"FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN CANADA"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 57, 25 May 1942, Page 2

"FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN CANADA"

"Out of 11 y 2 millions of Canada's population, 5*4 millions were AngloSaxons, 3V2 million Frenchmen, and 2Vi million belong to many nationalities, including Jugoslavs, Russians, Czechoslovaks and Poles. They all contribute their share to the development of the modern Commonwealth," said Mr C. Blair Birkett, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, at the Czechoslovak Association, Auckland'.! Mr Birkett's talking film unfolded the dramatic story. An inspiring cavalcade of cosmopolitan groups, some in national dresses, streaming into the land of liberty and of opportunities. Each national brought its peculiar talents in blazing the trail through great ranges, spanning roaring rivers, farming, building industrial cities from the majestic forests of the frontiers with U.S.A. to the beyond of the Arctic wastes. Some communities settled in more or less geographically compact districts, clinging to their customs, newspapers and churches, including the Orthodox, Russian Dukhobors, Mohammedan. Mr Blumenthal, in charge, thanked Mr C. Blair Burkett, for the absorbing demonstration.