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General Montgomery Moore, and Bishop Courtney, of 

 Nova Scotia, were good enough to assist us in Hali- 

 fax ; while everywhere the members of that admirable 

 institution, " The Brotherhood of St. Andrew," ex- 

 tended their generous friendship to us. In Montreal, 

 Sir Donald Smith, Governor of the Hudson Bay 

 Company, who himself had spent thirteen years in 

 charge of one of the Company's stations, presented 

 a steamer to the Montreal Committee, to enable the 

 work to be more efficiently carried out. Dr. Rod- 

 dick, of Montreal, also presented the Mission with a 

 sailing boat for Battle Harbour, called the Urelia 

 McKinnon. His Excellency the Governor-General, 

 Lord Aberdeen, was good enough to preside at the 

 meeting at Ottawa, and express his sympathy with 

 the work. Indeed, for real interest and sympathy 

 in every philanthropic work, and it is grand to know 

 in every distinctively missionary work also, Canada 

 is fortunate in possessing in both Lord and Lady 

 Aberdeen examples of a kind alas far too rare in 

 these so-called Christian days. A meeting was also 

 held in Winnipeg, whither we went on a holiday 

 trip, and here the Lieut.-Governor, Sir John Schultze, 

 presided, and, with Lady Schultze, expressed great 

 interest in the work. Samuel Blake, Esq., Q.C., so 

 well known in Canada for his broad-minded Chris- 

 tian sympathies, was our chairman at Toronto. Our 

 days at Toronto possessed for me an interest never 

 experienced before. We fell on a great Missionary 

 Convention, and from Mr. Warzawiak, of New York, 



