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Title: The Canadian Commonwealth

Author: Agnes C. Laut

Release Date: March 21, 2006 [eBook #18032]

Language: English

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THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH

by

AGNES C. LAUT

Author of
Lords of the North, Pathfinders of the West,
Hudson's Bay Company, etc.

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
Copyright 1915
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
II FOUNDATION FOR HOPE
III THE TIE THAT BINDS
IV AMERICANIZATION
V WHY RECIPROCITY WAS REJECTED
VI THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH
VII THE COMING OF THE FOREIGNER
VIII THE COMING OF THE ORIENTAL
IX THE HINDU
X WHAT PANAMA MEANS
XI TO EUROPE BY HUDSON BAY
XII SOME INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
XIII HOW GOVERNED
XIV THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE
XV EMIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
XVI DEFENSE
XVII THE DOMAIN OF THE NORTH
XVIII FINDING HERSELF
INDEX

THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH

CHAPTER I

NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

I

An empire the size of Europe setting out on her career of world history
is a phenomenon of vast and deep enough import to stir to national
consciousness the slumbering spirit of any people. Yet when you come
to trace when and where national consciousness awakened, it is like
following a river back from the ocean to its mountain springs. From
the silt borne down on the flood-tide you can guess the fertile plains
watered and far above the fertile plains, regions of eternal snow and
glacial torrent warring turbulently through the adamantine rocks. You
can guess the eternal striving, the forward rush and the throwback that
have carved a way through the solid rocks; but until you have followed
the river to its source and tried to stem its current you can not know.

So of peoples and nations.

Fifty years ago, as far as world affairs were concerned, Japan did not
exist. Came national consciousness, and Japan rose like a s