The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . we have not shot eachother since the days of Lundys Lane, but every student ofhistory knows that many a time in our diplomatic relationsthis peace has come near breaking and amity has waveredamong the peoples. We do not promote a cordial andhappy future by misrepresenting the past. Today is betterthan yesterday; all the yesterdays of a hundred years. God grant that the time may never come when I—when any citizen of my country—may not visit this hal-lowed spot with the same assurance of f
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . we have not shot eachother since the days of Lundys Lane, but every student ofhistory knows that many a time in our diplomatic relationsthis peace has come near breaking and amity has waveredamong the peoples. We do not promote a cordial andhappy future by misrepresenting the past. Today is betterthan yesterday; all the yesterdays of a hundred years. God grant that the time may never come when I—when any citizen of my country—may not visit this hal-lowed spot with the same assurance of friendly welcomethat you extend to us today and with clear appreciation ofthe principles for which this hill was defended. An ode, composed by Miss Janet Carnochan, ofNiagara-on-the-Lake, was read by her. Other speakers were Dr. Alexander Eraser, ,Provincial Archivist of Ontario; Dr. James H. Coyne,, of St. Thomas, and Chief Hill of the Six Nationsreservation at Bran I ford. Under direction of Professor C. Bennett Kaye of thiscity a chorus of about 500 school children sang the national. PRESS REPORTS 101) anthems of both countries. As they sang the childrenwaved flags of both nations. To President R. W. Geary, President of the LundysLane Historical Society, W. H. Arison and other officers ofthe society great credit is due. For it was under the direc-tion of these men tliat plans for the observance of the battlewere formulated and carried on. Prominent among those present at the observancewere descendants of many of the soldiers, both Rritish andAmerican, who fell in the battle on Drummond Hill. Theywere Miss Jennie McKenzie, who lives in the old bridkhouse at Lundys Lane and Victoria street. The place wasoccupied by her great-grandfather during the war; M. Johnson of Lewiston, a granddaughter of Gap-tain Philip Tufford, one of the fighters; D. G. Edwards ofProspect street, Niagara Falls, N. Y., a veteran of theSpanish-American war, whose grandfather
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