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With the Jubilee of Confederation only a week away reports received indicate that the arrangements for the celebration throughout the Dominion are well in hand everywhere, and that the various localities are vying with each other in their desire to show to the world that, after sixty years, Canada is a united country in spirit and in fact. Not only are the cities and big centres of population giving gen- erously of their time, energy and finances to insure that the annivers- ary is adequately celebrated but from the remotest points come reports that citizens of Canada, young and old are enthusiastically preparing for the ev- ent a month hence. While the Na- tional Committee, shortly after its organization circulated throughout the Dominion a suggested program for the three days of celebration, starting July lst, and ending with the third, reports indicate that there will be a wide and interesting diverâ€" gence of features characteristic of the various parts of the Dominion, and typ'cal of their respective inter- ests an pursuits. FromtAtlantic to Pacific there is evidence of a univer- sal desire for the manifestation of Canadian sentiment, irrespective of varied geographical or economic con- ditions. Reports show that there will be a Whole-souled mapifestation of concurrence in the original objects of Cnnféderation and of satisfaction in: Local programs will, of neceSSity, be diversified, and varied in character, and will include community singing, athletics and sporting competitions, regattas, pageants and floats. The planting of maple trees, the unveil- ing of monuments and memorials, c'er- emonies connected \W'ltll the naming and dedic'ation of Confederation parks and squares, folk dances and Indian pow-WOWS, old home reunions, and the gathering together of venerable and venerated figures, fireworks and bon- fires, children’s festivals, etc., etc. Confederation and of satisfaction the results thereof. With a view toward ascertaining the nature of the activities in the variousprovinces the National Com- mitte communicated by wire with the heads of the provincial organizations and have received replies from the majority. Hon. F. J. Nash of Char- lottetown reports that, in addition t6 the big celebration planned for the Capital of the Island, there will be celebrations at Summerside, George- town, Tignish, Alberton, Montague, Souris and ot er centres. An interest- ing feature 0 the Charlottetown cel- ebration will be the unveiling of a Confederation tablet and the laying of a wreath in the Legislative chambers at"1.30 on the afternoon of Friday. The Lieutenant Governor will pres- ide over events at Victoria Park where messages from His Majesty the King and others will be read, and where Percy Pope, son of one of the Fathers of Confederation will deliv- er an historic address. There will be yacht racing, acquatic and other sports, community singing, fireWorks, bonfires, etc. J. D. Black, secretary of the prov- incial committee of New Brunswick reports that “every pupil enrolled in the public schools of the province will be presented with a Union Jack to be carried in the celebration parades, and retained at the same time that the children’s Confederation medals are being presented.” The gove1~n~ ment of the province will also erect a bronze ’plaque suitably inscribed in the provincial legislature to honor the memory of the eight New Bruns~ wick Fathers of Confederation. The Preparations From Coast To Coast For Jubilee Celebrations All Provinces Keen To Show Unity Spiritâ€"Whole Souled Concurrence In Original Objects of Confederation. PAGE SIX / EHIND the beauty of Chevru‘et them is Che'fi-olet Historv â€"â€" is selling a! ntw, low ' an abundance of strength and stamma, pn es. 12m 10“ or which Chm-rule: has . . . . . V . , r , Morley S. Hamilton Thornhill . John Heise provincial librarian and archivist at Victoria, B. C. reports as folloWs; “Approximately 250 com- munities are celebrating in a note- worthy manner as are also .many small schools. Elaborate prepara- tions are being made in larger centr- es for the staging of ceremonies typi- fying dominion history from the ear- liest times, and outstanding dominion and provincial incidents. The local committees are showing much care and skill, ingenuity and enthusiasm and the school teachers are specially iunited in an intensive program of Fredericton celebration will continue during three days, and the official program at noon on Dominion Day in front of the Parliament Buildings will be carried by loud speakers to those assembled. There will be par- ades of school children, fraternal and national societies and service clubs, floats etc. and the royal salute will be fired at high noon, while speeches will be delivered by Premier Baxter. A. A. Dysart, opposition leader, and others. In the evening there will be a Mardi Gras carnival on Parliament Square, culminating with a firework display fired from‘ barges on the St. John River in front of the illuminated legislative buildings. Celebrations of a similar character will be continued on Saturday, while on Sunday there will be an undenominational service in the open air. The report states that “similar celebrations extending over three days will be held at every incorporated city and town in New Brunswick as well as in many centres of population which are not incorpor- ated; The provincial committee has approximately fifty local committees organized and working strenuously, and in communities too small to have any other kind of celebration the Ju- bilee of Confederation will be honored at the formal closing exercises at the‘ public schools on June 30th, this en- suring observation in 2,000 Centres.” From Regina comes the report by Leroy Johnson to the effect that over 200 local points in Saskatchewan have Organized ‘Vstrorlgwc-émmittees for a proper celebration. In large centres the occasion will be observed by elab- orate programs on all three days. Confederation history. The commit~ tee feels that all labors will eventuate in