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sion of their city and equally proud of its 

 present status as well. A community that 

 works together for the common good as earn- 

 estly as the citizens of Vancouver and Winni- 

 peg are doing, is bound to grow in wealth and 

 influence. 



I was fortunate enough to meet the Hon. H. 

 H. Stevens, member of the Dominion Parlia- 

 ment for Vancouver — and, by-the-way, he is 

 the representative in Parliament of the most 

 populous constituency in the Dominion of 

 Canada. His career will fittingly illustrate 

 in itself the opportunities of advancement in 

 wealth, position, influence, and standing in the 

 community that await the men or women who 

 realize when "opportunity knocks at their 

 door" and who have the wisdom to embrace it. 



Mr. Stevens is comparatively a young man, 

 and but sixteen years ago was driver of a stage 

 that ran from Siccamus — a station on the 

 C. P. R. — to Vernon, a small town at the head 

 of Okanogan Lake in British Columbia. 

 The Earl of Aberdeen, formerly Governor- 

 General of Canada, owns large tracts of land 

 on the shores of this famed lake, where cattle 

 raising is conducted on one side, and fruit 

 growing on a large scale is carried on upon 

 the other. 



