1,200 each, and numerous Canadian 

 students are now in France taking various 

 courses, art, literature, forestry or agriculture. 



Technical Education in New Brunswick 



By Fletcher Peacock, Director of Vocational Education, 

 Frediricton 



Vocational Education as a public service on this 

 continent is new and in New Brunswick it has just arrived. 

 The Vocational Education Act of the province, which has 

 been in operation only two years, is a comprehensive one, 

 including agricultural, industrial, commercial, fisheries 

 and home economics training in its scope. It is adminis- 

 tered by a provincial board appointed by the government, 

 and local vocational committees appointed by the local 

 school boards. The central board includes the Chief Super- 



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