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Libel ing C nada in Both Sori erat Picture || Lebourdais in Ford’s Weekly) | Wb)He on a trip to Chicago a few i vears ago I Lappened to drop into the ! offices of the Canadian Pacific Rail- » way Company there to see a ‘friend who was connected with that com- pany’s department of natural re- sources and colonization. As } enter- ed the door my friend pounced on me immediately. “You're just the man I’m looking | for; there's a lady in the office who j wants to know all about British Tol- |umbia, and we don’t seem to have ; very much dope here on B.C.,” be Ww D. .M. ! | “Lead me to her,” 'I replied. | “‘Here’s a man who was born | British Columbia,” he explained, he presented me to an elderly | who sat primly in one of his office | chairs. “‘He’ll be able to tell all you, | wish to know_about that province.”’; {| She greeted me with enthusiasm.| | I was dressed in the habiliments of | the ordinary city-going male. She ev- | idently expected me to‘be dressed in | buckskins, at least. “About what particular part of | British Columbia do you wish infor- ‘mation, madam?” I inquired. “I am reading the ‘most realistic story of western life!'’ she exclaim. ed. “It is “alled—————by———,; i have you read it?” | As it happened, the story was run- ‘ning as a serial in one of the cheape: magazines and I had glanced over an ‘installment a few days before—to my infinite disgust. It was quite ob- | viously written by one who had never | been west ‘of the Great Lakes and ' whose (views of the West were ev- !identaly culled from the most ser- | Sational of a certain type of motion | picture. I admitted that'I had seen it but ; not read it. I was curious to know by aa | what process of reasoning the woinan | had arrived at the impression that | this literary botch was ‘realistically | western.” ; “You're familiar with the West | madam—you've flived jthere?’’ I ask- fed | “Oh, no; this is the first time I’ve i ever been West.” Chicago, west! And here was | thinking I ‘had Penetrated the effete “I live in Boston,"’ the woman adit The story writers and scenario fabricators are now Bnguged in des- eribing a Canada which never exist- ed outside of their own hectic im- aginatiens. Innumerable writers, from the days of Dean Swift onwar« have created imaginary settings for their tales. and there can be no cavil| at this; but, at least. these were pal pably fictitious places; the authors} did not seek to invest lands in actual) existence with people, habits and customs entirely at variance with} reality. | The reader of much contemporary | fiction could scarcely fail to get the! idea'that Canada is a country e pled almost exclusively by bearded ignorant habitants, garbed the year! roun in mackinaw; prospectors, ; bootleggers, dangerous adventurers! and others pf that ilk, who live’ in some mysterious ‘“northland,”’ whem they do hothing ‘but drink whiskey, piay poker and engage in gun fights Among these uncouth individuals is generally a beautinfl girl—where she comes from God only knows! She is usually alone in this “northland”™ —excepting, perhaps for a pet griz- zily or mayhap a faithful wolf! Then these bewhiskered whiskey-sodden ruffians fight to the death for pos session of her. The gener atmos- phere is one of snow, snow every- where—dog 'sleds, northern lights. intense cold, blizzards. frozen wastes. Through it all runs the vein of the! heroism of the Northwest Mounted} Police. What care they for a little thing such as a blizzird bilowiny right off the frigid pole! They blithe- ly ride the storm and the hurricane —a thousand miles, more or less, is nothing to them! Now, Canada is a very large coun- try; it is larger than the United Sta- tes; and, in its way, there és to be found within it as great a degree of variation in people, customs, habits. fauna and flora and climate as there is in the United States. On the Atlantic seaboard, in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brun swick and Prince Edward Island, the people are principally of British’ stock, whose viewpoint is much clos er to that of the people of the British Isles than it is to those living in British Columbia, for instante. In some sections are to be found des-, cendants of those early Acadians who; escaped expulsion by the British, the story of which - has - been - im-, mortalized by Longfellow in his “Evangeline.” In some communities. | such as "Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, are, colonies of Europeans of other na-, tionalities—German in this case—' who have been in Canada for genera-! tions, a study of whom would provide many interesting side lights on the effect of environment on Inherited, racial characteristics. “ Fishing, mining and agriculture’ are the principal occupants of the people of the maritime provinces— the frozen northland and North- west*Mounted Police have no place in this picture. Quebec is the home of about 2.