HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1964-03-12, Page 1212.. The (roderich Signal -Star, Thursday, March. 12th, 1964
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Worm War 11, Ito said he canie
knew something.
abo!It different parts of,, the
.world but •so little, in compari-
• son ltO 'the life -led by his own
;r ii parents in his Town eou)a
'trey, Canada. Thus, one •d a y
sear •Njeiieiegen in Holland he
decided that after the war ,he
would write a social history of
nom$ d
In„ his reding, 'he said, he
discovered things he had never
"really • been taught at 'school.
He said •he' discovered that Can-
ada had -a frontier, too, just
as the Americans had and other
things, too, that Americans had,
"In saying that Canada hada
frontier, I mean a 'place where
the society of men is overtaken
and subdued by the society of
iter *and free land, much as it
was in the United States.
Wild Life
"The men 'of the frontier Creat-
ed
reated 'a wild, disorderly, free-
wheeling, undisciplined society.
N'QW,. if n eetneess, is to be Made-
of these settlements made by
the men, if the wealth is to be
•real;ized and tuened,'to use, not
merely shipped back across the
ocean, a settled'society is need-
ed. The women come in:, With
the women come schools, hos-
pitals, churches, all the para-
' Canada. women,' The men who are „big phernalia of government and a
Por a suitable. background to, boys" whb think in terms of settled society•
write he read Mitch. In his' pleasure, excitement and ad -1
"For a while the. two are at
reading he discovered many ventur(.;' leave the , older, settled! war, the society of the' frontier
, things including frequent refer- countrie:i • and •go• to pl'aees and the settled domestic so-, was strictly demanded. The
ences 'to "Tiger" Dunlop, "An jwhere there is no society but cu ty. In every case the settled farm tenant stepped off the
odd and' fascinating character."' where there k• great wealth to ; society wins. The women, as footpath when he met his land-
1y'hat he read prompted hint to he found at little cost. In our.we might expect, triumph, But, lord, All people were very
tthe Wild and keenly aware of t
writ(, a book en "Tige't." ; ea•e the great wealth was tine''n reaction agains,the existence
_____-____._._..._. _ . W __ ;rough- society of the frontier, of their betters. This -did not
th-e most .severe and puritanical 'it well with people who were
kinds of disciplines are impos- becoming ;conscious of the
ed. The kind of ,very tight, equality of leen. People who
straight-laced, moral atmos- were being taught by their
phere in which most of us grew Methodist teachers that all men"'ter 'rrwiiiell da't7� , 's ' lri}clt=t3r3 of �i-�Ertrci- bl
ing, th etheater, all kind: of fore all men were brothers.
arn,usementk, let alone. drink- l''or these. as well ,as economic
inge the theater, all kinds of '1'rasone, tens 'of thousands , of
ered that f mentioned earlier;
was that Canada offered free-
dom jag as tie United States
dide American education, and
American writes seem to have
staked 'out for" themselves a
monopoly •uf the idea pft Ameri-
ca being the land of x1ie free.
"The people .-who canie to
Canada from Great Britain, and
they were the 'greatest part of
our immigration, came,. from
an extremely stratified society.
They came, from a society in
which they could never hope
to own land, seldom hope to
own their own houses. They
must always be under a sort
of obligation to a landlord. The
respect. owed to one's. better
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and made from. them _their own
lye., They 'saved, 'the fat to
mix With the ly'e f.o make their
own soap. They learned- 'to
make rennet to make , their
own cheese. They made their
own candles. They spurt the
wool and Wev.la the wool to
make blankets and clothes.
They found time to cook for thew
men and to rear their children.
