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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1966-04-21, Page 3• Centennia Report CUT YOUR OWN FIREWOOD FAST! I Pick yours up now WHILE ppIFICIAL DISCOUNT PRICES APPLY at your neighbour hood chartered bank branch! Open and build a Family Expo 67 Tour Account. Be sure your family sees Expo 67 —April 28 to Oct. 27 at Montreal. THE CHARTERED BANKS SERVING YOU AND YOUR COMMUNITY 'ME BRUSSIBILS POST, nitussnxi0 ,ozsraimutp TH. aRSDAY, APRIL. 21,t, 0.00 FARMERS! call 1867 1067 CENTENNIAL ISHER COMMISSIONER by JOHN W. F PRODUCTS SERVICE ADVICE When you call your Imperial Esso Agent, you call on the total resources of Imperial Oil TELEPHONE: When I took over the job or organizing' Canada's biggest celebration in history I ran into a number of pessinfists, even a few cynic ;r, This is the sort of line they gave me; "Canadians aren't noisy patriots. You'll nave a tough job stirring up much flag wav- ing for 1967." Well, some of their, facts were correct but the spirit in which those few pessimists presented their' views to me was not what I accept as Canadian. 1 have tra- velled long and far enough /11 this country to know that Cana- dians really have strong positive feelings about their country. I could agree with some of the statements by my pessimistic friends if they were in a different context. 'Canadians are not .given to wild demonstrations of patriot ism in their own country. Such things can ernbara.ss us. I believe our kind of nationalism, is more thoughtful than emotional and that is why I believe fervently that our Centennial, :be a successful and meaningful event in our history. Yes we may have difficulty at times in deciding what we are, what we are for and wnat we are against in the world. But we know what home is and though we may be embarrassed to express it„we love our laticl Perhaps f dis- covered this throtigh travel abroad when I met Canadians far from. home. When we are world travel- ing we are mere -apt to open up and reveal to other people our in- aer thoughts about our country. One particUlar instance conies to, my mind. I Was breakfasting at, a small hotel in London, P4ngland, a few years ago and became en- gaged in conversation with a young man across the table from 111A lie was a Canadian working at an airline office in London. With no prodding from me he poured out all his thoughts about home and abOut Canada. "I'm not a. nationalist." he said: "In fact I'm against, nation- , TA _IMO, alism, It causes a lot of trouble 'iii the world. That's why I like country. We're not aggressive nationalists. But really, mister," he said, "It's hard to describe my feelings about nw country." He thought his feelings for his home- land was not just the house he was born in brick hi Ontario, nor was it necessarily his home town. It was the lake country where he used to go on canoe trips in the summer, the big rushing rivers and the roads' that go forever. "I always felt if I couldn't find a job in Canada I could al- ways go to the north country and trap and hunt — something one couldn't do over here — and at least make a living," he said. admited it was just a "fancy of the mind" — probably he'd starve — but Canada alwayS gave him a feeling of security, he said. "I always felt the Rockies or the Gaspe wilderness were Mine, even though I didn't go there every weekend. (I only saw the Rockies once.)" The. young man went on, ex- posing, ills mind and being very sentianeatal and Patriotic,' I thought to myself he probably would be far too inhibited and embarrassed to talk like that back home. Prom; now to 1967 Canadians, as individuals and in groups, large and small, are anding way8 to express their true feelings about Canada, I'll tell you more about these in' future reports. • WORLD'S. I.IGIRTEST DIRECT-DRIVE •CHAIN SAW • ONLY t2 LBS.* - Why pay high prices.for cordwood - .when it's so easy to cut your ,own - 'with the new Homelite XL-12 the world's lightest Direct-Drive chain saw. . The 12-pound XL-12 cuts through 12-inch logs in 10 seconds, fells trees up to 3 feet in diameter. Gaso- line engine driven, it's completely portable, So light and small anyone can carry it long distances without effort. So safe and simple can. operate it, *less bar and. chain NAPE A FREE DEMONSTRATiON T0001 GEO. SOMERS' Brussels, Ont. Tel: 47J Clean up your Property now! MUTTER. {BRUSSELS, ONT. for: PASSEPORT POUR LA TERRE DES HOMMES .14 exp067 PASSPORT TO MAN. AND HIS WORLD • WOW. 14/ • t• erni•lugor.144 'Or Se IN WON IMMO 17