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O.CANADA V/orc!s by WEIR Music by 1AVAIXEE OCanada! Our. home, our native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command, With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North, strong and free, And stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee, O Canada, glorious and free, We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee! Owing to the fact that numerous suggestions were received from all parts of Canada that a uniform English version of "O Canada" be approved, the National Committee for the Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation circularized the Prime Ministers and the Ministers of Education of all the Provinces. Replies were received that the version written by the lata R. Stanley Weir, D.C.L., Recorder of Montreal, is being used in the schools of ail the Provinces, including the English-speaking sections of Quebec. In view of this, the Committee is using the Weir version in its own publications. MODERN INVENTIONS RELATED TO OUR JUBILEE CELEBRATION The National Progress the Last Sixty Years Points to the Unfathomed Future WE HAVE COME FAR How Far We Go Depends Only on Ourselves By R.E.G. In 1S67 the followers of John Knox, our good Presbyterian Forefathers, had one word that has become almost ob solete in 1927, the word Many are there of our elders who can look back and recall the things that the interdict as innova rch-organs, cushions in 5, carriage driving on the secular reading on the ' other accepted of to-day. Advance-rice and Invention sad Transportations! Advances vl Our train services can and will speed the wanderer, in luxurious comfort, to the home-town. They will permit him to enjoy the best of food and most comfortable of rest while travelling home from the farthest corners of the continent. Improved road-beds and rolling stock cut the time required for such travel to a point not thought of in '67. Our steamers, palaces of undreamed grandeur, constantly in touch with land by radio, bind our ports with the maritime centers of the world. For the venturesome (and soon no doubt for general use), the air-ways have annihilated Wh distance and time, permitting, we hope, our nine provinces to send their felicitations to our country's Capital on July 1st and enabling these messages to start and to reach their destination within the space of the one day; perhaps too al- )RNi THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927. lowing a message of goodwill to be S9nt to tho Mother Land within two days time. These are but a few of the practically applied Innovations which will help to make our Diamond Jubiiee Celebration truly national. Individual Application More closely applied to the individual are other innovations which are now accepled as commonplace. Think our thousands of mile3 of good roads and the motor-car will enter into successful enjoyment of our coming National rejoicing. Motorists can load their families and hampers in • cars and easily Journey to the large centers to join in the big municipal fetes. The old homes in the intry will be visited by thousands where the old folks will be cheered by the visits of the city dwelling sons and daughters and their families. Within limits unimagined in '67 is our country knit together by this com-tively new method of transporta-and wo do not give full credit to the great good derived from the con-t interchange of thought and personal experience between country and ty dwellers. The days of the "hick," re gone. "Hayseed" is on the same shelf with "innovation." Tho telephone gives the opportunity of instantaneous interchange of personally voiced messages of love and remembrance so that distance no longer separates the people of our land. From coast to coast the ether waves will enable all Canadians to similtan-eously join in the National Jubilations opened by the Governor-General at Ottawa when our Gracious' King in London starts proceedings by pressing a golden key in the Capital of our Empire. The chimes of the new Carillon will ring not only in the ears of the people of Ottawa hut will be heard by the people of Canada from Halifax to OUR KING AND QUEEN "God Biess Them" | Vancouver, from Pelee Point to the mssns |ried out as planned they will rever-'great n berate throughout the Empire. Truly I mental ,an Epochal event in the life cf a re-! leaders markable courttry- of which we; as cause ' >roud. As Cartier !anadians may be ju n, in whatever c in our July first celebr remember how far wi along the road of n ment during the past v/e should look forwi progression in the sixty years b National Standard High , Mowat :ns we should mentality of Canadians i ave travelled ' keeping pace with our m nnal develop-' vancement. We are not ity years and i but we are men and won equal i Progressive and Verile 1 come.'a magnificent heritage. A 1 by indisoluable bonds of XT lt ,'Great Common.wealth of The day of outstanding National tiong wMcj, ras ~n rures such as our Fathers of Coi*>d- j aM ,n ^ fccefront-t ation, is past. As education and Na-, def&adera ct jL,3.aco, Llb. jn.al progress rapidly ra*- -- Story of Confederation in Bronze* i gress. These are the things to Juiy the First and while in the festivities of that ccsion let us register a solution to endeavor to jde-veOi i I t cs ; n | yond our locr.! s learn to-think ii the boundaries 1. Alexander Mackenzie 2. George Brown 3. Queen Victoria 4. D'Arcy McGee 5. Georges-Etienne Cartier 6. John A. Macdonald 7. Lafontaine and Baldwin Memorials on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, of those Great Figures in Canadian Life Whose Efforts Have Resulted in the United Canada, the Sixtieth Anniversary of whose Birth will be Celebrated July L FOURTH OF NINE HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY JEFFE RYS (CUT OUT AND SAVE) Oil