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There was apparently some little
• touch of an old-fashioned riled -up
.First of July among .Canadians
this year, judging from some of
the letters I have received from
,people who want me to mediate in
..their arguments about Confedera-
tion. But many brave constitu-
-tional pundits have applied them-
.selves to such questions with an-
:savers Still wanting, It is a rather
;good thing, I think, that there are
still issues for Canadians to take
up on Confederation Day. With -
'out them it would seem that the
nation were taking its birthday
,too much for granted.
A reader in the West has asked;
4 'Who were the Fathers of Con-
deration?" Since the western
provinces joined the union later
than the original members it plays
a subordinate part in their local
history, but in any case it is a fair
question simply because historifins
have never agreed on just who the
.real "fathers" of Confederation
were.
, It is not known where the idea
•Ior federation came from in the
first place. It was certainly sug-
gested by Lord Durham in his
famous repdrt of 1938-39, and at
least entered the mind of Lord
Elgin during the stormy last days
of his office as governor-general.
Sir John A. Macdonald, who took
such' a vital part in framing the
constitution, had thought a great
deal about it long before 1867. It
may have been in the mind of
Queen Victoria herself who was
growing a bit restless over the
eentinual unrest in the growing
'colony.
But the school history books ad-
vance the popular opinion that the
men who attended that conference
in Quebec in October, 1864. were
the Fathers of Confederation. It
is the group that Robert Harris
immortalized in his painting and
includes 33 legislative pioneers:
(Sir) Frederic Carter and Sir John
Shea from Newfoundland; (Sir)
Charles Tupper, Robert Dickey,
(Sir) A. G. Archibald, William
Henry and Jonathan McCully
from Nova Scotia; Co],. John Gray,
George Coles, Thomas Haviland,
A. A. Macdonald, Edward Palmer,
William Pope and Edward Whelan
from Prince Edward Island; (Sir)
Samuel Leonard Tilley, E. 13.
Chandler, Charles Fisher, John H.
Gray, John M, Johnson, Peter
Mitchell and William H. Steeves
from New Brunswick, and Sir
Etienne Tache, (Sir) Georges Car-
tier, Jean Chapais, (Sir) Hector
Langevin, Thomas D'Arcy McGee,
(Sir) John A, Macdonald, George
Brown, (Sir) Alexander Campbell,
James Cockburn, (S*) A. T. Galt,
William McDougall, and (Sir)
Oliver Mowat from the territory
then known as Canada. A num-
ber of them were subsequently
knighted.
Those are the "Fathers of Con-
federation", the founders of Can-
ada. But I should be inclined to
keep the reference in quotation
marks. , Included in this group
were all the delegates to the
Charlottetown Conference earlier
in the year, and it may be that
this smaller group were the real
"fathers,"
Prof. A. M. Lower says in "Col-
ony to Nation" that Charles Tup-
per of Nova Scotia was the only
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M.al;itirei' really to rank with the
men of the province of Canada
who actually designed the new
federation. He is certain that..
Leonard Tilley does not, Sir
Leonards part, in fact, did consist
of little more than to suggest the
Biblical term "dominion" as a
name for the new confederation, It.
may be that politics of the interior
were too stormy for calm Mari-
time tastes.
Carl Wittke, on the other hand,
avers in his "A History of Can-
ada" that Tilley should be includ-
ed, among the seven giants of Brit-
ish North America politics whose
leadership made confederation pos-
sible, The others were (Macdon-
ald (of course), Galt, Brown, Car-
tier, McGee and Tupper.
Conspicuously absent from this
famous company was Sir Joseph
Howe, whose Nova Scotian gov-
ernment fathered responsible gov-
ernment in North America, Howe
was against theunion.
The •Charlottetown Conference
had been called specifically to dis-
cuss a union of the Maritime Pro-
vinces, but Upper Canadian lead-
ers who had asked permission to
sit in on the talks suggested a
wider union. From then on the
initiative was taken by John A,
This was in the capital of the
province which was first to with-
draw. (PEI did not enter the un-
ion until 1873.) Only in New
Brunswick, however, was the issue
of confederation taken to the polls,
and there it was defeated, al-
though Tilley managed to sway
his province by ratification time
in 1867.
CLII i1T NEWS -RECORD
Ui... Juiors Visit
nt of Huron
After a week of first-hand study
of farming methods in -Iuron
County, two British young people
visited in Clinton last Thursday at
the office of the agricultural rep-
resentative, and were taken to
Chatham for a period on Kent
County farms.
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D'Arcy McGee, the great Can-
adian patriot who was assassinat-
ed by• the Fenians, was the phi1-
osopher of Confederation while
Macdonald was the strategist. He
said at the time that there was
nothing more to be dreaded in the
country than feuds arising from
exaggerated feelings of religion
and nationality, "We Irishmen,"
he said in Quebec, "both Protest-
ant and Catholic, born and bred in
a land of religious controversy,
should never forget that we now
live and act in a land ,of the ful-
lest religious and civil liberty."
Georges Cartier, who had once
borne arms against the Canadians,
saw that Canada must either have
a confederation or be absorbed by
the American continent. In Que-
bec everyone but Cartier—and the,
Catholic Church --- opposed Con-
federation. The French Canadians
had rejected an invitation from
Washington in 1775 because they
thought they could better keep
their own institutions intact by
adhering to the British Crown,
Cartier thought the union of the
provinces was necessary to in-
crease the country's power and to
maintain its ties with the Mother
Country. He later said: "If Can-
ada is still a portion of the British
Empire it is due to the conserv-
ative policy of the French Canad-
ian clergy." And who is to say--
as ironical as it may seem—that
the union of the provinces was not
inspired by the church?
