Spaaking at the annual meeting of the Geographical Association at Univorsity College, London, Dr. G. R. Parkin, secretarv of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, said that tho cold weather was one of Canada's greatest assets. It rnled out the "black problem" altogether and kept out the natives of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. Consequently tho population consisted of tho strong Northern races. More important still was tho effect of tho climate on the Englishmen who formed tho "submerged tenth'" of Canada. Nature 'there took such n man, as it were, by the scruff of tho neck, and said: "If you don't have industry, foresight, end prudence you will die. The Tesult woe that a man of this type had his baokoone strengthened and became a [tood citizen.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 6
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126Untitled Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 6
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