16 THE EMIGRA TION Q UES TION. 



denied to the former of moulding aliens into contented, 

 law-abiding Canadian citizens. Witness the French, who 

 are Canadians par excellence. Witness also the old 

 country settlers, who are more Canadian than the Cana- 

 dians. 



There can be no doubt that an immigrant ought to 

 identify himself thoroughly with the country of his 

 adoption ; the more he does so the better he will succeed. 

 The Englishman or the Scotchman who carries his in- 

 sular habits about with him wherever he goes, and loses 

 no opportunity of sneering at everything colonial, always 

 remains a nobody. He has left one country behind him, 

 and is too insular to attach himself to the land he honours 

 with his presence. This is specially absurd in Canada, a 

 country in many respects more English than England. 

 But the men who do this are the exception, not the rule. 

 Grumbling is an Englishman's privilege, and I have 

 heard them exercise it unsparingly in Canada; they 

 " condemn " the climate, the people, the mu?quitoes, 

 everything Canadian. They want to get back to old 

 England. They go back, and they find they cannot live 

 there at all. They have become Canadians insensibly 

 and against their will as it were. Much as they wanted 

 to go home, they are twice as anxious to get back again to 

 Canada. The following are among the reasons for this : 



1. Any good man can be a somebody in Canada. 



2. Any man can become a landed proprietor there. 



3. There are fewer class prejudices and more friendli- 

 ness and sociability than in an old country. 



4. The climate, though severe, is infinitely more bracing, 



s', and eniovablp. 



