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self-confidence born of the absolute freedom of- the 

 first three years of life. 



The roads in Canada are interesting, and historical 

 in the finest sense of the word, because indissolubly 

 one with the history of man — of the men who tramp 

 them, or grade them through all manner of difficulty 

 with the dogged determination of those who refuse 

 to look behind. Of all great examples of this 

 making of the way in Canada, the grade of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway just beyond Glazier House 

 in the heart of the Rockies seems supreme ; certainly 

 it is the most impressive, that winding, curling, 

 persistent, indomitable man-made way, hanging by 

 its teeth for the defence of its life to the great 

 obstacle. In climbing or descending that splendid 

 pass the Spirit of Power always seems to hover in 

 the hush of the shadowed silent hole in the hills, as 

 though God breathed eternal thanks for the patience 

 and power of mankind in the place where just a 

 man or so made a great way for the race. 



And by the southern shore of the eastern lake of 

 Fort Qu'Appelle there runs another conquering 

 ribbon of a road, graded into the hip of those fertile 

 heights which mark the awe and ache of distance 

 between the shadowed sheet of water, stirred with 

 the restless pain and longing of the temporal why, 

 and that far-off shrine where the sun stands for 

 power, and the moon for peace, and " stars leap out 

 through blackest night." Winding along until it 

 reaches an open sweep of hill-sheltered coulee, where 

 the Indians and the English alike love to pitch their 

 tents, the lake-shore way suddenly pulls itself 

 together, tightens teeth with a snap, and climbs the 

 vertical wall of " Hairpin Bend " without looking 



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