. Children of Huron
"This is a quick way of con-
veying -to you the trial and the
ordeal - of establishing a settle-
r>jrertt in this . country. • From
ase people sprang • the child-
ren who farmed and shaped
Canada. 'From the Huron, from
the Bruce, from Victoria and
York -Counties came the people
who. 'went west, and were the
business men, the teachers?, the
preachers, the lawyers,.the
.doctors: It was out of the trial most of us is 'for heaven's
and the •.ordeal of the settlinglsake let them make up their
of this part of the country, out minds and decide what they
of • the severe and rigid disci- want and get. on with -it and°
plines imposed in reaction to stop troubling us—we will find
the, frontier, that the character, a way of living with them..' ,
tette me i featl•^•trf--en r t•a-i ,• 1t w' - • ' 'I '1rel
emerged. -.One is' tempted to inditl'ere'nt attitude to'them we
shy that Canada came from the may drive them to an absolute
eradleY:�of the Huron, a - separatism and I think we'
of` the Diehl- This 'absolutely : !hem left the comfort -of Eng- Not, today, ve must ask our- sneulii think for a minute about
z `erre., land -
0., . t�i ,tnr;t,.. is tl1e . !and' and eanle tc)-..th4.1...c1.11.;r 44.1-t•4ws-�-vrive,� his-- 1aherr.- -ss riour 'l "c' without itebec:`Wi
p,b �...,.� x ' Quebec to
cllt'rct reaction a., 1st the i.ld;'rl' this new land- Item worthwhile;' •and +'hAhey'ou, the' wealth of
and •disorderly life o1' the ,fron- Feeling of Freedom !here is any paint in trying to',contribute its share to the gov-
'i,•r. �ir'n h:ltr' to b;' to i 11.' :,,� tq..- :'►lsurc the ronlinllatio►1 of c, ,
rn►al,en, income, I think we
le -fore ;IL'1 (•;le b.` alloNl'. d :1 TI, ' After a very few year's their Canada as a►1 111('1(?pendent would have to accept a much -
!•r, :'dont: ',r•;, r:, , horuc• re•oundcd With `'oll►lt};,�,-,y ,lower standard of public ex-
• ( . ;. -"°" VArtaW nenditu 'e, There ,woftld be
The Same "H -ere - ,1r joy of lite fl e litl:, of fre (• 'A Sheltered Life
1(.. i money. to provide veil sub -
••Thi: i; the story in the knit- 1001, (rt' britt;;, their o1l'n nen. "t'i'c' hie led, commercially-•-• ,
arlii remember a�ricullurc is a•'sidies, pensions„na€ional,health,
ed St,ates: • this i the store •111 rive had rlchit,1 cd what tiro.~( defense national research to
Czinada. It is �� hat_sct the tone Haver could hope to achieve iii fparl of commerce-- 'a sheltered
he old country . They settl.e,d.� lit'( We have hl e n. sheltered •services to our • s th tars
,)t` Canada for th; �, ,
last nearly . •. l abroad • all the thiil�s that a
. 1t, �b)• tariffs,lay Imperial prefet'•
1(Jt) years. �n land they owned.. They own- ! country must undertake for its
-Another 'thing that' I. discov'- , '(1 their houses. They owned 1 once u)' the technological rend !country
this new free trade world or
are we going to seek sheltea in
some sort of economic union
with the U}aite,d States?
F•ce R'evolutio'n
"Now—,,, we have a revolution
in our midst. The, French Can-
adians,_ after almost 200 years
of sleep, have wakened up.
They are demanding they
shpuld no longer be servants,
they should no longer be-- a
quaint bnck•wa•t!er, preserving.
religious, attitudes and folk
ways of another century. They
are coming -into this centum
and are angry and ashamed of
themselves for their p.wn• back-
wardness and are demanding all
the old-fashioned attributes of
statehood t and nationalism.
Most of us •here,, I think, are
indifferent to' the French ,pro-
blem. I think the• attitude of
amaziltru r0i.arlrrrl• ..
''114'1r livestock. 'The whole pro
fit of the sweat of thccrr brow
went -to their own advantage”
i incl that of their children; They• ewe
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Int• m n had no Sipe r lc r,e e
Panit al` assistance of thy' united
States; Quebec Important
,.We.._ h•a-' e• l'ed,• politically.. a ...,_.._ . .,.
