ere either. People and
conditions are much the same, only on the American side our dollars
cost us more.

II

Western Ontario is, in the main, the most British part of Canada. Its
towns have British names, and the streets of the towns have British
names, while their atmosphere and design are almost of the Home
Counties. The countryside (if one overlooks the absence of
hedges--though rows of upturned tree-roots with plants growing among
them sometimes have the look of hedges) is the suave, domesticated
countryside of England. England is in the very air. And at the first
of these curiously English towns the Prince became an Indian chief.

Brantford, though it reminds one of a comely British country town,
preferably one with a Church influence in it, is really the capital of
the Six Nation Indians. It actually owes its name to Joseph Brant, the
Mohawk chief, who, having fought his Indians on the side of the
British--as the braves of the fierce and powerful Six Nations had
always fought on the side of the British--in the War of Independence,
marched his tribes from their old camping-grounds in the Mohawk Valley
to this place, so that they could remain under British rule.

The Indians of the Six Nations still live in and about Brantford, for,
though they have ceded away their lands to settlers, they are among the
few of the aboriginal races that have thrived and not decayed under
civilization. The Prince's visit to Brantford on Monday, October 20th,
was nearly all a visit to the Mohawks, the leaders of the ancient
Indian federation of six tribes.

This is not to say that the welcome given him by Canadians was not a
great one. As a matter of fact, it was astonishing, and it was
difficult to imagine how a small town like this could pack its streets
with so many people. But Brantford is industrial and scientific also,
as well as being Indian. After a strenuous reception, for instance,
the Prince went along to the statue that shrines the town's claim to a
place in the history of science. This was the memorial to Dr. Bell,
who lived in Brantford and who invented the first telephone in
Brantford. They will even show you the trees from which the first line
over which the first spoken message sent, was strung.

But the colourful ceremonies of Brantford were those connected with the
Mohawks. The Prince was taken out to the small, old wooden chapel that
George III. erected for his loyal Mohawk allies. It is the