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mentary vote. The strongest weapon she holds 

 in her professional equipment is her instinct for the 

 weak link in the chain, and this is backed by excellent 

 mental balance, wide experience, and impregnable 

 honesty. I found her enthusiastic about everything 

 connected with the expansion of resource for 

 women, and kindly and deeply interested in the 

 prospect of agriculture, in which she was theoreti- 

 cally well up. 



From her and Mrs. Lilian Graham, and Mrs. 

 Sherk of Fort William, I learned that Canadian 

 women had already taken up the matter of Home- 

 steads for Women with a deep sense of the injustice 

 of a law which, whilst seeking to secure the pros- 

 perity of the country in enriching the stranger, 

 ignores the claim of the sex which bore the brunt 

 of the battle in those early and difficult days when 

 every inch of our great wheat-garden of the North- 

 West had to be won with courage and held with 

 endurance. No pen can depict the fine part that 

 Woman played in the spade work of expansion in 

 Canada, although history throws many a search- 

 light over the past, which discovers her claim to an 

 equal share in the land which over a hundred years 

 ago she helped to win by travail and hold by toil. 



It is still among the pleasing traits of Canada 

 that " men in great place " are easy of access ; 

 throughout the Dominion there rules between man 

 and man a common respect for Time. When I 

 reached Ottawa Mr. Scott, the Commissioner of 

 Immigration, received me at once, told me his 

 full mind on some facts and conditions of immi- 

 grants and immigration, and listened to all I had 

 to say about women-farmers and homestead land. 



