British Columbia is only nominally yours; American capital and business have got their grip firm on the very vitals of the province." "Perfectly true!"-- put in the lumberman from Vancouver--"They have three-fourths of the forests in their hands." "No matter!" said Anderson, kindling.

"There was a moment of danger--twenty years ago.

It is gone.

Canada will no more be American than she will be Catholic--with apologies to Mariette.

These Yankees come in--they turn Englishmen in six months--they celebrate Dominion Day on the first of July, and Independence Day, for old sake's sake, on the fourth; and their children will be as loyal as Toronto." "Aye, and as dull!" said Mariette fiercely.
The conversation dissolved in protesting laughter.