The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . farm, as well as the Enghsh, Scotchand Irish immigrant. But our neglect of the frontiers-man has driven the English-speaking men back from thefirst line to a seemingly more favored position. Theyhave retreated to the older settlements, where they findbetter sanitary conditions, and more opportunities forgiving schooling to a family. European races, men withan alien tongue, have taken their place in the camps. One great problem for Canada to-day is how to assimi-late this diverse foreign population, not in camps alonebut also in settlemen
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . farm, as well as the Enghsh, Scotchand Irish immigrant. But our neglect of the frontiers-man has driven the English-speaking men back from thefirst line to a seemingly more favored position. Theyhave retreated to the older settlements, where they findbetter sanitary conditions, and more opportunities forgiving schooling to a family. European races, men withan alien tongue, have taken their place in the camps. One great problem for Canada to-day is how to assimi-late this diverse foreign population, not in camps alonebut also in settlements, and urban centres. In our opin-ion, this can be done only by a sounder and more up-to-date policy that will align the universities of Canada intomore active participation in an organized effort to meetthe need. One solution, as already outlined, lies in thepresence of university instructors at all works employingfifty or more foreigners. We must meet the foreigner at his first point of con-tact with our civilization. We must educate him to our 12S. The Instructor as a Canadianizer 129 standards both at the frontier and on the homestead orone of two alternatives confront us: either we shall seehim go back to Europe taking with him money that hadbetter be put into use here; or worse, drift into the hovelsand overcrowded tenements of our towns and cities. All industrial education rightly includes courses incitizenship. Nowhere is this need more apparent than inthe frontier works and extra gangs. What does instruc-tion in citizenship involve ? We mean by it, instruction incivics, in social rights and responsibilities. Our foreign-bom workers are entitled to the education which willenable them more fully to understand what their rightsare and how to secure them, and at the same time whatare the attendant obligations and how to observe them. Through the instructor the foreign-born workman mustbe taught to read and write the English language—thelanguage of the majority in Canada
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