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I.—Crayon sketch a Viscount Willingdon dr* vr on board Empress of Scotland jusr prior to the vessel sailing far Canada.
2. --Crayon sketch of Viscountess Willisigdon drawn on board tin. Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland just prior
to the vessel's departure for Canada.
A.—A./nary iinseti Cairn Terrier, belonging to Their Excellencies which gained instant popularitY.
.1.—Menu card designed for use on Empress of Scotland when sae corded the Governor-Ceneral to Canada, showing
on a map of the world the various positions held ai/ over by the Empire M Viscount Wildngdon.
.5. --Canadian Pacific Flagship Empress of Scotland which carded Their Excellendies to Canada.
'Their Excellencies Viscount aml Visa-nude:is Willingdon
made many friends int their voyage feels England to
Quebec on board the Canadian Pacific flagship Empress of
Scotlargi, when Ills -Lordship came here in 0t.,,-)er to become
Governor-General of the Dominion, The:, i,aid visits to all
parte of the vessel chatting with new eettler •r Camela and
presiding at the various iunctione-that take •., -,• as1 ,hip
during an mean exaelge. Sharing their pol - -..., their
Cairn Terrier, Misty, who ts•tie friends wise ••• except ,
perhaps a plump Chow who lisoked to hint ..- • -ee might
develop into a dangerous rival.
Canada's thirteenth Governer-clenerai h tine reception j
when the ship docked at Quote... He a tactful note I
when he told his French-Canedian audig . he too could
claim descent from the Normara and that 1. S blood flowed
in his veins equ:Illy a. in theirs. "In thie ery," he said,
"the descendants of our two races have \o for many
years under the British -Crown Inc a cowman purpose and
, object, namely, to promote the welfare and prosperity of the
I people of this wonderful country."
! Firet impreesione ere \ itid in establishing successful mkt,
tions and perhaps no impreasian ave so cordial an effect as
One of !Lis Lordship's speeches anoard the Empress ot Scot-
; land, which was broatkast all over Canada, In it he
1"I wonder if I may venture 1, add one word of rather an
inthunte and perremal character. It is this -in uishing
my fellow -passengers the hest ‘,1 go1 luck in the future and
all health and happiness they can poeeffily expect and nhtilin,
may 1 -ask them one and all to give an oceasional thought -
a kindly thought -to one who it about to undertake very
grave responsibilities Inc the British Empire in the great
Dominion of Canada."
That is the true democratic note, sounded with modesty
and feeling and sure of an unreeerved responee throughout the
length and breadth of Canada.
Will:ng lops Brrng FinestliratRions b Rideau Hall
Sprang From Old English Yeoman
Stock With Roots Deep in Re-
cords of Race --Families Emerg-
ed into Diplomatic Life After
Great Fortunes Were Amassed in
Railway Age - His Excellency
Outwitted Ghandhi
A penetrating pen will some day
write a history of Rideau Hall
which will hinge upon the persomd-
ities of its various vice -regal occu-
pants. There have been laye whe.n
devotion to the arts and to litera-
ture were the ruling passions, days
when the glamor of royalty made
the Hall the focus point of all eoc-
tal eyes; there were days when sci-
ons of Britain's oldest and finest
aristocracy tilled the King's mace in
his biggeat Dominion.
In October it will 'yield to the
sway of as interesting a pair as
ever held its goversince . in their
hands, Lord and Lady Willimplon
are not far/el/far to the average
newspaper and magazine reader.
not because of laele of achievement,
but because their duties have been
carried out with so little sensation
Or appeal to lurid interest, thnt
gossip and small talk have had -little
to dowith their names.
They are of quite different aim.);
to the last few fernlike to occupy
the seat of government. Though
hearing a title of high degree, they
are not aristoerats in the serve in
which Lord and Lady Bye e were of
the aristocracy, or the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire. They be-
long to that exceedingly testi:resting
class of English, the yeoman stock.
Their family records go back in his-.
toxy far beyond the origin of many
of England'e most famous titled
families.
