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of the IANADA is endeavoring to regain her after-the-war stride in the midst of many difficulties, — debt, deflation and depression being some of them.Quack remedies and academic theories beset her path on everyside. Some suggest that our debt worries can best be eased by going further into debt. Others preach blue ruin, decry their own country and indulge in mischievous propaganda generally, while still others look for a new social order or some miraculous sign to indicate a better coming day—all this in apparent forgetfulness of the fact that just as there was no royal road to win the war, there is now no royal road to pay for it or regain our former buoyancy, vigor and confidence.Some are leaving Canada hoping to escape taxation, only to find there is no escape anywhere. In seeking for easy remedies too many of us overlook the fact that the greatest remedy is honest, hard work faithfully and intelligently performed, accompanied by old-fashioned thrift.It takes time, it takes patience,it takes grit. But every Canadianknows in his heart that Canada is coming through all right.Our Experience Proves ItLook back over the path Canada has trod. The French Colonists, cut off from civilization by 3,000 miles of sea, faced a continent—•• wilder neat,*—without the aid ofeven a blazed trail. They had to fight savages, frosts, scurvy, loneliness and starvation.The United Empire Loyalists subdued an unbroken forest in one generation, growing their first wheat amid the stumps and snags of the new clearing.The Selkirk settlers came to Manitoba when the prairie was a buffalo pasture, and grew wheat where none had grown before and where those who knew the country best at that time said wheat would never grow. Today the Canadian prairies grow the finest wheat in the world.In proportion to population Canada stands to-day among the wealthiest nations in the world, with averagesavings on deposit per family of $800. Canada’s foreign trade per head of population stands amongst the highest of the commercial nations, being $192 per capita in 1922-23. a3 compared with $135 in 1913-14, the “peak year before the war.New Opportunities forCanadaIn Canada, although prices in theworld markets fell below war level, our farmers reaped last autumn the largest grain crop in Canadian history, and Canada became the world's largest exporter of wheat, thus in large measure making up for lowerprices.Last year, Great Britain, after anagitation extending over thirty years,removed the embargo on Canadian cattle, and a profitable and practically unlimited trade is opening up for Canadian stockers and feeders.“ The 20th Century belongs toCanada”—if Canadians keep faith.The next attitle will suggest practical opportunities for prom making on our Canadian farms.Have Faith in Canada▲juhoiisoS Ui itubiniunit S u»cDominion Department of AgricultureJllitUWbLL, Ug. J, U. OiiifclJAMS. n.. .
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Stewart Portland Canal News
Stewart, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Aug 03, 1923
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