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of scattered English-speaking parents attending the 

 French schools. It is rather how to stem the move- 

 ment itself and hold our two races as one associated 

 people. Quebec, apart from any question of popula- 

 tion, holds the future of the Dominion in her hands. 

 Bj the incorporation of Ungava she is rendered per- 

 manently our premier Province in extent. She is our 

 greatest in resources. That province is the coming in- 

 dustrial centre of this continent. Of Canada's water- 

 power, estimated at twenty-six million horse-power, 

 Quebec is reported to possess seventeen million.* A 

 mutual understanding and collaboration is needed for 

 the efficient development of material resources of such 

 magnitude, as well as for the political and social well- 

 being of our common country. 



Shall we not all be oxe race, shaping and wielding the nation? 

 la not our country too broad for the schisms which shake 

 petty lands? 

 Yea, we shall join in our might, and keep sacred our firm fed- 

 eration, 

 Shoulder to shoulder arrayed, hearts open to hearts, hands 

 to hands! t 



Nor is the problem confined to Quebec. In old Glen- 

 garry, known to fame, the majority of the population is 

 French-speaking. Father Ix' Pel, speaking at the Parle 

 FranQais Congress in Quebec in Jime last, is reported 

 in the press as having stated that there are now 250,000 

 French-sj)f'akiii£r p<'ople in Ontario, and that there are 



• .Mr. R. K. Younx, Suporintcndtnt of Dominion Ruilway 

 Lands, In tf;rHtimoiiy before the Forests, Waterways and Water- 

 powers CommlsHion. Press report. 



t Barry Stratlon. " 85." 



