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ian Newspaper'Wen and their Wives
Enjoy Trip .to Ancient City 0:
The Canadian Weekly Newspaper
Asoma iwn, wliioh .consists, of the
proprietors and editors of five hun-
dred of the weekly, papers of Cals-
ada and Newfoundland; held its an-
nual contention in the city of Que-
bec in the month of .Tune, and the
sessions were not only well"attended;
but most interesting. , Members' from
every province in Canada and from:
the Island of -"Newfoundland freely
discussed their-problorns and listened
to several helpful and interesting
addresses'' by 'public: men,
The gathering was held in the
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magnrficen-t hotel, the Chateau Frun=»
tenac, which is one of the ;finest of"
the Canadian Pacific Hotels. The
building is of magnificent propos
tions and is on the most' prominent
spot on the cliff' .which rises -up so
. ai aptly' from the 'rivet. Both the
Canadian Pacific 'find' the
Canadian,
.:.National. Railways had •made every'
effort,to make the gathering plea-
sant, and on then' way to the ancient
capital many courtesies were extend-
-ed to the members. A good many,
of the Ontario 'members left Toronto
quiet and dress very quietly. The
extremes of fashion are,; absent. Even
on the board walk on the Dufferin
Terrace in front of ' the Chateau,
where hundreds of people gather . to
walk upandclown, there is an 'ab-
sence of extremes in Clothes. One
reason maybe that the dignataries
of the Roman Catholic' Church have
:frowned at -conte of the edicts of
fashion .in women's apparel, and con
spicuie notices will be Lound in
some' of the "churches that women
who enter are requested to dress
"decently," and that anyone with
transparent clothes, with low necks
or' short sleeves : will not be given,
Communion, by order of the Arch-
bishop. One thing that struck the
editors was that at the end .of the
band concert on the board walk,
when the band first played 0 Can-
ada and then :Crod 'Save the,Iiing
every hat came off and all stood. at
attention right throhgh till the end,
.An,:9ntai•io scan remazlted that few
English speaking crowd's would -do
that on an ordinary every night band
concert. The people of Quebec are
uebec
toric sites looked after by aDom
inion' Connnission and are -well, rept.
Through the kindness of the Quebec
Power Co. a trip was made to Ste.
Anne de Beaupre. Here one of the
Brothers--' showed the party 'around.
The; new church being'erected,'replac-
ing the burned one, iswell under way,
but will not be finished for about two
years. The brothers Sire doing most
of the work themselves. It is of
stone, with a steel frame and will cost
about a million dollar's.' The cycler
-
mile is well worth" . seeing', and is a
marvellous painting. 'It to form or
six artists four o{ five years. to .eom-
plete t e canvass which is in one
piece and reaches .completely round
the inside of the building. 'The `bro-
ther who showed ,the party' round had
been 13 years, conducting parties of
visiting Protestants round the ,Shrine,
and he. spoke English quite 'fluently.
On the -return •journey ;the party
stopped at ICent house at,Montinor-
envy Falls, where they were enteie
tained at tea -and at .a dance. The
visit was enjoyed as the evening was
one of the most pleasant of the week.
The 'Famous St. Louis Gate—Tourists are are always
i 1.1.1 t' '} t 4:i .liit�t'.t. `.LM_ ...
on' Tuesday tnorhingr; on. the National '
dor Montreal, and on arrival at seven
o'clock .found that two special chair
ears had been "attached to the train
for Quebec, where they arrived' at
9,45. The journey down was plea-
sant and several, of the officials of
the raihvay accompanied them on the
journey. During the Convention both-
the
oththe C.P.R. and C.N.R. had three or
four of their heads of departments
at Quebee to'see.,that everything that
was possible was done • to make the
days in the historic city pleasant.