sheltered life. \4'c'. laad•whrlcl no'' ' '� -e'-'' •-'
' in'deael�'igorous
slid not need to ask *anybody' revolution, the rebellion of 1837 current of trade within the
for_ ens thin., This feeling or was simply' a violent reform. i country. We might find;" •«•illy
clue: this sense' of inrlti�pen41
—We have had no wear for na- ! nilly, that we must Blake an
Hone] 'survival. The war ofl economic union with thc_United
ten '111 �in''ECstn�a.cla e is ni file
1812 atva.s action on 1 States which could only be fol-
• �in1p1) ',an 1 11i..',i stales. but somehow, the pitt-of the Ifnited Srate';'to Ilowed by a political union. We
�l hen 'T was at school'. 'Wh �ne dri'1•1 the British out •of the i might -find that .our survival as
tact 1o!rl Inc' about this., wc.t1'rn t'ur trad,c, a nation is dependent upon. our
- .Now, today, we face, an en- union with Quebec., °
e1r :pru )� r to:)l� .111 cutting
clown
tired)• new worl(1 of ronlnle'rce.;• '•
',�lld so, I think we must. ask
1 111 1 111,� 111 l` (`on1010 11 it k '1
ic)urselv(s if otrr survival as a
elle enormous forest,, The \1'(1--hn. •poin ed tile'' 'way. 'l'hr d'�
111•':) had no . more lrninin;�.nation is wort.}1 whip, Anel if
1'hc y , 1t n2'd to strs r 1111 ishc,r mantis' for freer lra(1' through- it i,;, what is its price, t.s hat
e)ul 11•1r world circ' (coin:;'. to he: ',11 we willing Lo Work out With
�. _ • nl' t. I irt� old })1,;l�ctc(1 nlal- (2,h,e}t;;S;....111... gg , le..:�.,K1.1.. e
t ia:t-.iesee hat,. moo. 144111.:..,.1-#LIarala
think 'this question is being a lc
cd enough in this country and•1
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'Are we going l'o striW out -into think fleet we here tonight must
it
and'emerge as a sclf•operat- ask ourselves if the great feat
• ine, irelependr'nt nlemi'er of --the clearing of the foi'e•. t and
the finding of -liberty 4nd inde-
'-11endcnce lir this hafd, u•nwel-
'c'oming new land, has produced
any'thii g lasting, anything ,,in;
terms of character and intelli-
Igence and a11titudes,towards the
k',°'orld that is worthy to survive
Win. Lions
Bonspiel
change, the sunsets over. Lake
Huron would not change. But
what would change? Our point.
oi* `view would change. '• .
`•`Would 'our self-`especf, our
sense of our own personal idene
tity? Would our own pride in
ourselves 'be changed? Wbuld
we feel, each of us, as much.
of a person as he does now if
he admitted that 111 the, .travail
that had Ono. before im bad
not pr.-oduced, anything tt•hat was
'worthwhile? I do not know but
I do know that each of us must
find an answer. And Within a
matter of a few years' we have
to decide."
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On ''behalf of the club, the
guest speaker was thanked by,
J. H. Kinkead and presented
with a ,Beni'niller blanket by
Peter MacEwan.
Guests present included Dr.
Allen Stephen from the Ontario
Hospital staff and Magistrate
Glenn Hays. '
Committee Chairmen
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Mat: Ainslie 'outlined' The
sparkling program to be' pre-
sented' at the second annual
Gala Sports Night of the
Knights of -Columbus - Blue -
water Shrine Club at the Gode-
rich Memorial Arena on Friday
evening, March 6. The -Easter
Seals campaign in aid 'o crip-
pled children was related by
the chairman, Sam .Anderson.
He stated $1,600 was raised, last
year and it was hoped that bhie
sum Auld be larger this year. ,
1'h6 chairman of the Young
Canada Week Committee, Alvin
,hVleGee, told of progress__. being
made in arranging for this out-
standing. annual event. Ile add.
ed that this year Goderich
homes would :be needed to bil-
let visiting players right ,from
the start of the .schedule to the
end, of it..
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C fiCFMTE REDAIR.•
A • rink Skipped by1t•,vie'011-its own,
Kuenzie Won the annual l:ions Point 'of View
curling bonspiel at Stt•al-
ford on :Wednesday 'of last week.. do not think the''m'aterial
Otheir Members of thi' t ant, life of, any ,of :us 'would change
which had three wins and a greatly if we decided ".no." The
plus of nine, were Bob Sproule,
r3ill •Lunlby'. and Pat Osborn,
Another rink skipped by _Don
MacEwen also competed along
with rinks from eBrtrssel•s, Sea -
forth, Exeter, Galt, Sebringville
and -Stratford. • • •
4 On the same day at Listowel,
a. Godcrich rink, composed o1' 1
Square aT 'Goderich would not
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John Schaefer, peter MacEWan, CAR FROM
Bruce Sully- and Jim B'ritn.ell
placed third., in 'a bonspicl there,
The: members of the Goderich
rink, 'just for a lark, each wore
beetle wigs.'" They threaten to
wear same at the next meeting.
of, the Lions *Club.. •
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