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...Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...
Last week the Canadian Rockies around Banff, Alberta, rang with the slogan* of Scottish clans and the skirl of their bagpipes. Descendants of the early settlers from all over the Dominion gathered for their third annual Highland Gathering and Music Festival. They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling. They contended in throwing the caber, putting the stone. But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes...
...some 263,000 have been sent. Too many have turned out n'er-do-wells and won't-works. Today there is a swelling, angry chorus of Canadian protest against what is claimed to be the Mother Country's policy of turning her daughter Dominion into a dumping ground for loafers. It was to patch up the Empire's mother-daughter quarrel that big, likable, keen-witted James Henry ("Jim") Thomas arrived in Ottawa last week from London, where he is Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords, and Minister in Charge of Unemployment...
...Ottawa last week may be stated thus: 1) Canada is smarting today at the certainty that she will lose much of her export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada should choose to put a high tariff on "non-British coal...
Here is the very crux of a matter which is vital because the continued refusal of British Governments to grant India independence within the Empire (that is "dominion status" similar to Canada's) has always been based on the ground that Indians are not yet ready to govern themselves. Naturally the degree of India's "readiness" is a matter of opinion, and here is a big, well ordered, meaty book from which opinion can be digested...