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C1CNQW ;SENTINEL,, Z.UCKNOW,, ONTARIO
WEDiN,ESPAY, DElc. 6t
Dq you ` now • something? We
:haven't any national character.
There's no such thing as a, "type-
cal Canadian." We're just' a
vagnie, unformed glob, of human
•• beings who happen to live in the
same vast hunk of geography:.
Isn't that a #ne state of affairs,
with Christmas ' coming . on, and
everything?' •
I learned this while reading,, a
couple of new .books' about Can-
ada this week. The ' authors
seemed not only ;disturbed, but
.displeased because they were un
able to put down a listof ads
j ectives, . point triumphantly arid
say, "There you arell A typical
Canadian.'.'
This search for a 'Canadian
identity has beeome- a• regular
parlor game anaxon g writer's arid
• intellectuals, I find 'the whole
problem, remarkably undisturb
rather 'be a typieal. human
being' than ,a.` typical Canadian.
Have you ever-notieed that when
people' say, ."He's a' typical • Ann-
erican" (or Englishman,. French-
• man, G,errinan), they don't 'mean.
'it as, a compliment? •
T e,.
However,. in the interests of.
puf a truth I thought ` 'I'd look .
back through . a number oaf friends
and:. acquaintances and see whe
ther I ,could -come upwith a
•tytiirnl Canadian;, after -more. than
40 years of consorting with the
species;
There . was • a •hpge, happy,.
lively -tongued, • 'quick-witted fel
low with whom L ,once trained
as a pilot, in the dead of a ty, pi
cal Canadian winter:, He' didn't
'have : any • special. advantages .of
• wealth; schooling or social '.posit`
• tion: But Jake , Gaudaur,.:president
of the 'Hamilton Tiger -Cats ,foot -
'ball club, is doing all right, these
days: A typical Canadian?
There was a skinny,. starved-
1oolcing. little. guy, at collegeWho
was so shaky, physically and fin-
ancially, ` that I didn't :think .he'd'
graduate. But he had a wicked
wits • and a • wonderful way with
Words. 'His.'•. name was .Jamie. As
Professor James 'Reaney, poet,.
'..playwright, novelist and, editor of.
'a new .magazine, he's doing all
right. A typical`' Canadian?
And.. Chuck. 'His old .man was
• ' . a Ukrainian. We ' were in prison
;camp together and when ' the, Rus-,
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ill:' 'Smiley
sians were getting close he taught
me to say,, "Dont shoot!" in Rus-
sian He was a first-rate cartoon-
ist and . last I heard he was in
Vancouver. , A typical Canadian?
And three Georges. One wag
a quiet. Student,, .who bought, a
Belgian pistol 'from me after ,the
war and paid me, $10. more than
it wasworth, because I needed.
the' money.He's ' managing these.
days, between • directing. plays :at
Stratford and: • on television. • A
typical Canadian? •
• * .+.
• Another •George repaid the
Yank • for burning York in the war
of •1812.; He Went over to Wall
St., .made a million before' he w•as
forty, and carried • it' •, gleefully
back. to his northern lair: A typi-
cal
ypicai Canadian?
There was 'the French-Canadi.,
an kid who worked with me at.
bellhop on .the lake boats, before
the war. When 'he 'started that•
summer, he •' knew •. only three
words of ' English,. all of • them
bad. I'Couldn't help hooting when
I, saw his name in the paper the
other day -=4 distinguishedmem-
'ber of . the = clergy 'in Quebec: A,
typical 'Canadian?'
There were, a couple of young
screwballs who wrote .and• •play-
ed •in 'comedy . skits when: 'I was.
at university. • Next ' time I• saw
them was in a''trooip' show,' over-
seas They had improved.:: I• saw
them on television the other night.
They're . getting by, as Wayne. &
Shuster; Typical. Canadians? •
:'Them•there's Dutbeh. Once • ,a,
Wild'" and •. woolly Australian; he
taught . me' to fly Spitfires,': an ;
England He:7 came here' :after the:
war and is ',happy ; 'as . 'a trout,
hotly, pursuing his: first million' in
Toronto. A . typical Canadian?'
