six hundred and eight millions. For one dollar's worth she buys in
England, she buys four dollars' worth in the United States. Here trade
is not following the flag, and the flag is not following trade. Trade
is following its own channels independent of the flag.

V

What is the future portent of the great migration of Englishmen of the
best blood and traditions to Canada? There can be only one portent--a
Greater Britain Overseas, and Canada herself has not in the slightest
degree wakened to what this implies. She knows that her railroads are
a safe and shorter path to the Orient than by Suez; and in a cursory
way she may also know that the nations of the world are maneuvering for
place and power on the Pacific; but that she may be drawn into the
contest and have to fight for her life in it--she hardly grasps. If
you told Canada that within the life of men and women now living her
Pacific Coast may bristle with as many forts and ports as the North
Sea--you would be greeted with an amused smile. Yet all this may be
part of the destiny of a Greater Britain Overseas.

With men such as Sir John Macdonald and Laurier and Borden on the
roster roll of Canada's great, one dislikes to charge that Canadian
statesmen have not grown big enough for their job. The Aztec Indians
used to cement their tribal houses with human blood. Canada's part in
the Great War may be the blood-sign above the lintel of her new
nationality.

[1] I have variously referred to Canada's population as five million,
seven million, and over seven million. Five million was Canada's
population before the great influx of colonists began. The census
figures of 1911 give Canada's population as 7,204,838. Add to this the
immigration for 1912, and you get the Department of Labor
figures--7,758,000. If you add the immigration for 1913 the total must
be close on 8,000,000.

[2] The figures are from the official _Trade and Commerce Report_, Part
I, 1914: They tabulate the trade of 1913 thus: Imports from United
Kingdom, $138,741,736; imports from United States, $435,770,081.
Average duty imports United Kingdom, 25.1. Average duty imports United
States, 24.1. Per cent. of goods from U. K., 20.1; per cent. of goods
from U. S., 65.1.

Exports to United Kingdom, $177,982,002; exports to United States,
$150,961,675. Percentage goods exported U. K., 47.1; percentage goods
exported U. S., 40.1.

CHAPTER VII

THE COMING OF THE FOREIGNER