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the supreme court of Canada, proposed 

 'The Dominion of Canada' in a happy 

 speech, which was worthy of the occasion 

 and was also noteworthy in that it was 

 his first public speech in British Colum- 

 bia since his elevation to the bench. He 

 preached the gospel of the solidarity of 

 Canada as demonstrated by the develop- 

 ments of the past few years, and accept- 

 ed the politicians' declaration that Can- 

 ada was a nation; but doubted whether 

 the average Canadian accepted all the re- 

 sponsibilities attaching to that status. 



'Do we realize how much of the bur- 

 den has been borne by other shoulders? 

 I cannot, of course, infringe upon politics 

 or political questions at all, but I am con- 

 vinced that Canadians will always do their 

 duty by their own country and by the 

 Empire, and will never be actuated by 

 the craven fear of being great.' 



Mr. G. H. Barnard, M. P., responded on 

 behalf of the Parliament of Canada, and 

 after dwelling upon the commercial and 

 national development of the Dominion, 

 asserted that it would ever be the pride 

 of Canadians to remain true to the tradi- 

 tions of the lands from which they 

 sprung. TTe was glad to be able to say 

 that the lumbermen of British Columbia 

 had found a better reception in Ottawa 

 within the jiast year than they liad in 

 previous years and promised them an 

 equally welcome reception whenever they 

 visited Ottawa again during the present 

 political regime. The people of British 

 Columbia recognized that the timber in- 

 dustry was the basis of this province's 

 prosperity and many of them, like him- 

 self, lived in hope that eventually all the 

 taxation of the province would be paid 

 by the timber industry and thus relieve 

 the ordinary man of the burden of taxa- 

 tion. Mr. Barnard paid tribute to the 

 great work done for forestry by the late 

 Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere, so long be- 

 loved in Canada and especially in British 

 Columbia, and was convinced that if the 

 late lieutenant-governor were alive to- 

 day no one would have been more proud 

 of the progress made in forestry in Can- 

 ada, and especially in British Columbia, 

 than he. 



The Province of B. C. 



The toast of 'The Province of British 

 Columbia' was proposed by Hon. Colin H. 

 Campbell, the minister of public works of 

 Manitoba, who expressed his sincere 

 pleasure in paying honor to the province 

 which by its firmness had created itself 

 the cement of the confederation. 



British Columbia had manifested its 

 faith in the unity of Canada in many 

 ways, but in none more substantial than 

 in its insistence upon the terms of the 

 confederation agreements. It had taught 

 Canada, as he hoped that Canada would 



teach the rest of the world, that a coun- 

 try must stand by its treaties and obli- 

 gations. British Columbia was the hope 

 of the Dominion of Canada. Who could 

 predict its future? What belonged to 

 British Columbia belonged to Canada as a 

 whole and he who would drive in the 

 wedge of cleavage was an enemy to the 

 country and to the empire. The country 

 had difiiculties to face, but it would face 

 them with confidence and with courage, 

 confident that so long as its destinies were 

 confided to the hands of men like Sir 

 Richard McBride they would be safe. 



The toast was honored with enthusiasm, 

 which was renewed as Sir Richard Mc- 

 Bride rose to respond. Tlie premier ad- 

 mitted ,his pleasure in having assisted 

 Manitoba to secure its rights and legiti- 

 mate claims, and promised that if there 

 was anything which Manitoba wanted, 

 ' even after it had now secured an At- 

 lantic seaboard,' the province of British 

 Columbia would be glad, now as ever, to 

 assist her or any other of the sister pro- 

 vinces. 



He might, he said, have dwelt upon the 

 fisheries, the minerals, the fruit-growing 

 possibilities and the climate of British 

 Columbia, but the visitors knew of all 

 these things. 



'I would like you to think of this pro- 

 vince,' said the premier, 'as the western 

 part of the Dominion, and not as a dis- 

 tinct ' portion of the federation of pro- 

 vinces. We who are entrusted with the 

 administration of affairs here feel that 

 we are not trustees for this province alone, 

 but that we are trustees for the whole 

 Canadian people, and that we have a 

 duty in the discharge of that trust to con- 

 sider the interests of our brother Canad- 

 ians dispersed east of the Rockies quite 

 as much as we are bound to consider the 

 interests of Canadians west of that moun- 

 tain range.' (Cheers.) 



The premier spoke of the consolidation 

 of the forest and land laws which had 

 been made by his colleague, the minister 

 of lands, which would be found to em- 

 body workable enactments, reasonable ar- 

 rangements and fair and equitable treat- 

 ment of all who might be interested in the 

 lumber industry. Those interested in the 

 work in this province looked Tint only for 

 inspiration, but for information to the 

 gathering of the Forestry Association in 

 the city. To the very extensive growth 

 of business in the province and its capital 

 there was now to be added all that was to 

 be expected from the completion and 

 operation of the Panama canal. The value 

 of this new highway of the world's com- 

 merce to the lumber industry could not be 

 overestimated, and nothing he could say 

 would be extravagant. 



