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145 enterprise, political or private, local or national.” For once I do not think the press has exaggerated. From early morning a festive air pervaded the city. All the streets through which...
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146 It was past this notable assembly that marched, during an hour and a half, in perfect order, the representatives of all the parishes and all the Catholic societies of the diocese,...
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147 fatherlands, symbolizing by the very difference of their language, their customs, their emblems, and their flags, the universal character of the Church whose sons they are. In order not to prolong...
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148 all those gathered to witness the laying of the corner stone of the new cathedral of St. Paul. I congratulate those who are to worship therein, and I congratulate especially you...
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149 of His Gospel would be proclaimed, and the blessings of His redemption applied to needy souls. It would also be the house of the city, of the inhabitants of St. Paul,...
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150 freedom is America's gift to religion; this freedom is America's own honor and glory. “America, in its turn needs religion; it needs good and virtuous men and women, loyal and trustworthy...
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151 The Judge recalled the modest beginnings of St. Paul, and turned to Madame Guérin, standing near him on the platform, saluting her as the widow of Vital Guérin, one of the...
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152 otherwise, which they had to overcome, and we can only trust that they are now receiving their reward for the many and noble sacrifices they made. “Better than all, I have...
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153 let us say, at least that he began by associating with the joy of this great Catholic celebration “the people of the great commonwealth of Minnesota, irrespective of conditions or church...
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154 generation are making their contribution to the progress of the time and the civilization of the period. Minnesota has just cause to be proud of her great material resources. She has...
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155 is man's recognition of his obligation to his fellow, which is essential to the welfare and permanency of free government itself. “View the subject, then, as we may, morals, ideals, sense...
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156 patriotic, in which the Church and the civic power, though separate and independent, each in its own field, had joined to render homage to the Supreme Master, to honor their great...
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157 fade before the venerable and original figure whom I am about to introduce to the reader. At Mendota survives, or rather lives, and very briskly at that, Father Joseph Goiffon, who...
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158 Father Goiffon has but one fault, but that a very serious one to travellers in search of memories. When he has been persuaded, not without some trouble, to tell his story...
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159 it lasted; I slept all the time and did not suffer, I did not know I was frozen. Once I tried to take a pencil to note the Masses I had...
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160 ‘Save something else.’ But they did not listen to me. They set me down on the sidewalk and afterwards took me to the sisters'. Eight days later, I had another hemorrhage....
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161 CHAPTER VIII WESTERN CANADA A PROPERTY OF 360,000 SQUARE MILES—WINNIPEG AND ST. BONIFACE—RELIGION IN WESTERN CANADA—GREAT DISTANCES AND GREAT DELAYS—THE ENDLESS PRAIRIE—A CITY MORE SERIOUS THAN ELEGANT: CALGARY—ADVICE TO YOUNG COLONISTS...
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162 in the fulness of youth, the Canadian West is but a great child, precocious and vigorous, whose growth stupefies statisticians every time they take its measure. It is, in very truth,...
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163 not to speak of the forests, fisheries, coal and metal mines. When this memorable act was passed, in July, 1870, Winnipeg, where I found rather more than a hundred thousand inhabitants,...
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164 would not allow me to stop anywhere but with them. They belonged to the community of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the same as those who formerly officiated at the sanctuary of...
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165 the population, as the last decennial census of 1901 places the total number of inhabitants at 5,371,375. The same census gave only 16,000 French Canadians out of 35,000 Catholics in Manitoba,...
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166 rooms which the girls had to themselves or shared with one or perhaps two others I asked her if she had no dormitories: “No,” she replied, “we must train them, young,...
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167 in 1871. Mgr. Lagevin who, in 1895 succeeded Mgr. Taché, is a very active, as well as a simple and sympathetic man. Having been unable to announce my arrival, I was...
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168 but his portrait and his story in “La Vie de Mgr. Taché,” by Don Benoit.* The historian's account differs but little from that given me by the hero himself, but it...
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169 the station a little before ten, withdrew my trunk from the baggage-room, and presented it to be checked. “We don't take baggage more than an hour before the train leaves,” they...
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170 environs of Winnipeg (I speak of environs in the American sense), a radius of several miles, the prairies, in these days of early August, is very poetic with its haymaking, and...
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171 a year, and now they are to be met with only as curiosities kept in the national parks. Not a single one shows himself on the plains to relieve the monotony...
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172 Company, has developed immense farms here which it has rendered very productive by irrigation. Near the station of Swift Current, at an altitude of two thousand feet it grazes sixteen thousand...
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173 without hesitation, and when I sought to know why, he gravely added: “Because they play base-ball better there.” I pointed out some colonist encampments, and I said to him laughingly: “That...
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174 of a hotel where I went to sleep for three or four hours in a diminutive room. The noise in the street woke me early; and had not rain drawn a...
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175 impressions of the colonists who seek and find their fortune there; or, if they would like to go still farther, beyond Slave Lake, I would suggest their following Mademoiselle de Saint-Pierre...
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176 the Canadian Pacific Railway! Yet after all, that road has not been so very long in existence. Of the 2,904 miles to be built between Montreal and Vancouver, the Government had...
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177 hindrances every one meets with there in his daily life. Admitting that many of these hindrances are but the consequence of a more complex civilization, are there not some, nevertheless, that...
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178 I do not wish to make another discovery of the Rocky Mountains. Any one going over them in detail, as one does the Alps, would no doubt find many wonders; but...
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179 connection for Seattle which must be made before reaching the Pacific, but if the train misses it (and we did miss it by five or six hours), it seems the company...
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180 that one should stop to see the finest scenery; the station is only thirty minutes walk from the Illecillewaet glacier, the largest in the world (of course) above which tower great...
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181 terrible gorges—and the Frazer, the principal river of these parts, flowing from the north, swallows the pretty little Thompson in its yellow waters. The land, thus far deserted, grows once more...
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182 was in fact, but shortly before the anti-Japanese disturbances of Vancouver, and at the moment at which the United States had decided to send the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific Ocean....
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183 different from theirs and one they are unable to assimilate.” “Why?” “I am not undertaking to justify their idea; but, as a matter of fact, they have it, and whatever the...
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184 trained here. How many have filled subordinate and disagreeable positions, not always to earn their living, but the better to learn! I know a Baron who worked on the C. P....