The .third "George used to:' be a
Czech: 'He . Was in a concentration
camp,' during the war.. Now ..he's,
dentist in Canada,.. has a . split-
.level.home, a• two.car garage, and
a -. real . aversion` to, paying so
much income tax. A' typical' •Can-..
adian?':
I, can . think of • a dozen 'others.,
The country'is full of character's,
but, 'there's no such thing as
"typical Canadian" any more than
there' is an "average man". I, for
one, -am heartily glad of. it. Who.
wants . to 'be a "typical"? Do
you want to be., a typical farmer,'
or typical merchant," or typical.:.
laborer; or typical: ica1: housewife? Or
even a 'typ1 millionaire? Not
a• bit of it. No more than I want.
to . be • a typical school teacher..
The only. 'thing the characters
above have in common ' is that
they live in this country and love:f
it: . And • that goes'• for me, too.'
How about you?
Bhe is fond ly ,remembered fort
,her consecrated tiriselfish services,
at each ,of their pastorates in
Bryanston, Lucknow (Ashfield
Circuit), !Springfield; Stratford
(Parkview' United Church), ,Clip:,
ton • (Wesley -Willis), Essex, Tor-
()kW
or-o 4g, (Wesley), Kintore and
Brooksdale.
She created a warm Christian
home for. her husband and four
daughters by living up to the'•
high ideals ' she taught. The great
love which ,b.ound her family • to
gether is a imonuinent to her •life
as . a wife . and mother.
Although her family and home
were her •first conce'rn,,. she al-.
ways found time' for all the spir-"'
itual and social 'aspects of 'the..
church life as attested by her far
reaching influence. on the many
young people in. the church and
Sunday. School. The ..ladies also:
honoured•• her 'with a life mem-
bership in the' Wornen's Mission-
ary Society.
She was predeceased• by her,
parents, two. brothers,' Dr., Fred=
erick' Brown; 1929, . and iarold
W. Brown, September,.. -1961, and.
her ' daughter,.. Revs- E. Marguerite
Cosens, August, 1961,• ,
She will. be ' sadly missed by
her husband, thre,,e daughters,
Kathleen, (Mrs. J.' A. Ross).; of
Itancouver,' Eleanor ('Mrs, J. • L
McFadden) of St. 'Catharines and
Bernice; (Mrs. R.' 'F..Willis),ai of
Matheson, '- eight grandchildren &
'2. brothers, Edgar C. Brown of
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Wife • ''Of :.Former
Minister Passes;
Lillian. Ray Brown Cosens
The funeral service for the
late Lillian' Ray ,Brown, beloved
.wife of Rev, IC: W.DeWitt :Cosens'
was conducted' at Trinity United..
Church, Uxbridge, . Ont., on Nov-
ember 25th, 1961, The Rev. Don
ald day. of Uxbridge officiated,
'assisted, by long "'tithe faPtily
friends, Rev. Stanley Johnston of
Toronto and Rev. Enos Hart of
Weston,. A short service and inter-
ment 'followed in Listowel •Cefrie-
tery. •
Mrs. Cosens Was born in Corn-
wall,
Ont., bri January 8th, .1891,
the daughter• of ' the well --known
pharmacist, Ezra Healey, Brown.
She attended school in Cornwall
and 'dntario Ladies Cot•lege" in'•'
Whitby. .She took ' her teacher's
s training in TbrOnto arid taught':
in the Cornvafi area before her
marriage .on A ugttst 17th, 1918,,
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MILLION CANADIANS.;
is our
A, .housewife in Hamilton ; a
youngster in Yarmouth . , a fanner in
Fruitvale?
Frankly, We'd just be guessing This
year 'our total .customers 'soared above
the 'three -million mark. ° But; which new
customer in Our network. of 875 branches
was . the one 'between 2,999,999 and
3,000,001,, we have no way of knowing.
But we o *know 3 -millionth cus-
tomerwill probably use the. B of M, in
many ways ... to save' ,for. the things he
wants, to finance' his automobile at. low
cost, to pay his household bills and to
:keep his' valuables safe.
If he is a businessman, he 'might use
..Canada's 'first bank. to finande his' day-to-
day operations, to,.pay his ei'iployees, . to
collect andremit money the' world over
if he .is a farmer; "MY: BANK" might
be called upon to finance :new trucks,
modern barns and labour-saving electri-
cal equipment. '
• Hes very ' important to us, that .3-.
millionth customer: Never before :in our
long history have we been privileged to"
serve so many: W,e number'With a good.
pride of those three million eKpres-
sions of trust from people who call they
Bank of Montreal "MY BANK";
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