180 WOMEN IN CANADA 



requirements necessary to stem the Rural Exodus, 

 Canada has far surpassed the Motherland. Her 

 women are not only giving their best thought and 

 many hours of work to remedying weaknesses that 

 already exist, but are also, like true pioneers, looking 

 to the future. They see before them additional 

 difficulties when the Great War is ended ; they 

 know that then many conditions will alter, more 

 women will have to earn a living, fewer men will 

 be there to work, a large number of strangers will 

 go to live in Canada, and that therefore they must 

 now safeguard their country, keeping it Canadian 

 and British, remembering always that unity is 

 strength. 



They are not leaving these questions to settle 

 themselves or postponing work that they hope to 

 complete ; they long ago laid a solid foundation 

 and it is only necessary now for them, during these 

 anxious months of waiting, to add propelling force 

 to machinery which is already in existence. It is, 

 I feel sure, a mere question of making their work 

 known, of pointing out how necessary it is for us to 

 copy so brilliant an example, and then the daughters 

 of England will rise up and follow upon similar lines 

 in an endeavour to improve social and educational 

 matters in rural districts. 



Very far-reaching is the influence exercised by 

 women, for only in so far as a country reverences its 

 womanhood does it attain permanent greatness. 

 If its ideal type of woman is a high one, morals are 

 pure and a noble standard of conduct is the result. 

 We hear how the women of Germany are at the 

 moment fired by patriotism and a sense of dangers 



