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; XOX ae & RE : o : The Jesuit Day | To asennad a 0g Breese stoodsote Toate iteatratuadrdecteoadsodralretraductecifestictests HE recent discovery near Ste. Mary II, Christian Is- land, of the cannon brought 'here by the French mission- aries nearly three hundred years ago, has served to arouse fresh interest in the Jesuit Missions to the Hurons, and to our early Canadian history. Edward King, an Indian native of the island, happened to notice an "object partially submerged, in the water, a few feet from the shore, re- sembling in appearance and design, an embryonic cannon of peculiar construction, which he immediately secured. Later he brought the "dere- lict" to Penetanguishene on specula- tion, when it was recognized as none other than the real cannon brought to Ste. Marie on the Wye in © 1648. Pee ; Eh ] The attention of Mayor C. B. Wright was called to the true char- acter and value of this unique "dis- card," and in an interview with the finder succeeded in negotiating a! purchase and securing the venerable | relic on behalf of the town, to be re- : tained as a souvenir of early days. Parkman, in his history of the "Jesuits in America' says: "In 16 48° a small cannon wa ught to Ste. 0 rass and irom,' tion of C 'inches of the breech hav-; ing a projection of three: inches at the back, being composed of bronze about ten i or bell metal. The barrel extension over two feet is of iron, bound with heavy wrought-iron hoops, one inch wide. The entire length is three feet, but may have been longer, as one or two of the hoops at the muzzle are missing, and the enclosed 'ghell is much rusted and broken, otherwise the weapon is in a fair state of preservaticn. ; The inside bore is four inches in _ diameter, and the gun weighs about 120 pounds. The breech is octagon in shape, and on the same facet be-' low the fuse bore, which is about the size of a common lead pencil, is en- eraved Carlovignian crown with. the arabic characters--evidently the date of manufacture. Above the fuse bora | ar 'the capital letters L.G.C., the rmounted by a neatly en- arlovignian Crown with the Lis in the centre. ch facet is stamped in sue- i. Making New 3 : Canadians ~~ %| | perhaps the Bolshevists have not suf- \ 4 Sai : « : Ie 5 PEAS RTD HRM SSB EX oe > a Xa aX) HIRTY-NINE young Polish- Canadians warched up and. down the yard of a country school in Northern Manitoba nd. took . their marching orders rora a sergzeant-major of fourteen years. They went through the man= nal exercise as precisely as a regi- ment of trained soldiers, and when trey were through with it they pass- ed in file into the school house. The 'day's work indoors 'began with some singing, in English, and the instrue- tion during the day, as every day, was also in English. Yet a year ago not one of the young folk in that) school could speak or understand a word of the language. ; 7 All through the prairie West the Canadianization of the foreigm- speaking people is being given an in- creased amount of attention, and. in many cases with surprisingly good a 00 s® a % 2 1%0e% 04 "aes o alent sToels leeds. 7 52 results. What has been done in that | one Manitoba school is being done in many others in that province and in Saskatchewan and Alberta. With or without military drill, the lesson of British patriotism is being driven 'home, and the virus of alien influ- ence and prejudice is in some meas- ure overcome by the good work being done with the rising generation. ficiently taken into account the Cana=| dian educational system. Dr. J. T. M. Anderson was a short time ago appointed director of edu- cation for mew Canadians in Sas- katchewan, and with the endorsation 'of the Provincial Department of Edu- 'cation is now initiating a policy that aims at giving to every child of non- English parentage a training neces= sary for good Canadian citizenship. The instruction is to be given by Canadian teachers, and under con= ditions much move favorable than have 'obtained heretofore. It used to be mere than a year's salary made up for to live as the teachers in the average {foreign- speaking community out West had to live. There was in many cases noth- ing for them to do but to go a-board= ing with some of the funny-named pecple whose children they taught by day, and in' whose bad-smelling houses they slept at night. Non-Eng- lish hosts and hostesses were fre- quently persons of excellent intene tions, who did the best they could n, one of the Roman numerals ~ VI to VIII inclusive. The letters are the initials standing r e," the ouse of the Carthusian fuated in the mountain stnesses near Grenoble in South Eastern Frange. The monasfery was founded in 1084 by St. Bruno, and n to various other indus- the production. ery fine liqueur, famous among and widely known by e of Hence the ce virtually amounts to cer= that this cannon was the gift Carthusian Monks, and the their workmanship also. 0 onward the Huron Indian in Canada were very popu- France, and had many dis- shed patrons, who vied 'with ich liberal donations in behalf of the distant missions. These were the days of the great Richelieu, who was also among the eminent and liberal patrons, and the as in all probability pre- 'Richelieu, an elder brother of the noted cardinal. His- r relates an interesting episode which Alphonse refused the Bishopric of > rather to join the Carthusian Com- mu ity instead. 