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Westminster, York, St. Albans, Canterbury, Salis- 

 bury, and the whole glorious group of the historic 

 and beautiful cathedrals, abbeys, and churches of the 

 United Kingdom, in addition to the treasures 

 tradition has stored in Europe at the gate. There 

 is not a church of the Anglican Church in Canada 

 which could be named as an offering to the Church 

 worthy of those who enjoy its gift from the past. 

 Millions are spent freely on the great Provincial 

 Houses of Parliament in Canada. Miles of patriotic 

 and appreciative sentiment overflowed the British 

 newspapers when the hope of Canada's noble contri- 

 bution to the Navy was received, and, although 

 that hope has not yet passed into act, the gift of a 

 million to Regina to build the cathedral for which 

 the Church of England in Saskatchewan has so 

 ardently hoped and prayed would still be an appro- 

 priate thank-offering from those who love and 

 value and really, if it came to the point, would 

 quite simply and willingly give their lives to 

 spare our sacred treasures of the past from 

 the mad destruction of war. In England too it 

 should be more clearly emphasized and understood 

 that it is absolutely impossible for the Church of 

 England in Canada to keep pace with the hundreds 

 of thousands of immigrants who flock to the prairies 

 from all the ends of the earth. It was to meet the 

 special claim of this ever-growing need that the 

 Archbishop's Western Canada Fund was started in 

 1910 after a conference between the Archbishops of 

 Canterbury, York, and Rupertsland during the Pan- 

 Anglican gathering in 1909. The Rev. Douglas 

 Ellison and Archdeacon Boyd, leaders of proven 

 constructive genius, were selected for the organiza- 

 tion of the work which was to break the trail of the 