memorable inspirational ceremonies with resultant good to citizenship and pride in the Dominion." A striking feature of the activities at local points is the arrangements being made for community gatherings, spe- cial attention being paid to giving the school children a prominent p’art. In some cases from five to forty school districts will be consolidated at a central point to take part in the cele- brations. Present indications are that Saskatchewan’s seven cities, 80 towns and approximately 200 villages will celebrate enthusiastically and befit- tingly. Manitoba is preparing for the celeâ€" bration' with great energy and origin- ality. The provincial Committee, D. S. Woods, its secretary, reports has sent personal letters to 600 reeves, mayors and service clubs inviting them to organize. Organizations are complete in 73 centres. Letters have also been sent to 2,000 school teachers with suggested programs included and heads of churches have been invited to join. TWO minute radio reports of progress are being sent out, daily, while eighty-five country newspapers are being supplied with articles of an educative character. Alberta is also in the forefront. Edmonton is to entertain 15,000 chil- dren from its publicsand separate schools in Victoria Park on June 30th. the committee has conceived the thought of having the Edmonton school ‘child of the family with the longest Canadian ancestry light the_ bonfire that will be one of the thou- sand flames set alight on Jubilee night. The same city’s_celebration also includes the placing of wreaths on the grave of Father Lacombeâ€" noted missionary. From furthest north points in this province, and from remote points in the Territories comes the report that celebrations will be carried out. This is a goBd world all right if we don’t spoil it with licenses and per- mits. AGENTS FOR TREES HAR- NESS and HARNESS REPAIRS. Roofing Tarred Paper Carpet Felt Etc. Poutry Netting and Stap es Richmond Hillâ€"Ont. 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Commercial Chassis l-Ton Truck Chassis 1 When the fathers of the first trans- ,continental line conceived their pro- ‘subject to line up east and west they had probably no conception of what their enterprise would stand for half a century later; they did not visual- ize ships carrying the company flag on the seven seas, or a network of ir- on through nine prosperous provinces Similarly a group of Canadians who decided, twenty-three years ago to launch into what then was known as the “horseless carriage” did not an- ticipate that products of their enter- prise Would.be trail breakers not only in this Dominion but in darkest Af- rica, in the interior fastnesses of the great Indian Empire and on the trackless wastes of the Australian continent. Yet their product has done more to familiarize British overseas territories with the advantage of automobile transportâ€"and with the meaning- of the phrase, “Made In Canada”-â€"â€" than has any other agency. For to the business they founded has fallen the lot of'furnishing a very large proportion of the automobile vehicles employed in the British ter- ritories. The Canadian Ford Car has conquered time and space in the ov- erseas Dominions as surely as it has here, and has 'built up in Canada an industry whose magnitude it is diffi- cult fully to appreciate. The sixty years since Confederation have witnessed a phenomenal growth of transport facilities in Canada. No of the world’s greatest carriers of passengers and freight have been de- veloped“ but this is by no means the full measure of our progress in the evolution of transport facilities. In the past two decades there has grown up a third organization which fur- nishes another form of transport, not alone in Canada but in all the British overseas territories, and it has be- come the Empire’s largest manufac- ‘turer of automobiles. Confederation Year Sees Rapid Strides In Transporlion Facilities Considering the Ford Motor Com- pany of Canada to-day, with its six thousand employees its fifteen acre machine shop housing four thousand modern and magically precise instru- ments of production; its enormous body plant where car bodies are ev- olved almost solély from sheet steel; its ultra modern power plant which burns powdered coal fed into giant furnaces eighty feet high and conâ€" taining ten and a half miles of boiler tubing; its large assembly branches in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg; its affiliated companies in Australia, Africa, India and the Straits settle- ments; it is difficult to realize that such an enormous industry\could have been built up in less than a quarter century. And yet it was only in 1905 that the foundations of this industry were laid by a little group of Canad- ian business men whose principle in- terest was a firm faith in the future ref automobile transport; and it was only twenty-three years ago that the entire plant of this company consisted solely of a two and a half storey .building and about one acre of ground its productive equipment of nothing more than drill press and its power source, the jacked up rear wheel of a Model C. Ford Car. It is a far cry from the little assembly plant of 11905 to the mammoth manufactory of to-day from the yearly production capacity of 100 cars in 1905 to the daily capacity of 500 cars at present. The factors that built up this in- ‘dustry which in Canada alone repres- ents an investment of twentyâ€"six mil- lions of dollars, were confidence in the future of the automobile, resolu- tion to reconcile high quality with low price, and courage to preach the gos- pel of a new system of transport in the remote sections of the British Empire. What that industry has come to mean to Canada it is difficult to picture in a few words. It is part of the economic structure of the coun- try and a very considerable factor in Canadian prosperity. Its enormous expenditures in Canada for labor and raw materials exceed by a considerâ€" able margin its gross revenue from sales in Canada. 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