Plenty of, trine was given between
sessions- to see the city which is so
historic. In' the older portion, both
in the upper and lower towns, nearly
-every building and foot of land has
a history dating- back for „several
hundreds of years, and they -els every
opportunity to visit the many places'
of interest, as the bus lines, trolley
lines, cabbies and jitneys ply a thriv-
ing trade showing tourists round.,.In
front of the Chateau ;conveyances of
.all kinds are at one's disposal. The
'city is halting every effgrt to en-'
eourago tourists' and during tho
spring and summer months it is a
much revenue. Many
of
houses areopened to accommodate
n .r regular boarding
visitors and. eg
' places turn' to the totntist business,
For those 'Who have have never visited.
the city it: might,be said that Quebec
is a quiet city and has-ehanged less
than some other Canadian towns.
'The •people on the streets do not'6•ive
oiia the impression that business is
'pressing. :One does not see the
streams of business men and women
in the morning making their 'way to
'offices. Unlike Montreal and Torn-.
to the business girl is not much in
evidence. The people of the city -are
taken 'to see this ancient gateway,
Canadian National Railways Photograph
fond of singing and whenever they
gather together they sing their songs
sante of them, the old French folks
eongs, which an effort is being -made
to revive. One hears 0 Canada quite
frequently and God ,Save the King
is often heard, sung ,quite nattily.
Ninety out of every hundred pee.
Me of the city are French, and ninety-
five out of every hundred are Roman
Catholic. Most of the five per cent.
of English Roman Catholics are
Irish, The Jews in the city are few
and far between, and the Chinaman
with his restuarant and laundry are
not prominent: The restuarants of
the city do not impress ane, and are
not 'what one alight expect in a city
the size of Quebec.
In theolder sections, of the city
the streets are not wide and in some
of the streets especialIy in lower
town, which is on the level of the
ziver and can be 'looked down upon
from the heights above, one way
traffic is only possible. In the nar-
rowest street in the city an Automo-
bile can get through, but pedestrians
have to stand on the doorstep to let
one by.
A visit to the fort end the Plains
to
RfAbraham is always of interest.
test
.
Thepress party eas shownthrob h
the fortifications and was allowed to
Have a ;glimpse of a portion of the
quarters occupied by the Governor.-
General when in residence at: Que-
bec. The last time the pressmen met
in Quebec the Marquis ail Lorne
then Governor-General, and his wife,
the Princess Louise entertained them
at the fort, On the -plains the monu-
ment to Wolfe, Which- has been re-
built several tidies, is •conspicuous on
the spot where he Yell. The plains
are nor/ part of the _-Dominion his -
Kent was once the home of the Duke
of Kent The house is on a high cliff
with about 150 or 176 steps up from
the river level. • An elevator :takes
one up in aminute or so,
In passing, through the Province
the visitor is struck by the difference
in the' shape of the farms from other
Provinces. Farms are long and nar-
row and the houses are'ellose together
Along one road as on a street. There
are what Ontario` people woeild call
concession lines, but hardly any side
lines and the houses are all along the
concession Iines on both sides, the
farm running hack half' a mile or so,
often only one field wide. ' The houses
are, all frame, are painted white or
'whitewashed, and the stnaIl barn is
finished in a similar way. As a rule
the doors 'both of house and barn are
painted rehod.
Today some cases one man may
own two or more long farms, but an
Association which is trying to keep
the old customs in -ogee, encourages
the farmers to keep up their line
fences,: It is found that the quaint-
ness of the old, systems and .methods
is an attraction .to the tourists,' es-
Feoiallofrom the States.
i
. In travelling through the Province
ce
•one is strde k with
c w t the absence se ace of
sheep, silos, hank . barn, gardens
round the honle,'ancl the sameness of
the farms. There isa lack of indi-
viduality which makes the bandescape
ranter monotonous after a time: In
some sections the old outside ovens
are 'still in use, and the good house-
wives with the party were anxi¢us
to know how bread could be baked
outside. without giving .it a chill be-
fore,it reached the oven.