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It is good that Prof. Lower pays
such high. tribute to Georges Car-
tier as the only real French Can-
adian "father" at this late date,
because, even after 35 years in
Canadian politics Cartier had
earned so .little from his devotion
in a monetary sense that when he
was made a baronet he had to
borrow the money, to pay the fees
in connection with the award.
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Weed of Week
BLADDER CAMPION
Whether you can it Bladder
Campion, Bladder weed or Cow
Bell, it still remains one of On-
tario's Worst weeds according to
the Crops, Seeds and Weeds
Branch of the Ontario Department
of Agriculture. It can be identi-
fied among the cockles by its
smooth leaves and stem, white
flowers and inflated seed pod top-
ped by three or six curved teeth.
It spreads by seed or by pieces of
the crown. Cutting before mid-
June and careful cultivation are
necessary for its control,
When only email patches are
present, applications of sodium
chlorate, ammate or heavy and re-
peated applications of Brushkill
will eradicate it before it gets a
chance to spread. Brushkill is a
fifty-fifty mixture of 2, 4-D and
2, 4, 5-T and should be applied at
the rate of two or three ounces of
acid per gallon of water.
Bladder Campion is usually in-
troduced as an impurity in Red
Clover seed and is scattered
throughout the field. Chemical
control is not practical under these
conditions. The hay should be cut
early in June and the field plowed.
Frequent cultivation from plowing
till fall with a broad tooth cultiv-
ator will go a long way to clean-
ing up the field. Early spring
cultivation followed by a row crop
will take care of most of the
survivors.'
Don't buy clover seed unless
you know it is free of Bladder
Campion, and if you do find it on
your farm spray it or cut it be-
fore it goes to seed.
John Pickthall, 23, from West-
morland in the north of England,
and Gladys Prichard from Caer-
phi11Y, in South Wales, are two
British junior farmers selected for
exchange visita to Ontario farms
this summer. Their week in Huron
followed visits to farms in the
Ottawa Valley, and in Eastern On-
tario, and a three-day stay at the
Ontario Agricultural College,
Guelph, After their tour of On-
tario, under arrangements .by the
Ontario Junior Farmer organiza-
tion, they are to visit farms in the
United States, as guests of the
Future Farmers of America,
Gladys Prichard, who was the
Vest in Huron of Mr.nd Mrs,
Murray Edgar, near Corrie in
Flowick Tow. ship, was able to add
a decorative note to the Howick
landscape, as well as making ]her-
self useful on the Edgar farm. At
her home in Wales, she is an ac-
tive worker on her father's farm
----but she is also the winner of a
South Wales beauty contest. She
is also active in the British or-
ganization that corresponds to our
Junior _ Farmers, as secretary of
the Llysfaen daub, of the National
Federation. of Young Farmers.
Clubs,
Many Similarities
Miss Prichard reported being
surprised more at the similarities
between farming at home in Wal-
es, and farming in Huron' County,
than at the differences she has
noticed, On her father's 100 -acre
farm in the Cardiff area; she helps
look after a herd of Friesian cat-
tle, a herd of about 40 pigs, 150
chickens, and .a flock of sheep. The
making of grass silage, wnich is
one of the new developments in
Ontario agriculture, was first tried
on the Prichard farm six years
ago, and has been done each year
since. At home, she explained, they
ensile uncut grass in a pit silo; the'
grass is forked in, and tramped by
a pony. When the silage is to be
fed out, it is cut with a hay knife,
and handled in blocks.
The only real difference between
Welsh and Ontario farms that has
been noticeably to her, Miss Prich-
ard said, is in the style of the
buildings. In Wales, she said, dairy
farmers are not allowed to have
anything over the stables: hay and
straw has to be kept in a separate
building, instead of being Rept in
mows over the 'stables, as it is
done in Ontario.
Lives Near Scottish Border
John Pickthall spent his time in
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Huron as the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. George Underwood, i..R.,
Wingharn. Ur, Underwood is e
past president of North Nuron
Junior Farmers,' and is club leader
for the Turnberry d -H Calf Club,
Mr. Pickthall had previously
seen the exchange systern frons the
other side; last year, at his home
farm in England, :he had its guests
two junior farmers from the Unit-
ed States on exchange visits to
Britain, When he goes to the
United States this summer, he is
to visit sorne of the United States
farmers he met in England a year
ago.
John Pickthall is a partner with
his father on a 206 -acre mixed
farm 60 miles south of the Scot-
tish border. They keep a herd of
registered milking Shorthorns, and
Sell whole milk at retail, making
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their own deliveries direct to col
Burners in the nearby tem).
Milnthorpe.
On his home farm, silo-filli
had been completed just before
left, June 10, for his summer
North America, The Pickthalis fs
the past four years have be.
making grass silage in a pit sit
In their North of England climat
their milking herd rs stabled u;
u4lly from November until A.prj
so that their stable -feeding seas
approaches in length what is cus
otnary fn Southern Ontario..
Mr. Pickthall and Miss Prichai
were taken by automobile Thur
day, by .G,. W, Montgomery, 1
Chatham, where Iden Lantz, agr
cultural representative for Ken
is to look after the next phase •
their tour,
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