-| 250,000 descendants of the original! French settlers; there has been prac-| tically no immigration from France] since the’ British conquest. The part} which these people play in the nation-| al life of Canada probably is not ful-| ly realized outside of Canada. The) newspaper having the largest circu-| lation of any paper ‘in Canada is} printed in Montreal in the French! language. Montreal is the largest city) in Canada; it is a progressive city of| about 750,000—a cosmopolitan city as ‘befits a seaport, but aiso because itcis bi-lingual. In the streets, the stores, the hotels, everywhere, two languages are heard. It is a city of wide divergencies and likewise. broad tolerance. In Montreal is McGill, one of the great universities of the world. Quebec city 4s full of historic in- terest and could alone provide writ- 'ance of law and order was placed ir | the hands of this body. It was mad* | particular sphere 1 more wild- ers with a wealth of mater, fascinating in reality than est figments of imagination. The province of Quebec extends up to ‘the sub-Arctic regions and, there- fore, snowshoes, dog sleds, mackin- aw clothed habitants, make part of the picture—in.winter; summer in Quebec provides a field for wonder- ful stories of the ‘‘northland” in which beautiful lakes, rivers. water falls, might supply h background for romances in which some of the most interesting people on earth would Dias their parts, but one would seek in vain’ for the familiar “bad man”; neither would one find the Northwest Mounted Police. Ontario might be any state in the Union, expecting that its people are more preponderantly of British stock. It is the sort of province where future statesmen are born on the farm; where social' reformers flourish. Ot- tawa, the capital city of Canada, is in Ontario, as in Toronto, the chief fin-' ancial atid industrial centre of the) Dominion. Ontario extends up to! Hudson’s Bay——-Moose Factory is in| Ontario! In Northern Ontario are some of) the greatest gold mines in the world; | and, if one goes far enough north, | trappers, hunters, grizzly bears, and | o on, may be encountered.’ ! The provinces of Manitoba, Sask- | atchewan and Alberta fill in the space; between the Great Lakes and the! Rockies. They consist of a vast prai-| rie, ‘broken at intervals by rivers, and; in some Jlaces by low ranges of hills | Not y years ago the buffalo} grazed over this entire expanse, | hunted on occasion by the Indian. } Both Indian and buffalo are now) preserved by the government on res-| ervations; tha latter have increased | so fast that it was necessary to sell) 1.000 head this fall at the Wain: | wright National Park, but then the buffalo has been spared contact with fhe white man’s civilization and its; concomitants, whiskey and “socla!} disease’’—the Indian will ‘soon bey with the dinosaurus. ; Following the buffalo came tif} range cattle, but they in turn had to) give place to the grain grower, under} whose hand the prairie is fast becom | ing a vast carpet of green growing | grain in spring and bright yellow | gold in autumn. Here life is not mucd | different from that in the prairie, states to the south; in fact, many 0 ' the people have simply moved weross | the line with their lares and penate*/ and have begun life anew. | This is where the Royal Northwest) Mounted Police formerly held sway | In the days before the formation 0°) the present provinces, the mainten-! up mostly of young Englishinen oft gocd family who enlisted in the force because of a love for the out-of-doors and a liking for adventure. They were not policemen simply because they’ had to earn a living somehow, they were not in the force just for the pay} that was in it. The pay was small, as; a matter of fact, but they did not care Being men ‘with some sense of hone and with traditions behind them, they soon developed a code under which the traditions of the force were estab- lished. The great bane of ordinary police forces is the ‘greed for money. It is virtually impossible to keep men) free from corruption when money means more to them than anything | else; but the young men who formed | the Royal ‘Northwest Mounted Police cared jittle for money, they cared more for honor. The crooks Boon discovered that,the Mounties could not be bought. The crooks departed | Consequently the Mounties were able to ‘maintain law and order with comparatively little trouble. There was some hardship at times, but their foe was ennui. Occasionally greatest t some crok, more obtuse than 0 hers of his kind, believed he could defy'the powers, but he rarely escap-| ed. The force had early set the pre-| cedent of getting their man, and they, usually cid. “Getting” did not mean | shooting him; it meant arresting| him and bringing him ‘on trial. Crooks are the most observant of persons; soon they found it paid to} behave, or get out \ British Columbia has been termed 1 ‘Sea of Mountains,” and there is no doubt that future transcontinent- al airplane passengers will be quite willing to confirm this description. Gold was discovered in Northern) British Columbia shortly after the rush of the ‘“‘forty-niners” to Cali- fornia, and background exists for many virile pictures of frontier con- ditions in this provinee. Also British} Columbia contains a considerable Or- iental population that always can be counted on to add to the picturesque- ness of the communities of which; these people form a part. So Canada is subject to all climatic conditions excepting the tropical; it contains all sorts of people but the blacks. Between its coasts may be fonnd cities, which, if smaller, are! not less advanced and progressive than any on the continent. Within its borders may be found all gradations |of society, from those possessing the advantages of the latest advance- ments of civilization and _ science, down to the most primitive frontier conditions. It would ‘be hard to indicate any) of activities as) being typically ‘“‘Canadian,”’ but per. | haps the keynote might more truly he found in a‘picture of rural life.