The Archive · 1936

By SAPAJOU THE NEGUS: "AND THEY CA LI THIS WESTERN CIVILIZATION"

mining, manufacturing, Ci: zda has activities of considerable value and importance to herself and the nations which do business with her. She is a good customer in return. Her shipping trade is enormous and Montreal Is the second largest port in the whole of the American continent. And British people, proud as they are of Canada's remarkable success in solving intensely difficult racial and linguistic problems, gratefully recall on this Dominion Day Canadian comradeship in times of the Empire's need. This month the King will salute Canadian valour in unveiling the Memorial of Vimy Ridge. He will be surrounded by Canadians specially making the pilgrimage as the guests of France, the country with whom Canada has older and no less honourable ties thin with Great! Britain, On that and on all other grounds of common Imperial concern, Canada's Day is hailed with the time-honoured greeting: "Many Happy Returns."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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