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LANDSCAPE GOODERICH ROBERTS
Dominion Galleries
IN THE FOREST STANLEY COSGROVE
Canada has never made a great ceremony or parade of her citizenship
and many perhaps regret that she did not do so, but all are glad that her
citizenship today is a separate, individual and prized privilege carrying its
own certificate, harmonising the pride of Canadian nationhood with the
ancient and honourable badge of a British subject.
Canada was founded on a union of two great races. It is today the only
civilisation where the so-called Anglo-Saxon and the Latin live together in
equal citizenship and national unity. Our nation was then founded on tolerance’
| and reconciliation.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Catholic province of lower
Canada was the first, in the British Empire at least, to remove all political
disabilities from Jewish citizens. And in the ancient days the Protestant
legislature of upper Canada, although the law said it might do so, never
placed any restrictions on citizens of the Catholic faith. A fine tolerance then
springs from our earliest memories.
| And we know that a nation is a nobler thing than a state or a race, and that
the doctrine of racial superiority is so often but a refuge for wickedness. We
| have learnt the wisdom and the truth of the fine saying of the French philo-
| sopher that the Good Lord has written one sentence of His thought on the
| cradle of every race.
| Our country is certainly the largest space over tamed by a few million men
| for the peaceful and orderly use of its citizens. Amongst those citizens there
| is perhaps as much variety as will be found in any land on earth, and yet, out
| of that variety and diversity we have found unity.
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