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ADDRESS COMMUNICATIONS TO WILFRED R. DEAN Thornhill - Ont OPTOMETRISTS EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS L'horough Eye Examinations and Glasses That Fit Perfectly. 9min] Attention to Children's Eyes. Open Evenings. Plume Hudson 0461 for Appointment. #-â€"~ -- nn All Kinds of Boot In case of breaks or bum brakes Who Pays the :Damag‘ie ? YOU DO ! Agent For Automobile Insurance. TEL. 118 RICHMOND HILL ' ONTARIO PLUMBING Hot Wa OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN / 167 Yonge Street, Toronto 2. (Upstairs Opposite Simppon's) Elzin 4820 Eyes Examined-- Thornhill Field Day July Ist Lnuuuu" Tim BINli-BPTICAL co. 2513 Yonge St. North Toronto. (Opposite the Capitol Theatre) We carry a full line of Quality Groceries and Pro- visions and solicit your patronage. We assure you of prompt and courteous service at all times. Groceries and Provxgmons BY THE MOST MODERN METHODS. ’ GLASSES IF REQUIRED AT RIGHT PRICES ARTIFICIAL EYES FITTED. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927. PAINTING, PAPERHANGING ~ Iflterior Decorating All the newest designs in finest quality wall papers to choose from. 1 Estimates GlaHly Given. Prices Moderate. L. B. FINCH. Elizabeth St. â€"’ Richmond Hill Richmond Hill Cartage W. N. Mabbett W. J. SNIDER & SON Phoneâ€"Willowdale 96W Schomberg Junction‘ Phone King 306 Gmceries, Confectionery Flour, Feed, Etc. WE DELIVER- Unless You, Insure With. Boot Telephone 23 r Electrical Contractor POYNTZ AVENUE ' LANSING, ONT. â€" MOVING â€" LONG D}STANCE HAULING. Phone Richmond Hill 52. QUICK SERVICE x. C. HENDERSON BING AND TINSMITHING . Water Heating and General Repairs THORNHILL. ONT. is of Boot and Shoe Repair- , in; Neatly Done Good Workmanship./ Prompt Service. in Winterton’s Old Stand Yonge St. F. E. LUKE For Automobile Insurance. . G. SAVAGE ’ahd Shoe Repairer. GEO. KIDD E. SLINEY Ontario ' Birthdays are such funny things! While we are young we just love 5 {them Then, as we grow older, we try to forget them. Even the young 1ladies don’t like them mentioned at Iallâ€"â€".when they get past thirty. Yes 3 birthdays are funny things. Do you ,‘remember YOUR Birthday? 0f 1. course you do! Have you ever had ’a Birthday Party? Sure you have. ._ l and such a. jolly time it was too. Have you ever stopped to think what a variety of Birthdays there really, are? Those that we remember chiefly are our own Birthdays, and the Birthdays of those near and dear to us. Father’s Birthday. Mother’s Birthday. The Birthdays of Sisters and brothe s, of Aunts and Uncles of friends an playmates. And then too we remember the Birthday of the King, and specially rejoice because we have a. holiday on that occasion. same happy smile would overspread the countenance of those bfave, hero- 1ic men of vision whom we now call the “Father’s of Confederation” could' they but ’wake and see the present Dominion of Canada that they \helped 'to f‘ashion inotl‘ose long, long years. ago. ' ~ >. fitting that, in this Diamond Jubilee ‘Year, we, who are their successors and deeds of those ambitious men who 'and heirs, should pause awhile and recall, out of the dim past, the names made this Canada of Our possible. What struggles they had to ove I come. What privations and difi‘iculi- ties they had to endure. Yet what a glorious structure they reared; What emotions must have stirred their breasts as they labored for the fu- ture of their beloved Countryâ€"and Ours. ' Little girls I have known have even had Birthdays- for their dollies, and when I was a wee, small boy, ever so long ago, I used to celebrate my lit- tle doggie’s Birthday almost every week; Of course that was before I really unde'rstood that Birthdays, real Birthdays, only come once a year. While we are young, we look for- ward to heaps and heaps of Birth- days in the future, but when we have grown old We look back on our Birth- days with regretâ€"for having passed them. Yet all the same we seldom forget them, for are they not mile- stones on the way of life? What exictement there was over our youthful Birthdays! r How eager- ly we planned them