The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . resentatives were not states-men or orators, but they had a part to play in the settlement and develop-ment of the colony, and in making itshistory and enacting its laws. Thesepioneer legislators and law-makers, forthe most part, discharged their publicduties honestly and to the best of theirability. They laid the foundation onwhich others have builded, and thePrince Edward Island of to-day, withits rare privileges and larger oppor-tunities, owes much to the men wholived in this early period. They werewi
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . resentatives were not states-men or orators, but they had a part to play in the settlement and develop-ment of the colony, and in making itshistory and enacting its laws. Thesepioneer legislators and law-makers, forthe most part, discharged their publicduties honestly and to the best of theirability. They laid the foundation onwhich others have builded, and thePrince Edward Island of to-day, withits rare privileges and larger oppor-tunities, owes much to the men wholived in this early period. They werewilling to give their time and talents,and when occasion demanded manymade sacrifices for the welfare of theSea-girt Isle they loved and taughttheir sons to love as the dear homeof freemen brave and tnie. THE HARBOUR By may AUSTIN LOW VV/HEN the world hurts, then speedily we turn To one dear place, where love may not discernThe worst that is within us; where mean hateGaineth no entrance: all inviolateThis spot from sorrow, and its sacred nameIs Home—the harbour holding naught of MANITOBA TEACHERS ABROAD BY NEWTON MacTAVISH PO give full measure at the outset??• to the significance of the jNIanitobaschool-teachers visit to Great Britainwould be to at once court tour began at Winnipeg, east ofwhich fully two-thirds of the 169 whocomposed the party had never beforeset foot. That meant, therefore, thateven before we had felt the buoy-ancy of the tidal waters of the , most of us had alreadymade what in ordinary circumstanceswould be regarded as the trip of a life-time and as the basis of a liberal ed-ucation. To the mind that bad reach-ed maturity in the West, to the vis-ion that from childhood had beenfocused on wide stretches of prairieor accustomed only to the wild bluff-lands of the farther north, it was anexperience of rare interest to see forthe first time an Ontario farmsteador a Quebec pastoral. Toronto andMontreal had signified the
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