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} : \ Owing to the fact that Soon of "© Canada" be be opioved he National C ¥ 'With hind iid rd Werandon mt for fhe. * O Canada, glotious and free, We stand on guard, we stan] on guard for thee! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee! os wete received from sll parts of Canada that uniform by for the Celebrati Committee is using the W the Weir iis in its own publications. lk @ La Owe liomse, our wrive tui ; CY True patsior love inall thy sony' . oF El yes Eriglish of the Diamond Jubilee of Prime Mipisters and the ines for of Education of all the Provinces. 'were received that the ied the written 4 the late R. Stanley Weir, D.C,L., Recorder of Montreal, is being used the schools of all the Provinces, including the English-speaking sections of Quebec: In view of his, ih N {= EY large cents cipal fetes. 3 | country will be visited by ae [where the old folks will be chebred by the visits of the city dwelling sons and daughters and their families. Within limits unimagined in '67 is our country knit together by this com< paritively new method of transporta- tion and'we do not give full credit to the great good deri ed froin the con. stant interchange of thought and per- | sonal experience between country and city dwellers, The days of the "hick," MODERN INVENTIONS RELATED "70 OUR JUBILEE CELEBRATION ™ continent. 'Tmproved road-| weds and Our steamers, palaces of un- (reamed grandeur, constantly in touch The National Progre: Progress the Last |more general participation in Canada's Diamond Jubilee Celebration. Sixty Years Points to the Unfathomed Future WE HAVE COME FAR Only on Ourselves Our train services can and will speed the wanderer, In luxurious comfort, to the home-town. They will permit hin {with land by radio, bind our ports with the maritime centers of the world. For | will enable all the venturesome (and Soon no doubt 4 ifor general use), the air-ways have an- Trangportational Advances fl pihilated both distance and time, per- mitting, we hope, our nine pfovinces to send their felicitations to our|golden key in'ths C country's Capital on July 1st and en-|pire. abling these messages to start and to | will ring not only in the ears of the How Far We Go Depends to Sujoy the Dest of Zand sng Teost, reach their destination within the neople of Ottawa but will be heard by 3 brain farthest corners of the Dace of the one day; perhaps too al- the people of Canada from Halifax to tional laré 'gone, 'shel with "Innovation." eously join in the National Jubilations. opened by the Governor-General at Ot- tawa when our Gracious King in Lon- in' the big uh 8 old homes YE i "God Bless Them" al of our Em- The chimes of the new Carillon | nroeress Vancouver, from Pelee Point to the "Hayseed" 1s on the same Yukon and-if arrangements are car- ried out as planned they will rever The telephone gives the opportunity hetate throughout the Empire. rolling stock cut the time required for of instantaneous interchange of per- & such travel to a point not thought of 'sonally voiced messages of love and remembrance so that distance no long: er separidtes the people of our land. From coast to cogst the ether waves n> Epochal event in the. life of a re- : Mad markable country of which Wa as cause we cannot point to onalds, Canadians may be justly proud. As Cartlers, Mowats, Browns and Lauriers brother, Prince Sr we join, in whatever capacity we may, that we are retrogressing. ,In our July first celebrations we should nadians to similtan- rémember how far we have travelled keeping along' the road of national develop- vanceme ment during the past sixty years and but we are. men and women of a Free, we should look forward to am equal Progressive and Verile Country bis don starts proceedings by pressing wa. Progression in the sixty years to come, & magnificent heritage. We are linked oh National Standard High by indisoluable bonds of blood to the Years 1878 to 1888 in Canada as wife - The day of outstanding National gures such as our Fathers of Confed- eration; is past. As education and Na- rapidly raises the We are not "Sapermen" Great Commonwealth of British Na- tions which has stood and will always stand, in the forefront of the worlds defenders of Justice, Liberty and Pro- grees, By REG. In 1867 the followers of John Knox, our good Presbyterian Forefathers, had one word that has become almost 6b solete in 1927, the word "Innovation." Many are there of our elders who can look back and recall the things that came under the interdict as innova tions. Church-organe, cushions