Its people have seen pain, strife and defeat, they have gone through excitement and anxiety and patient waiting, and at times have almost given up the strife.

But the province and its great city, Winnipeg, are the meeting place of the East and West, the pivotal point of the Dominion.

The national life of Canada throbs here with a steadier beat and a more normal pulse than it does in any other part of Canada, its dominating Canadian spirit is so hearty and so sprightly, that, it is taking possession of the scores of different nations coming to us and they feel that we are their friends and brothers.

This, while it may not be the noisy and blatant type of loyalty is a practical patriotism which is making a united, sane and abiding type of national character.
Again we answer: Three years from now will be the hundredth year since the landing on the banks of Red River of the first band of Selkirk Colonists.

It was as we have seen a struggle of an extraordinarily bitter type.