weeks and weeks ahead. How impatiently we inquir- ed for the date and the day ,long before it was due. And how excited we grew as we issued invitations to our friends for our new Birthday par- ty. What wonderful decorations Were put up for our celebration of the great event. What mysterious com- ings and goings there were in the old home asthe magic date grew nearer and nearer. Reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.embracing the North Magnetic Pole, stretching to the Is- land of the Arctic seas, Canada con- tains within her boundaries all that is necessary to make this Dominion land contented Nation on earth. From Arctic fields of ice and cold to roll- ing prairies bathed in sunshine; from Yes. yes, we all remember our Birthdays, and especially the ones of our youth. All to quickly they pass .aWay, and grow older and more dig- ‘nified. Yet, somehow, Birthdays nev- er quite lose their charm and magic, for they conjure up so many hapoy memories, sacred memories, of the days that? are gone forever. What strangely-shaped parcels were smuggled in by Father and Mother and what skilful and laughing parry- ings there were to our persistent qu- estionings as to just what those par- cels contained! But at last the Great Day arrived, and we were up so early in the morning, long before anyone else was awake. Then, what a hunt took place. What screams of sur- prise! What hugs and kisses given and received. What joy, what rap- ture, what delight.” _.._, _. _., v Nevertheless, it is of another kind of Birthday that 1 want to tell you now. Not a personal Birthday, not a,.Birthday of anyone I know, but the Confederation Birthday of this beloved CANADA of Ours! Yes, the Birthday of the mighty Dominion of Canada. Perhaps you Have never thought before that the Dominion had a birthday all its very own, but it as [and it is about that great event t at ’1' want tottell you about in this Chat! For the Dominion 9f Canada this dear Homeland of ours, is celebrating its Sixtieth birthday on the First of July this very year, and so we call it Can- ada's Diamond Jubilee of Confedera- tion. ' The Diamond Jubilee Of The Confederation of Canada. How Canada has grown! How great she has become. How world- renowned, how glorious, how beautiful year after year she has become stronâ€" ger,rand richer, and/more famous, un- til at this. her Diamond Jubilee of Confederation, Canada is known and respected the whole wide world over. Far. far beyond the borders of her East and Western Gates, Beyond the tide-washed shores of distant strands, Has gone the fame and glory of ‘ these wide Canadian States, nThe work of Providence in good men's hands. I well remember, a few years ago, showing my Son. now grown tall, a pair of shoes he used to wear when he was a baby. And as he examined those tiny shoes nestling in the palm of his hand, a sweet smile overspread his features as he turned to the and said,â€"“Oh, Dad, surely I was never able to wear these.” Methinks the With the unquenchable love, of freedom burning in their hearts, no effort was too great, no sacrifice too much for them to ma '6, so long as they secured for Game. this great blessing of a United, yet freesDom- inion stretching from sea to sea. And how wonderously their cherished dreams have come true! “ The Story of Canada ” Specially Prepared by Norman R. Cole (Uncle Dick) for our Boy and Girl Readers. deeply-wooded hills to snow-capped valleys to fish-teeming rivers; every known natural beauty and richness lies with the borders of this Canada of ours. We Glory in her mountains and her grandly rushing streams; And we weave her snowy beauty in the rainbow of our dreams. Let us take a peep. You and I, into the dim past, into the very beginn- ings of Canada’s greatness. In the year 1497, John” Cabot one of the Merchant Venturers of Bristol, Eng- land in his little vessel named the Cape Breton Island, and hoisted thereon the Royal Standard. From 1534 to 1541 Jacques Cartier of France explored the St. Lawrence River as'far as Montreal; but it was Samuel de Champlain who was the real founder of Canada as he was associated with die Monts in estab- lishing Porth Royal in 1605, and him- self founded Quebec in 1608. In 1663 the Charter of the Hundred As- sociates which had been organized by Cardinal Richelieu in 1627 to govern New France, was cancelled and Cana- da came under the immediate con- trcgand government of France. 