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Show QUEBEC A CITY OF THE PAST' I ' I Development of Canadian Dominion Goes Forward, but 8ho Hat '" Little Part In It. l Quobec herself rathor enduroB being ! quaint than enjoys It. for In this day of Canadian development she has fl dreamed of tho futuro aftor the fash- i Ion of those insistent townB further j to the west "It has not been picas I ant for her," says Edward Hunger- ford n Harper's Weekly, "to drop 1 1 from second place in Canadian com- B morclal lmportanco to fourth or fifth i Sho hna had to sit baok and see luoh g citieB as Winnipeg, for Instance, In- I crease from an Indian trading-place 1 to a metropolitan center two or three If times her slzo, whllo her own wharves v rot. It Is a matter of keen humllia S tlon to the town every time a big ocean liner goes sailing up the river to Montreal hor river, if you aro to glvo ear to tho protests of her citizens citi-zens whom you meet along the Tor-race Tor-race of a lato afternoon without halting halt-ing at her wharveB, perhaps without even a respectful Baluto to the town, which has been known those many years as tho Gibraltar of North America." Amer-ica." nn |