'The crisis ended in yunger brother of the future being appeinted to the thus starting on the high- Th ' (0 ( as mod- war weapons go, but it doubt- lled its intended mission to e Indians and afford ample fection against any savage. dis- . There is wo record of dts have ever been pitted against an 1d the post of honor at Fort Wye till June 14th, Marie wag abandon- ) thence, amidst the -tenances of the Fort, household and a varied assortment of 3, embracing cows, pigs and , convoyed on a raft to Christian te. Joseph Island, where it was or Y red years, C ; ced it nearer the for Jn and ht hereby the Jesuits--a t mar- e is little when we ; od the entire width of France, crossed the ocean, ascended the many 1 dowbt--it is mos ering many dif- 1 bark canoes, COV flcu.'t portages, 0 : on waters y-nine years. = dnique implement ngible and invalua ion, and furnishes one ct lessons in suits at the instance fp Lucon -- choosing hful guardian: f this be the veritable wea- we reflect that it tra- streams mostly in. for the schoolma'ams, but the results "were seldom entirely happy, and as a ! natural consequence school districts | of this kind were avoided. It is now | proposed, however, to supply come | fortable cottages in which the teach= | ers are to keep house for themselves. | To live among the immigrant settlers I isn't so bad when one hasn't to live with them, a ; re i A similar plan is being put into | effect in Alberta also. The Depart= ! ment of Education in that 'province ' will prepare plans for small resi- dences for teachers, and will pay one= , third of the 'cost of construction if . the building is of a value of not less | than §1,000. The local school dis- | trict must do the rest. Married men will then be sent asprincipals of these schools, taking their families with them to the school residences, and boarding the assistant teachers as a matter of mutual accommodation. This housing feature will not be com= pulsory, but will be introduced where local circumstances make it advis- able. ; "ae Both in Saskatchewan and Alberta the new plans of the Education De- partments involve a wider use of the school building as a centre of came munity life and betterment. In the latter province the trustees will be encouraged to furnish the schools so that they tan be used as community halls for lectures, concerts, and such like. "A grant of fifty per cent. of the cost of equipment for movable and adjustable seats will be made to each rural school district, up to a 'maximum of $250, and in this way it is hoped to encourage the country people to use their schools as real centres of social welfare. Saskatchewan will try the plan of stocking some of its schools in non- English communities with news- 'papers and magazines. Grafanolas will also be recommended to the trus- tees as a means of cultivating the children's taste for good: music and oratory, and wherever practicable sewing machines will be installed for 'the girls. Libraries will be establish- in the foreign schools of Manitoba by the Daughters of the Empire, as war memorials to the fallen. Some of the rural districts of Sas- 'katchewan, where the non-English populaticn is: dominant, have never before had winter schools, but the experiment has proved a success, and will likely be continued. In ail such cases an eftort is being made to cul- tivate community spirit and to use the school as a real source of social betterment. Here is a report from & teacher in one such school that shows how the plan is working out: "We opened school about the mid- they have had a winter school in this Ruthenian district. I have about thirty enrolled, and twelve are at- a week. On February 1 we held eur surprised to find the people so neatly dressed. Two other English teachers assisted me. ; later danced. I was most favorably | tertain them. They used English = i 1 d by a Scotch touri strange and heroic stories, but, per- haps, never one more strange and dle of January. It is the first time tending night school four evenings