7 This system of government lasted until the end of the French period in 1760. Mamy French names of fame are associated with this period of Canada‘s development, among them being Frontenac, Laval, Talon, Mais- onneuve, Dollard, LaVerendrye and LaSalIe, to name only a few of the men who opened up part of what is now the Dominion to the knowledge of the civilized world, and whose names are still kept alive in many notable institutions in Canada. In the year 1713, by the Treaty of Utrecht, Nova Scotia (Acadia) was surrendered to the British; and the struggle for the Valley of the St. Lawrence between Wolfe and Mont- calmâ€"a struggle which cost both leaders their lives at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Canada, including, Cape Breton Is- land, and what is now known as New Brunswick, became after the Treaty of Paris in 1763, a British Crown c 1- ony, with a. government of a pure y military kind‘In 1774 the boundaries were extended, and' the passing of the Quebec Act gave to the French Canadians the fullest permission to practice their ,own religion, as well as many other rights» This generous Act brought its own re‘ward in 1775 to the British, when the Americans invaded Canada for it rallied the French-Canadians to the defence of their country, and, under theoable leadership of Sir Guy Carleton, later Lord Dorchesterâ€" Canada was waved to the British Empire.‘ In the year 1791 Canada was given a new Con- stitutional Act , which divided the Canada of that time into two separâ€" ate provincesâ€"Upper and Lower Can- fidaâ€"now known as Ontario and Que- ec. During the war of 1812-1815, be- tween the United States and Canada many famous battles were fought on both sides of the boundary, among them being the Battles at petroit, Niagara, Queenston Heights, Stony Creek and Beaver Dams, Chateau- guay and Crysler’s Farm and. Platts- burg, as well as several naval engag- ments on Lake Ontario. Many of Wellington’s Peninsular War veter- ans were sent to Canada by the‘ Britâ€" Government to-assist the Canadians in the defence of their country; and Sir Isaak: Brock, at that time Admin- istrator of Upper Canada and a gal- lant general, was ably assisted by French-Canadian voltiguers, ‘as Well as by the native Indian Chief, Tecum- seh, and his fearless followers. ‘ In the year 1814, Great Britain and the United States came to terms of peace, and from that time onward the population of the two provinCes of Upper and Lower Canada was steadily increased by many thousands of settlers who came overseas to take up residence in the two provinces; as Well as in the‘Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. , Unfortunately, during many misunderstandings tween Upper and Lower many sad mistakes were THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONT. these years occurred be- Canada, and made in the attempts to reconcile the two prov- inces. Even rebellion was resorted to as a means of enforcing a settle- ment of the troubles; until in 1839 a Bill \to join the Upper and Lower was drawn up. Though this idea had been suggested before, it was never taken seriously until it was suggest- ed by Lord Durham as a remedy for the difficulties of the situation then prevailing._ .r _ _ _ t This Bill. which contained certain provisions for setting up a;Responsi- ble Government, passed the British Parliament in 1840, and in 1841 the Act of Union came into forCe, and the First Parliament of United Canada met at Kingston, Ontario, on June 14,"’1841.