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of scattered English-speaking parents attending the 

 French schools. It is rather how to stem the move- 

 ment itself and hold our two races as one associated 

 people. Quebec, apart from any question of popula- 

 tion, holds the future of the Dominion in her hands. 

 By the incorporation of Ungava she is rendered per- 

 manently our premier Province in extent. She is our 

 greatest in resources. That province is the coming in- 

 dustrial centre of this continent. Of Canada's water- 

 power, estimated at twenty-six million horse-power. 

 Quebf-.'.' is reported to possess seventeen million.* A 

 mutual understanding and collaboration is needed for 

 the emcient development of material resources of such 

 magnitude, as well as for the political and social well- 

 being of our common country. 



Shall we not all be O.XE race, shaping and wielding the nation? 

 Is not our country too broad for the schisms which shake 



petty lands? 



Yea, we shall join in our might, and keep sacred our firm fed- 

 eration, 



Shoulder to shoulder arrayed, hearts open to hearts, hands 

 to hands !f 



Nor is the problem confined to Quebec. In old Glen- 

 garry, known to fame, the majority of the population is 

 French-speaking. Father Le Bel, speaking at the Parle 

 Frangais Congress in Quebec in June last, is reported 

 in the press as having stated that there are now 250,000 

 French-speaking people in Ontario, and that there are 



* Mr. R. E. Young, Superintendent of Dominion Railway 

 Lands, in testimony before the Forests, Waterways and Water- 

 powers Commission. Press report. 



t Barry Stratton, " 85." 