| that great culture-bed in which Me} the seeds of this young Dominion’s coming greatness: those human el- ements which will go toward shaping the destinies of this virile new tation in the‘course which fate has marked out for her. It is true that the wheat operator of Winnipeg and the dry goods mer- chant of Montreal or Toronto are lit- tle ‘distinguishable from their conn- terparts in Chicago and New York; that the lumber barons of Ottawa are no different from the men who have made their millions in the woods af Michigan; that the'wheat grower in Saskatchewan is not essentially dif- ferent from the grain grower in Kan- sas or the Dakotas; that the rancher in Alberta resembles closely the ‘with your subject. the product lt. J Q | for them ' have offenders brought rancher in Wyoming. °On ‘the other hand, the habitant of. Quebec, - the Northwest Mounted Policeman, the trapper, cruiser and frontiersman of the North are peculiar to Canada now, and because of that fact. they are probably more interesting as sub- jects for fiction than individuals in the more prosaic walks of life.This is undoubtedly true. It is perhaps in- evitable that the mention of Canada / should bring to the minds of people, unfamiliar with the Dominion pict-; ures of habitants, trappers, North-} west Mounted Policemen, snow ice! dog sleds, northern lights, although the great majority of Canadians are, | themselves, as unfamiliar with most} of these things as are the people of} the United States. There is ample scope for imagina-} tion in literature without its being employed in supplying® local color—| this should be true to life at least. | No sound objection can be taken; to the use of the picturesque elements, in our Canadian life by writers, but| it‘is not unreasonable that aggravat-: ed Canadians should demand that the! authors of these “Canadian” stories be familiar with the life which shou they“claim to interpret. It will be readily admitted that it is easier fur a person who has never been farther’ north than Niagara Falls to write a story of the Canadian ‘“northland” than it would be for the same person to write “‘Main Street,” for instance, granting that he or she had never lived west of the Alleghanies. It seems all one bas to do to write a story of the Canadian “‘northland” ts to take equal parts of popular belief and ignorance of actual conditions. add habitants. whiskey runners, bad men and Northwest’ Mounted Police; flavor with a charming maiden; stir ina leven ‘of bizarre imagination and serve under any sensational title with the sub-head: “‘A Romance of the Canadian Northland.”” Then get your’ photograph taken in a bnckskir shirt, if possible. If you can get = carcass Of a mountain goat or a hig horn to share the spotlight with vou the ensemble will be much more ef fective. On the other hand, to write a bool like ‘‘Main Street’’ one must, at leas! be familiar with the cpnditions one would depict. There might he a cert ain amount of ‘controversy regardine: your efforts, but if you are familiar wilt bear some resemblance to reality This, it must be said, !s much more than can be ‘said for virtually all the stories of the Canadian “northland’’| that are being offered today by cur-! rent fiction magazines. | FROM OTHER PAPERS | | a . ,, THOU SHALT NOT KILL BY MO- TOR CAR. ' | H i (Mail and Empire.) | In this city last week two auto! mobilists who were found guilty of manslaughter were sentenced to! terms of imprisonment. In the one} case Mr. Justice Masten sent the con- | victed man to the Penitentiary for! three years, and in the other Mr. Jus-} tice Riddell gave the offender a year} in Burwash Jail. \ In each case the discretion exercis- | ed by the Judge, who might have; made the penalty much severer, will strike most people as according well | with the circumstances. The one| man ran away from his crime. his best to throw pursuerers off the! , track, and in the trial-showed him-! self concerned only to get off. The} other man showed humanity and con-} tribution. Moreover, his record was} as far possible from that of a person | given up to selfishness. Ife had serv-) ed gallantly Overseas and was well! spoken of by' witnesses. When he re-' turns to Hberty be is to abstain from | motor-car driving for ten years. That either of the convicted men had any | thought of hurting anybody, much | less of killing anybody, no one sup-} poses. But the crime each committed) was no less manslaughter than if it) had been an accidental consequence} of an altercation between the killer! !and his victim. That point, strongly} impressed by the Judge in each case, | ought to cause some reckless people to stop and think. ff it is nut natural to take thought for other! people’s safety they may be admon-| ished by these sentences so to drive as to keep themselves out of penitent- iary. There are Muny mauslayers at large who might now be behind the bars had it not been for defect of ev - idence, absence of witnesses, or stn pidity or Ienity on somebody’s part.} whether on the coroner’s jury or in the magistrate’s court. The two casus! just disposed of will, we hope, serve! | as wholesome deterrents to people whose natural recklessness tends to! become fanned to a criminal pitch, when they find themselves in the chauffeur’s seat. We hope the sen-} ' tences imposed by Mr. Justice Masten and Mr. Justice Riddell] will also be! examples to admintistrators of the! law generally. This killing and maim-' ing by automobile must be stopped. The administrators of the law arc not the only people we look to to, make motor-car traffic safe for the) public. The public must do their part, not only in the matter of keeping out) of the way, but also in assisting to; to justice. | The Motor League can do much, so long as it is strong enough not to be! afraid of disciplining its own mem- bers. It ought in some signal way to show its approval of the promptnesa! of Mr. Dodds’ following up of Card.! Had it not been for Mr. Dodds’ in-; stant taking up of the chase and} keeping it up, the slayer of Joseph} Burton might have escaped as com-! pletely as did the slayer of C. A. B.; Brown. { A missionary from the Congo,’ speaking of the characteristics of the} cannibal women said:. “When a cannibal women won't do a_ thing, she won’t and no man can force ber to change ther mind.” men— ! bless 'em—are pretty much ‘the same the world over. 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