A Historic Family
A family originating in the days
of Elizabeth, or of the. Stuarte
i where indeed, many great famil-
ies had their beginnings), is r tgard-
ed as fairly historic. But the fam-
ilies of both Lord and Lady Wil-
lingdon tractt their way far beyond
that, ,even to Norman timet. In
spite of what may have gone on in
London, the coming and going of
dynasties, front Plantagenete all the
way dawn to the House of Windsor
these yeomen of England have
clung to the eon of thole native
land with a tenacity that preserved
them intact as a clam. They re-
garded with a sort of toleration the
risc of many aristocratic fareiliee,
but treeteured to themselves more
highly the descent from lather to
son of rich farms, of old manor
houses, of thoroughbred cattle and
ancient woods, and all that they
stood Inc.
The reeent evolution of these,
Jarnilies inekes fascinating, reading.
Until the railway age their class
wee eafeguardeil, but the invasion
of remote parte of England bY
and the conversion of distant
country districts into mere adjuncts
of manufacturing cities has, alas,
smelled change to a • large pert of
this old yeoman stock. Three or
four generations have seen .he ei-o-
lution of the English -farmer irto
busineseman and administratoe.
Galswirnthy in his Fornyte stinks
traces the fortunes of one old yeo-
man faintly. Stanley 13aldwin is
himself an example of the evolu-
tion, The love of the soil still
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roses .divert his tired brain from
polities, The son of a great manu-
facturer, he finds his vocation in
politics.
Railway Development
Coal and steel spell railways. The
early part of the nineteenth century
saw the development of the -giant
eieiter industries., manufacturing
and transportation.
Frederick Freeman Thomas, fath-
er of Lord Willingdon, was a great
iron and coal merchant. When
Freeman Freeman -Thomas complet-
ed hie education there was no nec-
essity for his entry into business.
The family had acquired its wealth.
The next step was, therefore, poli-
tics, and the diplomatic life. The
evolution of the Thomas family had
reached that point.
In the meantime the same thing
had been happening in the Brassey
family. Lady Willingdon's grand-
father was a friend of George Ste-
phenson, of railway fame, Through
him he secured his first contract.
He married a daughter of the first
resident of the new town of Bilken-
head, child of the railway age. She
encouraged him to bezome a con-
tractor, and eventually he becaine
probably the greatest contractoe in
the world. He built part of the
Grand Trunk Railway; he built rail-
ways in Great Britain, in India, in
Argentina, in Italy, in Dorno a and
elsewhere, When his son, Lady
Willingdon's father, COMO to man-
hood, he too had acquired to much
of this world's veils that a busi-
ness career was unneceseary. He
too, took to politics. Twenty years
as a member Inc Hastings, then an
official of the navy clepeatment, and
then he became governor of Vic-
toria, Australia. It was here that.
the two .great yeoman families
ere.esed trails, Freemen Freeman -
Thomas Went through Eton and
Cambridge. At Cambridge for hie
two senior years he was captain of
the cricket eleven, and led his team
to victory in a contest out •of which
Cambridge graduates are etill able
to get a vicarious 'thrill. When his
left college, and after a few years'
traveb he became attached to the
camp of Lady Willingdon's father a$
aide-de-camp.
Lady Willingdon was the Hon, 0
Marie Adelaide 13rassey, one of
Lord Brasseyie three charming, (NU- b
&ors, who with their clever moth- ti
.ere roamed all over the Woald Itte
the famous sailing yacht, The Sun-
beam, Of thoee wanderings the
mother's faelle pen Isept a record,
and the publication Of her diariee
made her One of the most popular
writers of her day. In Canadiait
libraries there ure to thi lay b alky
volumes, profusely illustrated With
phokneraphs and sketch's, front
those trips on which the merry fam-
ily became so well acquainted with
the world, Lord Brassey'e tiile,
like Lord Willingdon's, was confer.
red as a reward for important im-
perial services,
Best British Traditions
Backed, therefore, ley the beet
traditions of the finest British stock
familiar with remarkable. achieve •
ments in commerce and industry,
and personally so closely lesociated
with the administration of civil
government, Lord Willingdon has
Much to offer to Canada. In 1919
Lord Willingdon was made governor
of Bombay presidency in India, in
authority over thirty million people
of mixed races, in British and nat-
ive -ruled states. One of the power-
ful princes in his presidency was
Gaekwar of Barodia. He was there
throughout the war when Bombay,
as the Indian port nearest to Eur-
ope, was --the channel for that great
flood of soldiers that went from In-
dia to help win the war in the west.
