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 lege to be nurtured. Our present is a consequence of that 

 past. We live to-day under the grateful shade of the tiee 

 which nur forefathers planted. We reap in peace to-day the 

 harvest, the seeds of which they sowed in toil and blood. 



In the third place I would thank the members of the 

 Historical Society and the Countess of Selkirk ; I would 

 thank them ou behalfi:)f the natives of the country, if I might 

 be permitted to do so, for rearing this monument to perpetu- 

 ate the memory of an event in our country's history. This is 

 indeed a pleasing evidence of their interest in and of their 

 close identification with the history of their adopted country. 

 I will say no more, as there are other representatives of those 

 connected with the event we commemorate who may wish to 

 say a word or two. As I look around me, however, a thought 

 comes to me. This monument erected in the parish in which 

 it is my privilege to minister, and standing in my pathway as 

 I go around with the message of peace which passes all 

 understanding, wall be a constant reminder to me of what we 

 owe to the God of our fathers who has spoken His peace to 

 this land, which was once the warpath of the plumed and 

 painted savage of our plains. " Seven Oaks," once the scene 

 of a battle bitter in its cruel intent, is now the scene of a 

 battle benign in its benevolence, the scene of a contest in the 

 civilities of a cultured life, the arena for the display of those 

 amenities of social life which make it the meeting place, not 

 of hostile factions but of hospitality's friends, the rendezvous 

 where old times keep ever green the memories and friendships 

 of the past, and where new-comers receive a warm welcome to 

 the land of their adoption. 



U. S. Consul Tajdor remarked that he attended this 

 interesting occasion with the assurance that he should enjoy 

 the luxury of being a listener to President McBeth, Governor 

 Schultz and Secretary Bell, and not a haunted man, oppressed 

 by an engagement or a call to speak. Still he would endea- 

 vor to second what has been so well said of two Selkirk ladies. 

 Firstly, he referred to Cicely Louisa, Countess of Selkirk, and 

 the last of the title he regretted to add, whose visit to the 