After the sessions a trip was made
dorvis the St. Lawrence and up the
ENGINEERING WONDER OF CANADA -
The Quebec Bridge,'over• whichCanadian National trains bore many of the C.W.N.A. delegates, is one of
the engineering marvels of this continent. It spans the St. Lawrence just above Quebec and beneath it pass ocean
liners bound .for Montreal. Canadian National RaiIs'ays Photograph
The residents of the Province stick to the usages of their fathers
much mere than we do in Ontario.. This is an old-fashioned bake
oven stillused in many rural eections.of the Province,
Canadian National Railways Photograph
Saguenay. This tet a famous and
popular trip, but the weather was
rather cool. It is seldom hot. on the
trip, but this year the . season was
...backward as in other 'provinces
There is very little settlement along
the banks of the Saguenay, the banks.
are high, 'almost - small'" mountains;
and well wooded with small timber,
possibly suited for pulp wood, The
local ran as far as Chicoutimi where
automobiles conveyed everyone to a
large pulp .mill ':back from the river.
There immense water power : was
available and hundreds of mea were
employed night and slay, It had been
Rdwa3rd and Samuel Blake's families'
had summer. places across the river,
and now many prominent men' from
both sides of the border summer in
the neighborhood, amongst them Mr.
Taft. -
Many of the party spent a day 6r
sn in Montreal This is a different
city altogether. It is not so "decided -
1y French. One hears English on the
streets and in places ofbusiness,most
;of the time. There is a stir such as
one expects .it a commercial centre.
In the 'morning the business people
step along eagerly to their work,
Montreal is growing - rapidly' and
Montmorency Falls, a very picturesque spot neap. Quebec City.
It is seen emoute to St. Anne de Beaupre. The press patty spent an
evening here, having dinner at the hotel above the falls.
Canadian National Railways Photograph
planned. to go a few utilesfarther
in to the immense aluminum 'plant
under construction, but the boat was
late and time would not permit:
Dinner was served to everyone in
a construction eaniF g dinin room.
Tire tables at a
ab s nd seats were made of
plank, and the meal was served in
shanty "fashion. It was enjoyed,
however, .by.the party, and speeches:
in :both French and English, and
community singing brought a ;plea-
sant hour to a close.
On the way up"the river to Chi-
coutimi an evening was spent 'at the
Richelieu hotel, a splendid summer
hotel, at Murray Bay 'rears ago
life is changing. The wealthy men,
who had large roomy homes, are now
living in "large numbers in, apart-
ments and immense' fine -apartments
have been erected, And are now under
con tz tc ion a11 over the city.
These
homes e
o t are convenient, compact, well
heated and have every cenveMence.
They also do away largely -with the
problems of domestic help.
It was a most interesting trip and
one which should add greatly to the
general knowledge of Canada of the
men and women who enjoyed it.
We are endebted to the 'Canadian
National Railway for the -use of the
photographs on this page,.'
Legislative. Buildings, Quebec City •-
Canadian National Railwa;
Photograph
There's; nothing to beat some 'of t
those rural telephone linese for ser-
vice, Just give one ring and you net
every person in the township.—Pet-
retie Advertiser -Topic..
A pessimist is a man who,: has lost
heart and has no great shakes of a
liver. --Montreal 'Star.
C. N. 15. EARNINGS
The gross earning's of the Canadian
National Trailways for the'period end-
ed August 31; 1926, were. $7,260,592,
as compared with ;$6,759,722 for the
same period of 1925, -an increase of
$500,870 or seven per cent,
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A Column Prepared' Especially torr Worsen—
But Not Forbidden to Men
To be polite is to do and 44y
The kindest things in the lcinilest'
There is nothing much pleasanter
than to.meet a person 'who is habit-
ually polite, .one who says the right
thing at the right time and who does-
n't ruffle you up and make you feel
uncomfortable. And, after all,the
polite person is just the kind,'thought-
ful person; the man or woman who
considers others, rather 'than them-
selves. I1 one is always kind, always
mope thoughtful to make,others com-
fortable than to gain something' for
oneself, one has gone for on the road
to gentle breeding
We may not all :be descended from
a line of gently -bred people. We may
come of common stock, the people
who settled in the wilderness, and al-
though in many' cases our forebears
may: have been more or less "well
brought up," their children were de-
_priYed of,the .advantage of, gaily ed-
ucation and may in turn ]eve married
into families where training in. the
gentle art of living smoothly with
their neighbors was not .considered
essential. But it is tithe Canadian's as
a whole began 'to cultivate the.graea
of good•manners. '
1Sonte people affect to he,
lievel that it doesn't itntatter, so long
as a man is honest, how boorish leis.
manners are.. But it' matters a lot.
