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war, or even "rumors of war." It is true that 

 migrations have often occurred in ancient 

 times, but generally they were caused by the 

 forceful ejection of tribes, or communities of 

 people who were driven out from their home- 

 land, either because of religious or racial con- 

 tentions, or from some other compelling cause, 

 which made a wholesale evacuation of a large 

 population an absolute necessity for the pro- 

 tection of life, and the possible enjoyment of 

 peace and happiness. 



The migration into Canada has ever been 

 a peaceful one, and such may it always remain 

 in the future. It is not hard to predict that 

 the close intermingling and the intermarriage 

 of a conglomeration of many foreign races 

 will result in the creation of a new type of 

 manhood — a new cosmopolite race, having the 

 industrious and economical ideals and meth- 

 ods of these various foreign races blended 

 with the artistic, law-abiding, scholastic, opti- 

 mistic, self-reliant, and courageous ideals of 

 the descendants of the original English, 

 Scotch, Irish and French settlers of Canada. 



From the pen of the brilliant writer, Agnes 

 Dean Cameron, comes this timely paragraph : 

 "On the benches of one schoolroom in Ed- 

 monton I found children who had been born 



