The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . , as a protection to the men, against the count-less flies and mosquitoes, which are present through thelivelong summer, and though only to retiu-n instantly,are brushed aside often with a curse. This at least hasthe war taught thousands of camp men. It is a safe assertion that very few Canadians realizethe debt which this country owes to the men in the works of such writers as Doctor Drummond, StewartEdward White and Ralph Connor have thrown a cer-tain glamor around the life of the lumber-jack and river-driver, but the commerci
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . , as a protection to the men, against the count-less flies and mosquitoes, which are present through thelivelong summer, and though only to retiu-n instantly,are brushed aside often with a curse. This at least hasthe war taught thousands of camp men. It is a safe assertion that very few Canadians realizethe debt which this country owes to the men in the works of such writers as Doctor Drummond, StewartEdward White and Ralph Connor have thrown a cer-tain glamor around the life of the lumber-jack and river-driver, but the commercial value of these men to thecoimtry is seldom considered. Just as surely, however,as the foundation of Englands trade and commerce waslaid by the gallant seamen who served under Hawkinsand Drake, so the basis of this countrys financial pros-perity has been firmly set by those daring sons of thefrontier represented by Macdonald Ban and JohnnyCourteau. We boast of the land of the peerless pine, and pre-sumably we glory in the sturdy woodmen who brave the. Interior of a Bunk Car. (Facing page 11.) Thb Bunkhousb and Camp Men U northern winters in order that stately trees may becomemerchantable lumber. Our hopes are centred in themeasm-eless west, where progress is marked by the build-ing of railroads, or in the. trackless north, where themining possibilities are limited only by labor and who shall build these railroads and exploit thesemines? The men in camp, is the reply. Shanty-men, river-drivers, miners, and navvies have notin the past had a fair show ; they have been allowed togive but not to take. Until recent years the staple bill offare for camps was pork and beans—and not the bestquality of pork at that. It is not long since it wasimpossible tb get medical treatment on the frontier, evenamong big gangs; and even now less thought is given tothe social welfare of these thousands of our citizens thanto any other class of people in the Dominion. Camp men are surel
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