So successful was the administra4
tion that he was persuaded a the
end of his term to proceed south to
the presidency -of Madras (which,
by the way, became British under
the same treaty by which Canada
was ceded to Britain,) where he had
forty-three millions under hie ad-
ministration. There he was so suc-
cessful in securing native co -opera-
tion that he completely frustrated
the plans of Ghandi to stir up the
Hindus against British rule. From
the splendor of his Oriental prest-
dencies, Lord Willingdon returned
home with Lady Willingdon to Eng-
land in 1924. There his remark-
able knowledge of the Oriental mind
was called into use in the matter
of the Boxer indemnity, which was
complicated by the present pelitical
state of China, X4is mission took
him across Canada and he had a
bird's-eye view of the country. He
was in China. when the tee sitese
reached him, inviting him to be
Canadian Governor-General.
On his return to London, Lord
Willingdon made a speech in which
he recounted some of his impres-
sions of Canadians. The two char-
acteristics which seemed to impreee
him most were the confidence iand
the optimism of the country. Ile
concluded by a shnple statement
that was almost a VOW. This is
what he said:
"I am edetermined, so far as- it
lies in me, to do my utmost to ie -
sure the prosperity and progress of
the great dominion,"
Son Died in War
Lady Willingdon is a very charm-
ing woman. Bred in an atmos-
phere of public service, sne has
been a valuable asset to ,her dis-
tinguished, husband. She has suf-
fered, too, and carries withia Iter
heart a grief that will make her
kin to . Canadian women who even
little- silver war crosses. Her eld-
er son, doing his "bit" ill FrItT1CO.
vanished with the host of missing
mens It was in the battle of the
Aisne, •in 1914, that he "went west"
and no man has discovered what his
fate was. Not among the dead, or
the wounded, not ainong the pris-
oners was he found. There are
many Canadians who can sympath-
ize with thew folks "set in author-
ity over us" who shared the eft -
mon sorrow of the war, Their
second son, Capt. Inigo Freeman -
Thomas, now the heir to his fath-
dr's honoree is married to a claugda.
ter of Sir Johnstone Forbes -Robert-
son,
On the return of Lord Willing -
don to Hastings, which he had re-
presented in the House of Com-
mons, he took it hand in the return
to Quebec City of the shield which
had been taken from one of the
gateways in the conquest of Quebec
There seems little doubt but ',Oast
Lord and Lady Willingdon will b
personally popular In Canada, Level
Wiaingdon is a sportsman, noted
for carrying into all his daily deal-
ings the principles of fair play. He
is genial, in spite of his natural re-
serve; he is fine looking, tall, bronz-
ed, tentacular, and looks tee years
less than his sixty yeaes. He is a
fine French scholar, has a broad
knowledge without being a bookish
man, and is well yorsed in financial
affairs, Lady Willingdon is a wor-
thy ,daughter of one ef the noblest
women of her age, the late Lady
Brassey, whose charities were fam-
us. Much of her sweetness, her
ortitude andher graciouenees have
tet transmitted to Lady Willing -
On, who is also- a charming host -
,is rrn1 it WhInall of brtlad
gene°.
October will see the beginning of
the Willingdon regime in the ett-
ting of Rideau Hall.
[Here Ltrldi here
The reeently ortennized egg at
poultry pool in Saskatchewan has
17,000 members. Egg production 'n
that province is 33,672,261 dosen
yearly. Saskatchewan is new the
eecond largest poultry producing
province in Canada, Ontario being.
first,
St. Catharines -The North Amer-
ican celery championship has' been
awarded to James Little of this city
by the American Vegetable Grow-
ers' Association, convening in Cleve-
land. The high quality of Canadian
celery has long been recognized and
this new triumph is expected to far-
ther stimulate production.
