g crowd that surrounded him
and got to close quarters at once, the Prince alighted and stayed a few
minutes at the statue of Georges Etienne Cartier, the father of
Canadian unity, whose centenary was then being celebrated, since the
war forbade rejoicing on the real anniversary in 1914.

Cartier's daughter, Hortense Cartier, was present at this little
ceremony, and she was, as it were, a personal link between her father
and the Prince, who is himself helping to inaugurate a new phase of
unity, that of the Empire.

From this point the Prince's route struck out into the country
districts that I have described, but the crowds had accumulated rather
than diminished when he returned to the streets of the city, about one
o'clock, and he drove through lanes of people so dense that at times
the pace of his car was retarded to a walk.

The crowd was a suggestive one. All ranks and conditions were in
it--and conditions rather than ranks were apparent in the dock-side
area, which is a dingy one for Canada. But in all the crowds the thing
that struck me most was their proportion of children. Montreal seemed
a veritable hive of children. There were thousands and thousands of
them.

The streets were bursting with kiddies. And not merely were there
multitudes of girls and boys of that thoroughly vociferous age of
somewhere under twelve, but there were ranked battalions of boys and
maids, all of an age obviously under twenty.

Quebec is the province of large families. Ten children to a marriage
is a commonplace, and twenty is not a rarity. A man is not thought to
be worth his salt unless he has his quiver full. And the result of
this as I saw it in the streets gives food for thought.

That huge marshalling of the citizens of tomorrow gives one not merely
a sense of Canada's potentiality, but of the potentiality of Quebec in
the future of Canada. With a new race of such a healthy standard
growing up, the future of Montreal has a look of greatness. Montreal
is now the biggest and most vigorous city in Canada, it plays a large
part in the life of Canada. What part will it play tomorrow?

A good as well as great part, surely. Discriminating Canadians tell
you that the French-Canadian makes the best type of citizen. He is
industrious, go-ahead, sane, practical; he is law-abiding and he is
loyal. His history shows that he is loyal; indeed, Canada as it stands
today owes not a little to French-Canadian loyalty and willin