‘l From this time on condi- tions gradually improved, new settle- ments were founded various com- munities received a certain measure of local self - govern- ment; educational facilities were in- creased; transportation was improved the country generally grew and pros- pered; and the majority of the‘peo- ple worked for harmony and! progress. uv...v- -v- wr,,u Let us now turn, for a fet‘ mom- ents, to cpnsider the history and con- ditions of the three Maritime provinc- es of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Follow- ing the discovery of Cape Breton by Cabot, a great many years passed be- fore an appreciable settlement took place in Nova. Scotia, and it was not until the foundation of Halifax in 1749, that the British stock took m root there. Of the present po_ la- tion of nearly 550,000, about 85 per cent. are of British descent. At the close of the American Revolutionary War a great number of United Em- pire Loyalists settled in Nova Scotia and it is from such sturdy ancestors that three of Canada’s famous sons, and Sir Robert Borden are decended. dants. The Island of Cape Breton, which had been ceded to Great Britain in 1763 was for a while attached to the government of Nova Scotia. In 1784 it was made a separate province, but in1830 was re-united to Nova Scotia. From this time on Cape Breton has been identified with its larger sister island for governmental punpo‘ses. A1__ “15 u». vvv Turning now to Prince Edward Is-_ land, named, after the Father of Queen Yictoria. it was originally cal- led “Abeg'weit,” by the Indians,-mean- ing “Resting on the Wave.” It has also been called the “Garden of the Gulf." The island lies parellel to the New Brunswick‘and Nova Scotia coasts, and is the smallest province in the Dominion of Canada. Its au- thentic history dates back to 1534/ iwhen Jacques Cartier, that doughty old sea rover, landed there under the impression that he had reached the imainland. It was for a while held iin tenure by the French but after the ifall of the great fortress of Louis- ,burg, Cape Bretbn Island, in 1758, {British forces took possession. It lwas at Charlottetown, the Capital of the Island that the famous Confer- ence of Canadian leaders took place tat led to the formation of a Canad- ian Constitution, thereby earning for itself the unofficial title of,“The Cra- Adle of Confederation." Prince Ed- 'ward Island also has the distinction lof being the most thickly populated lprovince in the Dominion. It is also linteresting 'to notiCe that while On- ytario and Quebec were granted Res- ;ponsible Government at‘the time of ithe coming into force of the Act of [Union in 1841, itw as not until 1848 that Nova Scotia and New Brunswick lwere granted Responsible Govern- ‘ment; and Prince Edward Island u.d [not receive it until 1851. l i r l l l l l l 1 New Brunswick’s history is largely a parallel of Nova Scotian history, though somewhat less strenuous. First sighted in 1534 by Cartier, it was not until 1604 that the Bay of Fundy coast was carefully explored by Champlain, deMonts and some eighty contpanions. This province was orig- inally part of Nova Scotia territory, but in 1784 the district lying north of the Missaguash was formed into New Brunswick with the Capital at Fred- ericton. The port of St. John has since become‘ famous as the national winter steamship terminus of 'Canada and has‘ extensive facilities for the loading and unloading of vessels ply- ing across the Atlantic. _ I , 1.1 J_;___.I 1.. REAL ESTATE Richmond Hill BONDS INSURAN‘ J. R. HERRINGTON FINANCIAL AGENT ONTARIO FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION LOANS INSURANCE Phone 87 Richmond Street WARNING ‘THE WEED . ¢4$CONTROL / t f ' ' 1927 ' HON. JOHN S. MARTIN Blocks Made To Order 01' From Our Stock At Yards The Department of Agriculture COMPULSORY GET OUR PRICES ON (31*) El EZN'I‘ VV ()RK IT WILL PAY YOU CEMENT MIXERS FOR RENEW UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF Every occupant of land and every v'owner of unocâ€" cupied land is required ‘to destroy all noxious weeds before seeds ripen. Municipal Councils are required to destroy all noxi- ous weeds growing upon the highWays. NOW IN FORCE the destruction of noxious weeds is no longer optimal. Let everyone co-operate to end the weed nuisance. “The dcsfgruction of noxious weeds is now " :‘mé‘fggzfifii Minister Province of Ontario [Parliament Buildings, Toronto G. S. REAMAN ONTARIO W. B. ROADHOUS'E V‘Richmond Hi1:- Deputy Minister PAGE SEVEN