The Australian Cricket Team,
heroes of five test, matches against
England this summer, arrived in
Canada on the -Canadian Pacific
liner Montrose, October Sth. After
visiting some of the principal cities
in Canada and the United States,
the team proceeded to Vancouver
where they sailed on M.S. Aorangi
for their homes in Australia, Oc-
tober 21st.
POI' the third year in succession
the McAdam First Aid Team front
New Brunswick carried off the
"Grand Challenge Trophy," ere-
blematic of the eastern lines first
aid championship of the Canadien
Pacific Railway. The contpetition
was held recently at the Place Viger
Hotel in Montreal, four other tearns
from points enst of Fort William
competing.
The oldest employee of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway in point of
service, Isaac Gouverneur Ogden,
vice-president in charge of finance,
celebrated his 82nd birthday Octo-
ber 10th. He has served the Com-
pany for 44 years and his business
experience goes back to the Civil
War days. Mr. Ogden was tile
recipient of felicitations from all
parts of the Dominion,
General Booth, head of the Salva-
tion Army, sailed recently from
Vancouver on the Canadian Paeifie
liner Empress of Canada aor Japan,
The General will tour Japan, China '
and Korea. True to his maxim of
not touching food for two days pre-
vious to a sea voyesee, the General
contented himself with sipping a
little hot water while attending to
his correspondence and waiting for
fhe liner to sail.
Toronto -The New York Times is
about to invest $25,000,000 in north-
ern Ontetrio Inc the production of
all of its newsprint• -about 550 tons
a day. The announcement Ot this
pruject was made by the secretary
of the president, Adolf Ochs, during
the sojourn of both in this city. The
site selected for the paper plant is
at Kapuskasing where there is al-
ready a small sulphite mill in oper-
ation. The water power, 75,000
h.p., will be generated from Smoky
6)
Thirty students from Oxford and
Wye Agricultural College, Kent,
England, returned home on the Ca-
nadian Pacific liner Mottclare re-
cently after having assisted in the
harvesting of the Saskatchewan
crop. These young men were
brought out to the Dominion by the
Department of Colonization and Des
velopment of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, and pieced on selected
Saskatchewan farms by the We -
men's British immigration League.
The students are resuming- their
studies in England this fall.
G, Walter Booth, Prosecuting At-
torney for the State of Ohio, in an
interview in the tourist department
of the Canadian Pocific Railwaf at
Montreal recently, stated that Amer-
ican hunters were choosing Cana-
dian hunting grounds in plaee of
those in the United States practic-
ally without exception. Americans,
he said, were taking one hundred
per cent. interest in Canadian game
resorts. Mr. Booth is at present in
Canada on his anneal duek hunt
near Winnipeg, and also a big game
trip in north-western Quebec, le
PERTH COUNTY
Kenneth Wood, of Logan'suffered
p ,inful injuries vvhen the buggy, in
which he was driving, was atruck by
an automobile on the Logan Road,
not far fvoin Mitchell. The accident
occurred about fl 80 o'clock, when the
young man wits driving in to church.
The car was corning in the same dir-
ection toward IVIittshell and it is nob
known just what hammed Oat the
delver tniegalculated so badly Etis to
hit the buggy, Mr. Wood was
thrown Doe WO suffered torn Its
amente in 011A leg arid a -bad cut on
the head which took several stitches
close,
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LEADING POSITION OF
CANADA'S FISHERIES
Value of Output Has Remained
steady-Maay Kinds Aro Native
to Canadian Waters
Canada's fisheries, carried on in
the waters of two oceans, the Ab-
lantie and the Pacific, and upon a
system of great lakes and inland
waters, stand in both quanta and
value among the leading fisheries of
the world. The value of the output
in 1925 reached a total of 347,026,-
802, an increase of $8,392,507 over
1924, according to statisties compil-
ed by the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics itt co-operation with the De-
partment of Marine and Fisheries.