Theyoung man who pays no attention
to his manners never gets very far
PROVINCES ATTAIN THEIR.
MAJORITY
The_ two Canadian provinces of Al-
berta and Saskatchewan attained
their majority ]n regard to age on
September ist. They are now twenty-
one years old as provinces of the
Dominion, Priv- to that (late the
aroa they now -embrace had the status
of territories administered largely by
the Canadian Federal Government,
The occasion of the two provinces
reaching their majority provide .an in-
teresting retrospect. In 1905 the coin-'
bind population of Aliberta and Sas-
katchewan was 400,000 in round fig-
ures. It is now 1,500,000.- The value
of the annual agriculture production
has increased in- 21 years from 'about
$40,000,000 to.$785,000,000. Alberta's
wheat area is now nearly thirty times
that of 21 years. ago. • The produc-
tion of grains ie nearly fifty times as
great as in •1906. The average yield
of wheat in 21 years has been over 18
'bushels to the acre: Less than 11,000
of the 60,000,000 `acres' suitable for
farthing Atte sown to field crops. .In
this period Alberta has developed a
dairy industry with products totalling
in value more than $20,000,000 an-
nually. 21 years ago Saskatchewan
produced 28,000,000 .bushels of wheat.
Last year the yield 'was over 240,000,-
000 bushels, more than half of the
total wheat production of the Doulin-
ion. It is now the principal wheat
growing area in North Ante -idea, if not
in the iverld, While wheat is still the
main erop, mixed fanning has made
rapid progress in all parts of .Saskat-
chewan. Last year the creamery but-
ter productionamounted to 15,850,000
pounds. There still remains 58,000,•
000 acres in Saskatchewan suitable
for profitable farming. These two
youngest of the nine sisters that form
the Federal Union of the Dominion of
Canada have reason to be proud of the
robust state of their ,progress in 21
years. 'W.etas'kewatt (Alta.) Tiales,
'f+i" IIVGRAId: IbIrs, •Joseph ..11eGee,
formerly of Morris, who for 12 years
haslived,in Wingham, and is now 86
years old, inet with .a bad accident,
her i• girl; . Hillyard and little I
Mts1 t who
y dg
r e i' i lv z'Sandusky; Ohio, came to visitit
her -mother and: the next morning left
the grandmother alone while trey
Went to Mrs. .Elliott's home. The
kind hearted old lady iwent to pur-
chase a doll. for her •little•gsnndel ild
and on leaving the store slipped and
fell breaking her leg. She is- now in
1Vingham Hospital, The many
friends of les.. McGce in .•Morrie
township and in Winghani sympathize
with herein her nnisfontune.
land the young woman who is -ill -mangy.
erred fares even worse, They are not
received in the circles whero''ttiey
would naturally move were they fitted
for such circles and have fewer oppor-
'tuniti-es of advancement on that' -tic
count.
It may be argued that this is un-
fair, But itis not. The laws of good,
manners were laid down for the ,ben
(tit of society. You break those laws
at your own 'peril. I1 you insist upon
;pleasing yourself, instead of consider-
ing the feelings of others,you cannot
complain if 'you are shut out of cir-
cles where such laws are observed, or
that people withdraw themselves from
association with you.
Kindness, thoughtfulness for others
is the truest politeness. After all,
good manners ate the outward sign
that the human animal is superior to
all others.
Parents of children who neglect to,'.
teach them good `manners, ,onsidera-
tion for others, the art of getting e-
king smoothly with their fellows, are
sending them :out into the world badly
equipped ;to meet,the trials of. life. A:
happy,-dispd1,itioned;.Child, who has
been taught'to give'and take, to ph -
serve
-serve the rules of fair play, in work
and sport, to take -a beating as well
as'.g,win with good grace, isbesteq-
nipped -for life's vissicitudes. If pas-
ents hada better' 'realization of this
they would 'be more -,insistentuli'on
courtesy and good manners in the
home, during play hours and at all
times. ..
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