first social evening. I was agreeably We played games, and impressed with the manner in which all appreciated our efforts to em- quite freely throughout the evening." st at the 'who, accordin to Harper's | Old : € he SOUNDED LAST FAY CRY Dramatic Tucident Told of Battlo of Passchendaele. Eo Out of the war have come many fearless than that todd now in full in a series of letters from England of Bugler T. Bell, of the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, and by the picture of his bugle, which has been received by W. Stewart Thomson, of the Department of Game and Fisheries, at the Ottawa Parliament Buildings, formerly assistant pay- master of the same regiment. When | the veterans of the P.P.C.L.I. have permanent quarters, this picture will Hang on a conspicuous part of the wall, and some Canadian poset, per' haps, fired by the incident, will comnremorate it dndelibly for the generations to come. Fv dy On the bugle is a this inseription: | Passchendaele, Oct. 30, 1917. The regimental eall of the P.P.C.L.L was sounded on this bugle 'plate bearing 3 y ; No. 1110 Bugler T. Bell «over: 7 Capt. Rider Lancelet Haggard, i - "P.P.C.L.I. 'When he fell. Presented to his father, "Major Arthur Haggard, : by ,s Bugler Bell. "Young in his year when death in honor found him ; Yet old with all ihe val LO races ; ; or of his On the letter heads of the Vet- 'erans' Club, London, England, you will find these two names among the rest: among thes vice-patrons, Sir William H. D. Haggard, K.C.M.G., C.B., and across er the right hand disc. Majors "Arthur Haggard (founder), secretary of the elub. Both of these men are brothers of the famous Rider Haggard, the ex- plorer, government investigator, and author of 'the imaginative romances that almost sverybody «knows. Major Arthur Haggard, a brilliant soldier himself was the father of the Rider Lancelot Haggard over whom Bugler Bell blew 'his farewell call. The beginning of the war found this young man, named after his un- cle, the author, in Canada. From all accounts he was a tall young man, in the early twenties, open faced, with the sparkle of fun and adven- ture in his eyes. Everywhere he went he made friends. In the army it was the same, for, of course, he enlisted at once; he was always in search of adventures, and duty also held its place. It was' at Passchendaele that his last adventure came. He had en- tered the regiment as a private, but, by force of character, he made his way to a captaincy by this time. - "Bell is a noble fellow," writes | Major Arthur Haggart to Mr. Thom- son, and now a member of this insti- tution. I have seen him many times, and he told me that my son was ly- ing huddled up in a dry shell hole, and that when he (Bell) went to him my son asked him to help' him to get into a more comfortable position, which he did with some "difficulty, but Lance was cheerful and jaunty and trying to help himself. He liter- ally died with the sound of the regi- mental call in his ears, which Bell was inspired to sound." ; : And here is Bell's simple story from a torn, crumpled letter to Major Haggard: 'It was fortunate that your address was referred to in last week's Canada, as I have been anx- fous to send you Capt. Haggard's handkerchief, which I took along with his other personal effects from must have got hit soon after the commencement. He motioned for ms as I went past, and, seeing his pre- dicament, I stayed with him and did my best under the circumstances. It was not of much avail, I am sorry to say, and he soon died. "I am sure you will be pleased to hear that he died very bravely, and when he knew it was all over he told me to leave him. This prompted me to sound our regimental call over him (I was regimental bugler}s which seemed to brighten him up just be- fore the last. After he died, I plae- ed his belongings in my overcoat pockets and joined in the attach again, but I was buried for the se- cond time that morning, and sustain- ed fractured ribs and an spine which, made if necessary to proceed to the dressing station. I'm sorry that I could not bring out hig "effects, because I was very weak, in- deed. However, I searched and found coat over him." iS «I have had the bugle mounted in a glass case,' says Major Haggard, "and it will be an heirloom in my family. Would you care to have a photo of it?" Mr. Thomson immedi- ately answered "Yes." The Canadian Mission. Mr. H. P. Thomson, late Food Con- troller of Canada, is now actively at work. as a member of the Canadian Mission in London, and is 'devoting special attention to the development o? the opportunities for exporting food supplies from the Dominion to Great Britain. 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