The importance of the industry
may be also gauged by the state-
ment that the capital invested in
equipment and establishments in
1925 was $46,411,647, an increase
of $2,554,297 ever previous year'
and that the number of employeee
engaged in the industry last year
was -73,855 of which 58,2.91 were
employed in primary operations_
The value of the fisheries in Can-
ada, by provinces, in 1925 was as
f
1925
Prince Edward Is
Province
'41,59a,119
Nova Scotia 10,213,687'
New Brunswiek 4,798,589
Quebec 9,044,919
'
3,496,412
10iiattnititrotoba
1,4(16,930
Saskatchewan 479,645
Alberta 458,504
British Columbia 22,414,518
Yukon Territory 15,370
Total $47,0-26,8.:-02
.se
The record of value of fish pro-
duction in Canada for the past five
years indicates a gradual improve-
ment since 1921, The tiguree for
tlf721five years are
i :-
$31.981,985
1:
41,800,210 912223
• 4'4565,545
1924 44,534,235
1925 47,926,802
As will be seen, athe value for
1925 was the largest recorded itt
the past five years. The principal
kinds of fish taken in that year, in
order ,of value, weeet salmon, 315,-
760,630; cod, 36,282,821; lobsters,
$3, 352,977; halibut, 34,183,391;
herring, 33,117,841; whitefish, 81,-
074,871;- and haddoek, $1,171,555.
Since the earliest days of .North
American history the coastal and
inland waters of the Dominion have
been great producers of 'WI and 'so
they still remain. It is stated by
experts that there are over 600 dif-
ferent kinds of fish native to Can-
adian waters and that few of these
are not of value as food. As yet
only about fifty species are being
utilized and only about fifteen are
in demand on the Dominion's mar-
,kets. In the deep-sea Atlantic areas
there are such staple fish as cod,.
hadock, halibut, hake, herring mack
erel, /obsters, smelt salmon, shad,
oysters and clams. The Great rakete
area, and Lake Winnipeg and other
prairie waters, produce the follow-
ing well-known vatieties, whitefish,
lake herring or lesser whitefish, lake
trout, dor6 or yellow or bine pick-
erel, black bass, sturgeon, and cat-
fish. The waters of the great plains
east of the Rocky mountains an of
the Hudson Bay area, yield lerge
whitefish, dare, jackfish, gald-eyee,
the salmon -like inconnn of the
Mackenzie Basin, Arctic h.irring, •
and grayling. Waters west of the
Rockies, the Pacific area of Britieh
Columbia, and the Yukon Territory
contain an abundance of excellent
fish such as salmon, halibut, !terrine',
pilchards, rock cod, black eod, and
many varieties of bat fieb,
Of the game fish in Canada mach
has been said. The salmon rivers
of the lower St. Lawrence and- the.
Atlantic coast from the gulf to the.
coast of the state of Maine, are
world famous. In Ontario's wittgs
speckled trout abound evervah :re
and black bass afford the higheet
class of sport. On the Pacifit (meet
there are also such famoue evert
fish as the king salmon, -sr quinnet,
the steelhea-d, redthroat and rale -
bow trout, while in the little known
waters of the north near .the Arctic
1 circle, excellent grayling of two
species abound. 'Whaling, fur -seal,
Iand hair -seal hunting, end other
mremarkable enterprise,
marine industries furnish fields for
I Canada's fisheries are independent
of drought or storm. They aro self -
seeded, self -cultivated, and self -
matured, and with proper conserva-
tion and utilization they will re-
mam a permanent source of wealth
to ths nation.
Abon t 4 o'clock, Wednesday rum
ing, fire completely destroyed the
bele esbop occupied by Memos. Dow,
and the barbel, shop of U. Oos,tello,
in the village of Dublin. A call was
sent to Mitchell Inc aid and five men
ivitb, the motor chemical truck re-
sixtobitetlimitliley made a record run,
1 e an I vadn g'lLays agiattc'vuel dy alitetattir ee
assistance, however, in preventing the
spread of the flambe to 'nearby prop-
erty.,
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