Show THE FRENCH IN C CANADA NADA A Dr Adrin AdHn Loir came over from Prance France t to Canada Can Can- a ada la in 1906 ns as a delegate to the medical congress held at Three Rivers He lic spent his leisure in vIsiting visiting vis vIs- different of the dominion and he has recorded l his is impressions in n a a book lIe He c Confesses that when hen he landed at l Montreal he ho had little or tt orno r no knowledge of the country h he ho was under th the impression s i n that the handful of F Fren French ench h left in Canada after the conquest of 1759 had long since been thoroughly assimilated by the English It Tt was ng of or a surprise to him to find that there were today of descendants of or the i Canadians S who stood StOOl about I in 1759 a and 1 that they had not only not been assimilated by their English speaking fellow countrymen but that they clu clung tenaciously to tl thi ir language their religion and their ideals that they were indeed a nation within a nation That is all true we s1 suspect but th t shows the difference between Our Lady of the Snows and the United States If when the revolutionary war wrest wrested the thc th thirteen colonies from Great t Britain Brita a Canada Canada had a also o been e n included th there thre re haye hr been nb especial French society p about Quebec Pl Tl The e French wo would lil hl have been there thc they would have had their own churches hc's but every one toda today would have been an American in the full sense of the the word as much so as they are in New Orleans Orlean or in St. St Louis ouis' ouis Both of those were French citi js citi-js at first but their heil descendants s. s are aie l e. e not no dreaming ap about ut beautiful France France Francc they are st standing up p a and tl declaring that tHere is no country on earth carth like the thc United States no p ople like the tho Americans The English in Canada were verc originally an exclusive CX- CX clus e set which was all nIl the more intensified d after the revolutionary war rh They swore by King G George f and th they y l looked on the colonies south sout l land and on the French among them as half enemies And then hen later came come on two or 01 or three Fenian l' l raids ids which made them all ll th the more bitter and which the thc French all more o or oi less sympathized with It II is is' only in the tho last lIas twenty five c years cars Canadians Canadians' have Haye grown cor cordial t toward nvard the United States tates This This' is s due to t the 1 fact that so many Canadians Cana Cana- q u h have hc c come over o h here r and fortunes nes and anti antigone gone back and married f the the lie girls girls' of their own country country coun coun- try hr brought them here and when enough American Ameri Amen can child children e l began to pull pul at the heart strings o otheir ot of J their Canadian grandmothers then the thc therace race began to soften soften down I j and nd now th the thc ordinary Canadian looks upon th the or ordinary linary American as almost his equal Many Can Canadian cn n French have con come com to the United States mid and they ire are better Uni United States citizens than th they J e ever er r were we Canadian cJ citizens en r We Ye do 10 n. n not nt t mean nican in the sense that the they w were re ever lawbreakers in Cana Canada a but th that t there is m more cordiality in the theUn Un United cd States toward all the pe people around them than there ever cyer was in Canada They rhey never will willbe b be Englishmen But ns are going to change so it will he be hard to to di distinguish inglish Am Americans ri ans from Canadians ans and when that is done the French Frenchmen en h- h men l over there will be en cn rapport with them |