gth famtary, igi2. 



Professor J. A. Lindsay, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., President, 

 in the Chair. 



FROM MONTREAL TO VICTORL^ : AN IMPRESSION 

 OF CANADA." 



By Mr. William Hunter, J. P. 



(Abstract.) 



The Chairman, who was cordially received, said the lecture 

 that night was on a subject that he was sure interested everybody, 

 and he was glad to see such a large audience. Canada, as they 

 all knew, although not actually one of the oldest of their colonies 

 — he believed the honour belonged to Newfoundland — was very 

 nearly the oldest and probably the most important. The conquest 

 of Canada about the middle of the eighteenth century was one of 

 the most romantic stories in British history. They knew that 

 Canada to-day was a country of enormous possibilities and one 

 with a brilliant future before it. It had been fortunate in having 

 a succession of great men amongst its statesmen and politicians, 

 and Canada had solved may difificult problems. It had solved 

 the problem of how two nations differing in blood and in interest 

 and in creed had learned to live in friendship and unity and 

 pursue ends for the common good. Mr. Hunter, who was to 

 address them, had made a lengthened stay in the country and had 

 studied it from many points of view. He was quite sure the 

 lecture would be full of interest and instruction, 



Mr. Hunter, who was heartily received, said the entire 

 population of Canada was hardly equal to that of London, The 

 total number of emigrants who went to the Dominion during the 

 five years ending December 31st, 1910, was 1,127,000. Of that 



