The Canadians in the Klondyke are the first to say the tax is nothing short of highway robbery.

On Easter Monday, April 9th, the Battle of Arras began, with the brilliant capture by the Canadians of that

Carleton pointed out that a hundred men of the Canadian seigneurial families were being kept on full pay in France, ready to return and raise the Canadians at the first opportunity.

I need say no more than this to convince your Lordship, that while this state of things subsists (and I much fear that no measure but the establishment of reciprocal trade between Canada and the States, or the imposition of a duty on the produce of the States when imported into England, will remove it), arguments will not be wanting to those who seek to seduce Canadians from their allegiance.

Pierre La Marche was a Franco-Canadian of the spread-eagle kind referred to.

They cursed the king, the pope, and the French Canadians with as much violence as any temporal or spiritual rulers had ever cursed heretics and rebels.

On August 16 the enemy came on ten separate times, but they seldom got close enough to the Canadians for fighting with bayonet or bomb.

[Illustration: German prisoners captured by Canadians during a French raid, with one of their captors.

He had arrived a short time before us, with four Indians and one Canadian in a canoe, on his way to St. Peter's.

"Him mebbe fine gentleman," muttered the Canadian to the Major; "but if so he make a disguise of it.

The guard there consisted of fifty menJohn Coffin, who was a merchant of Quebec, Sergeant Hugh McQuarters of the Royal Artillery, Captain Barnsfair, a merchant skipper, with fifteen mates and skippers like himself, and thirty French Canadians under Captain Chabot and Lieutenant Picard.

The Chouteaus are of that stock; and of that stock came the late Major Aubry, renowned among the guides and trappers of the southwestern wilderness; and if J.C. Fremont is not a French Canadian by birth, the strong efforts made about the time of the last Presidential election to establish him as one had at least the effect of determining his Canadian descent.

MORE CANADIANS FOR THE FRONT It was announced in Ottawa, Canada, on October 19 that the Dominion Government had decided to put 30,000 more men in training in Canada, to be despatched to England when ready.

The continuation of the British offensive northeast of Arras, following the bloody battle of Vimy Ridge, which was firmly held by the Canadians against desperate counter-attacks, placed the British astride the Hindenburg line, and the Germans retired to positions a mile or two west of the Drocourt-Queant line.

Totals 134,026 5,005 CANADIANS AT THE FRONT Late in December the first of the Canadian troops to leave their English training camp on Salisbury Plain were sent to the front in Northern France.

If there are some people in the United States busy with their own affairs who look on the Canadians as living up north somewhere toward the Arctic Circle and not very numerous, that old criterion of worth which discovers in the glare of battle's publicity merit which already existed has given to the name Canadian a glory which can be appreciated only with the perspective of time.

The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse,emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind.

For he was not a French Canadian from the backwoods, or an Alpine chasseur from lonely mountains, but a well-known lawyer from a French provincial town, with the blood and education of a gentleman.

Under the guise of apparent indifference his mind kept the Canadian under constant observation.

Physical size and grand proportions are looked upon by the French-Canadian with great respect.

I spoke to a Canadian about her.

Morgan was an indefatigable and clear-sighted man who deserves to be gratefully remembered by both races; for he was a good friend both to the French Canadians before the Quebec Act and to the United Empire Loyalists just before their great migration, when he was Carleton's secretary at New York.

As a rule they acquiesced, with a more or less bad grace, in the necessity of admitting French Canadians on the same terms as themselves.

The Princess Patricia regiment had the military honor of leading the Canadians to the firing line.