in church pews, carriage driving on the "Sabbath," secular reading on the! "Sabbath" and many other accepted commonplaces of to-day. Advance-| ments in Science and Invention and! the 'application of such advancements! to our everyday life has long forced Story of Confederation in Bronze. the word "Innovation" up on the same shelf with the words 'Chaperone' and "Petticoat." They are gone from our present-day language. However, in- novations, or depgrtures from the es- tablished (as of 1867), can be credited with many things which afford a ful: ler and more widespread opportunity to enjoy life and which permit of a THEIR EXCELLENCIES 1. Alexander Mackenzie 2. George Brown . Queen Victoria 4. D'Arcy McGeg 3, Georges-Etienne Cartier 6. John A. Macdonald 7. Lafontaine and Baldwin These are the things to remember on {July the First and while participating in the festivities of hat important oc- means for. the development / of the Haliburton average pein) attainmeny,_ so the Halifax, also known "great masses more nearly Spprouch ie Truly mental standard and outlook loaders. We need not think that be-'and laid the cornerstone of the Par e with our mechanical ad- the Dominion on his in 'home from 3 Te Prince rey Si Baward VIL, visited ih visited Canada in 1860, lament Buildings at Ottawa, a visit to Japan. He retarhed to Can: 'ada as Governgr General in 1911 and' remained until 1916. Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, spent the of the Governor General, the Marquis' of Lorne, afterwards Duke of Argyll. . The Duke of Cornwall and York (af- - terwards George Vp) "ard his wife visited Canada in 1901) The present Prince of Wales made his first visit to Canada in 1919, and has returned more than once. He has shown his casion let us rt 1 re | sotution to endeavor Phy develop our developed. .\Let us d our mental vision &s far as our opportunities have { expanded. The day of harrow paro- chialism has passed and we all must {think beyond = cursélves, beyond our | personalties, beyond Gur homes, be- yond our local surroundings. ' We must }learn to think in terms as unlimited as !the boundaries of the ether waves and | We must learn to apply such thinking .to our duily occupations. In this way July the First Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven will stant out not so much as the day of celebration for the 'A sixty svecessful yeers that have gone but as the day which ushered in a new era of National Advancement and Unity. Wiitinguv. | of Memorials on Parliament Hill, 'Ottawa; of those Great Figures i in Canadian Life Whose Efforts Have Resulted in the United Canada, the Sixtieth Anni- versary of whose Birth will be Celebrated July 4 ; 8 EE FOURTH OF NINE HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY JLFFE RYS * Princess Louise, thhe Cangdian people. 'Banquet in Loudon, when, ghd to i "indulge in it, but I should like to From Golden South-to silvery Arctio glare; | ie. God in glory shineth everywhere. i Land of the free, "whence came thy : oh) : a in the country by buying a ranch in Alberta, where he can oc selves as broadly as our country has, casionally escape from the cares of state. | Some of us 'who are not as young as we used to be can ramembo>r the 'delightful hospitality of hard Lorne and' the Prineéss Loui-e R'leau ad Hall'in Ottawa, and the i Ldy ot = their home life. The Princess was always a warm patron of art in Can-- ada, and was herself an artist of no jis: mean ability. Her husband will be remembered, among many other memorable acts, by the faet that he was chiefly instrumental in founding the Royal Society of Canada. = His public lite probably overshadowed his ability as a poet, but ft will not bs forgotten that he wrote that splendid - 'hymn beginning: Unto. the Hills around do I te wo TM My longing eyes." y The {nfl of such hers of the British Royal Family as the the Puke of Con- naught and the Prince of Wales upon 5 public and private life in Canada, al- 'though' always exerted unobtrusively * and with characteristic tact, must be regarded as a very real factor in the development of the country, All thres AL of them have known how tq win not y the respect but the affection of That thought 'was very happily expressed by Lord Byng in Janudry last, at the Wolfe the Prince. of. Wales, he sald: "I know - you hate eulogy and I am not going say this: 'We respect you, sir, for your position, but, damme, sir, 'wa ¥ love you for yourfelf." i Adina * Grand Canada, My Home Home of my heart, 1 sing. ing veal . 3 tongue : To God who gave ach hen Sy re sere i From 'wave to wave, {