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NORTHERN PEAK LAWREN HARRIS
Collection: I. Dilworth |
Dominion Day —1 July 1949. |
L. W. Brockington, K.C.
On this first day of July Canada has set her table and decorated her house |
for a great birthday party. The table is one of the most bountiful in the world. |
The house is one of the three or four largest in the world. It is famous for its
welcome and kindliness to all men and women of goodwill who cross its threshold.
I can say those things for many years ago I was a stranger who was welcomed.
Of the twelve million children of the household about a half could trace
their origins to the British Isles, either directly or through forebears who
settled in the United States. About a third are descended from settlers who |
left Joan of Arc’s sweet land of France to find a home in the new world. The |
rest of the family are largely of German stock, of Ukrainian and Russian
descent, of Scandinavian, Dutch and Polish origin, in that order. Many
races of course meet in one family and many other peoples are mingled with
us. And to add colour and romance to our varied scene there are about 180,000
Indians and Eskimos which, I believe, and am told, is about the number of
those children of the ancient soil whom the first explorers found here in the |
days of long ago. |
Every year new citizens are taking their place with the children of the |
household. Last year settlers from the British Isles, displaced persons seeking |
and finding in their sorrow and their hopes a new place to call home, and |
relatives of Canadian settlers already citizens of Canada came to us in the |
number of 125,000. To the children born of her soil, Canada is of course the
dearest mother. To those who have sought, deserved and won a home in her
house of many mansions, she is a most kindly foster mother.
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