THE SCOT By BERNARD Prosx ar purely Heottish names in the Canadinn Who's Who, dinsttors of distinguished persons Canada, th there are of T he eot alone osnstiiile ent. of the whole Tat, bit & Fragment which have together in on alphabet. A very law estin the namber of Seotiish name the entire volumy published thie "+ Hirer Mountains tothe LORD STRATHCONA Canada's Grand O14 Scotch Man iri po i r-- London Times the other day would the total at twenty-five per cent, we include the number of persons Scottish descent who came in with the sited Empire Lavalists, the Ca tholicited and Frevieh- wpenkinng des. eondants of the Seotsmen who settled the St. Lawrence during the regime, and the Canadians 'born of a Seottish mothe but bear. ing an English, Irish or French name, we shall easily reach the con- that "over a thied of the be of prominence have Seots blood in their veins, Against this neither the Previch, the original volo. ita of the country, the English, whe rod ib after conquest, the Trish, the Lovalists, the Germans, the Americans, the Hebrews, any of the many tacos which make up our var fegated : population, can make' a show. |g to approach it. wd the Sects of Cansda reached "this position by taciro wn qualities aléne Almost without exception they eh ns 1 theo IN CA SANDWELL, NADA ham reports that 106,000 acres in Up: x Canada were granted to executive Rn and their fami win acres to magistrates aad bar. fore, 60.000 sores to LL Laval inti, nod other move cr less private granis totalling, with the HK seins nearly hai the sury Innd of the provieoe), the w Like took wp farms where the was such That the governing avisioc racy would not look at it, and bs ther industry ard economy they de veloped thereon a reasonable nmomnt of wealth sud an inuuesse strength of character, which enabled them 10 fhecome at once ibe dominating = ele- ment of the eouatry and to provide fe greatest and noblest statesmen. When the French, after the British Leongue st of Canada, laid down the axe nnd compass of the explorer and -eus ed to venture into the unknown lands, f the Seotoh were the first to take the fask agnin, Alexander Sackon { ie, in the srvicts pot of an lish esaipany,: but of the NorthWo Fur 'Trading company, of with the great merchant Rimon Tavish at its head, was the first white man, about 1790, to penetrate tn Paetfie Comet | He was followed: sixteen wars later by Simon Fraser, who travelled the perilons Fraser river to T% mouth Bavid Thompson, Alexandse Henry, Ross Cox, Alexander Ross, John Me Leod this wile with him), Hobert + cn-- GUE ALLAN power, the botanisé are the mon with the ella names who lat the trails wn thick cloud of Seottish nomencinime » 'over the map of the dominion. ev made the northern wilds hxe u Campiel, Douglas, J Beottish country, and they taught the lian "EI SANFORD FLEMING. | ---------- ii. ame to Canada extremely pocr in this: world's goods, devoid of honors, 8 or dallueacd, relying 6 no Bit their owt determinating ities, © No Lendowapyointed Tavaied them with offices and fund; vo Family Compact meaning of law and j to eount thousands of rer where the King's wril had never pur Meznwhile, in Nordea and Toren to, the great Seottish mercluints and financiers wera busy establishing that leng Ine of commercial princes which descends to our own dav. MeTavish was but one of a powerful group, al most entirely Seotchmen, which! dom: inated the commercinl world. MeGil lisvay, John Stuart, Fraser, Melood, Sir Alexander Mackensie . himself] wer the nin 'who 'diverted to. Canadian channels the vast fur trade which the Hudsons Bay company had = Jong held in monopoly. The Seotsmen wero practically forced into commerce and "agriculture, because polities, edu: cation, the liberal professions, . aud every other path of ambition, were all closed to them by the impenetrs- ble wall of "privilege. But com: 'she conntry for their hee: | many years they were al completely excluded "from a goverment + as wie the Lower Canada upon whom: residents Jooked as upon | osople. They exiled' in the remotost corpers Noth and West to (of an Engi ttre and and agtioplivee Ee of the aristocrats. of both the regithe « afl i : the rrovines of Lower Canadian ! shackles were such as io {existence of any THE DAILY BRITISH waa, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 1910. The Reots throughout Canada in the forefront of the fight lieve education from the shackles cal and eeclésiastical control. to of prevent the | Sueati mat Gill, mative. of} higher Ma all, and James ! ! ! Fi Fa lictle eis in evidinee but thy Canadinn character hes i powerful impress of the best trait id whore § he | Sihegian mines, to he of so durable a i that gow, one of furdrade s already wentioned, val the university which still name, Ih Oatario the pro university Toronto was ed with religious test be wal ss to any but though it is Interest even so the first educational whom it employed were an sman and an Anglican respectively Strachan © and Ht of a conflict in the Svettish citizens of Up were ever the leads ultimately open eed without test or privil until the Fresbyter the & cond great un of Qu ther Provinces al Trishman MeCanl. | Wis to proving that stitutions sand the muritime dowed with werlthy and wt chants of the all obstacles in the path young Seottish-Canndian ighesi edusationnl atiain Soot began to take po. SIOHE. No neral an art of the ro. disposition the of the wchiols Srous time, speedily toward learn on the vou so wills dnance i} & n parents, vega part thie forties the si dust to ohtan i { harmed , wool, rope "kind of si : | SiR JOHN political life. George Brown mame to Canada hy way of the States inf 1843. The next year saw John A} Macdonald enter the parliamentary life un which he was destined to be the predominant. figure for most half entry. Opposite him risey the f fre of Alexander Mackenzie; and nj the same rapidly developing national / life we sce William Macdougsll, Alex-! ander T. Galt, Alexander € 'anspbell; { Oliver Mowat, a score of peat fig ures in an epoch in which the destmy of a. continent was being decided. When these men and their collesgues had hammered out the constitution of § Canada, the wext problem to be sol ved was that of transportation. inl this field the Scots had almest al monopoly. The Allans led the way | in' atean navigation, In railway work Sanford Floming was the dean | ind the unquestioned master of the ingincering forees of Canada. The engineer of the Grand Trunk, was fot a Usnadian undertaking, was Alexandir MeReneie Ross, MACDO Yi, : . : | were | res | the Canadian in thesp] th wrecked © but for the wigantic founded | pa i Litas said hat which Outawa's best pewspaper corresponde; osm e---- The spun glass cloth, which. mr«, it continental lines which silminated in} in the hands of Scotsmen. nal rival syndidates were headed Allans on one side and David Lewis Macpherson on fother. * When actual the whole scheme would have Sir the been and financial abilitses are vow Loed Strathcona and Mornt Stephen, and chi theie lewicnants were 1. 8B. end FPuness Melwt day it ie my snible to Tang walk of file in Canaday Seotsmen sre fot at the front, UH their predominence is less noticed, it ix because all races in Usnada drawing dos ry together and merging mn the common Canadian nationality "ha Lora among Ants turn to in which ite Auta indelibly imprinted upon it a © ihe Opp CLOTHING MATERIALS, people of 'Seotland. Fabrics Made From Stone, Glass Bad Paper, ite. ES WE "anafactnr from the fibre of a hiame Low The fabric 1 whi nature Ahdessruct t wh and § i* pai it practically able tor thet thas only to be placed in o fire made absolutels clean. making the collars of perly. Thie 'doth wfaetured from steel wool wud © appear ¢ of having been woven from horse hair, product i or Wo l of meno elothing. This "Times ww' al, and ds {ele tO aranites Prwde 5 th 7 Gran in othe Tatewe an sir 4h atght an Bacio wir blast it tom od ot as Hafiy as whol, When oom + fro a the furnace the wool is fdved a mee into leagihs of doth ir of tro ers or a cont made of vial 200, itis elatiaed, be r dam zed by grease, and is as coith made of sooep's ar sh the wank known made in of i throw ma flexil ma fa tarer i fabri¢ noguantity vowavelld it and Te process into a The resollant material k brown. A staff was worn by th manufacturer himself, ae has a Iavge tg hans HU from old of old fink nakin ohtaine, ordage @ An epodnd rapes. in Hk and we it | and i de i {this live in the British colonies. A novelty in diets for momen is tt a pe cs JAMES MUIR, is strictly Canadian projects for ron (said, be had in white, grees lilac, pink i i and yellow shades. The this fabric was an Austriz invention was said to have 1 valted in the production of a material ard flexible as silk. The first 'ade wear a gown of this material sntor of and his # « bright to as one building began!' cnerEY Tron cloth is Inrgely used, to-day, hy ! where dor' fhe-parpose of IMARKABLE BJ ANKNOTE. Pasilic were sbeolutely | The orig bd One Ever The Most Extraordinary fssned, WHE no ban artist ths the mot it an haps ever put ont, aid this Foutbish-Canadian ax such may be | baud § most | el Spun! soft | extrEe, ba when soiled | to be | then Cleprps Crunk thiz not nti t en bh waeliud wey tout thee hu punixhal WILLIAM KIRG ir HON LYON Ld porgnee, | gent then turn the chan "Craikshani Ww pity and tesque cary oalled it a bank fo Le imitated, he it he sabion, with a the with wns went shame, restriction ture note--uot ing In filled There a vouring her were transports the lucky and fmcaped 3 i « known signa was that of * This note was See: paldish Home, waged it for wublication. Seo Cruikshank etched the atte and gave it to Home, who exhib teed it for sale in Bis window © with tartling effect. CUrowdls gathered mid and purchased so saperly that "® isege was soon exhansted, Craik- Ya sank was kept hard at work makin % ve etohihge, and the Crowds grew great that the street was blocked the mayor had to send soldiers to in had well who Cruikshank's an MACKENZIE se A AA A asians A ot. wm pt A bt ee {ear it. Home realized £3,000 ig 4 few fave. the more were furious atdide from the Fry. but "Bast fle stall org Was Lhe 1 fae rom felt to Bar nbn to make a nan Tele London She orchestra Hropped His "HH. on the elections Italian of the watirs while boardwalk tance was a kaleidos humanity and mualtiv T VOouRg steel from per opera on the in OPS Adored hifi man ternoon risterad i hot:d, 'wl his fair i ARmEriNg at a he, The Compe hots met tha pointing a dutiful chaprom, ay to the puditoy g the young folks to then beautiful ocean, There could be young man's ¢h crm SA ei 8 no doubt Wm } WILLIAM MACKENZIE Rallway magnate. hand, :] woman: buf on the other z £ = { Paki aw 17 exclaimed Mise Hiakor impationtly, * St seems to have waited a good many minutes for that § mo ther of ine. "Hours, | should sav. snapped we her companion, in hs harshest "Ours 7 Oh, George +27 i ber 'burning hook upon his { Jute pluk4 Ahuted hint front. i phis Times. -------------- bb SI Not Related. 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