It is frequently ignored that the mother country paid most of Canada's bills till long after the War of 1812, that she paid nearly all the naval and military accounts for longer still, and that she has borne far more than her own share of the common defence down to the present day.

[Illustration: Canada's Premier on a visit to the Western front in Europe, with a notable group of Canadian officers.

On July 8, in the gardens of Kensington Palace, London, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, presented to General Steele, for the Canadian forces, a silken Union Jack and a silver shield, given by the women and children of the British Isles in acknowledgment of Canada's good will and valuable co-operation.

CANADA'S CASUALTIES Canada's casualty list up to November 1, 1918 (eleven days before the armistice), totaled 211,358, classified as follows: Killed in action, 34,877; died of wounds or disease, 15,457; wounded, 152,779; presumed dead, missing in action and known prisoners of war, 8,245.

CANADA'S CASUALTIES Canada's casualty list up to November 1, 1918 (eleven days before the armistice), totaled 211,358, classified as follows: Killed in action, 34,877; died of wounds or disease, 15,457; wounded, 152,779; presumed dead, missing in action and known prisoners of war, 8,245.

Canada's total land forces numbered nearly a half million men; that is, over eighty per cent of the men of the Dominion of military age, who were physically fit.

Canada's efforts and sacrifices in the war have not been fully understood.

"Canada's annual balance of trade is probably about £60,000,000 against her: £30,000,000 being the excess of her trade imports over her trade exports and the remaining £30,000,000 representing her annual payment on money borrowed.

Have they kept Canada's men, and America's, from reaching France?

(In Maclean's, Canada's national magazine, Jan. 1, 1950)

(In Maclean's, Canada's national magazine, Jan. 1, 1950)

It was the moment of Canada's last efforts, and the echo of that glorious death-rattle reached even to Versailles.

Canada's weakness is lack of men.

They were allotted farm lands and added much to Canada's prosperity.

Probably the most popular and influential of Canada's governors-general was Lord Dufferin, another Irishman.

Nationalist liberation movements were active in settled communities such as Ireland and Canada's Province of Quebec.

Of every land, they too, but one land claim The land that gives them place and hope and name Canadians, they, and proud and glad to be A part of Canada's sure destiny!