CANADIAN IMPRESSIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 2 July 1937, Page 4

CANADIAN IMPRESSIONS

AIR L. J. WILD’S EXPERIENCES

Air J. Knight, chairman of the Board of Managers of the Feilding Agricultural High School, has received a letter from the principal, Air L. J. Wild, written while he was in Canada on route to England. “I have seen a good many schools—some very good on the ‘trades’ side, with good workshops, both for woodwork and metalwork. I have seen no schools with anything much in the way of agriculture, but I had a fairly good look round the Ontario College of Agriculture at Guelph. This is considered one of the best of its kind. I have also visited two Dominion experiment stations, one on Vancouver Island and one in Saskatchewan,” says Mr Wild. “We travelled across Canada mostly by daylight, so have had as good a look nt tho country as one can get from a train: but we have seen some parts by motor-car as well. “Although it is spring, the prairies, especially in Alberta, look bare beyond description—a wilderness, with solitary places. Saskatchewan is not much better, but trees begin to appear in the eastern part. .Manitoba was beginning to look well, tho wheat showing up nicely. But Ontario pleased us most. The country is green like New Zealand, and just at tins time the tree-lined roads’, with maples just coming into full leaf, and the apple orchards full of blossom, made a great sight. But one missed the sheep—it is mostly a cattle untrv with some eropning, and 20 to 30 sheep is an average flock, and there are not many of them either. “I have met the Ministers of Agriculture in Saskatchewan, Alanitobn and Ontario, and the Alinister or Education in the first province, and the Directors of Education in most. They have been very helpful. An

official of the department here was told off yesterday to conduct us on a sightseeing tour of this most interesting city of Quebec. Plere white man and red man first clashed 300 years ago; later the French and the English; so that the place is steeped in history and full ot romance. Alost of the people spoali English and French; the rest French only. We saw a great many interesting places that the ordinary tourist would not he likely to see, as our guide, Air Woodley, is a student of local history and knows exactly where to go. Of course, we went to Battlefield Park and the Heights of Abraham; we also went down into Wolfe’s Cove, where tho troops landed and climbed up the cliffs, and visited the battlefield and the place were Wolfe died. But in the city we saw the littlo chape] where Alontcalm, the French general, was brought and buried in a hole- made by tho Englishboiuhardment in the chapel walls. We also poked about among the French houses in the narrow streets ot the lower town. It was a good day of sight-seeing and served to aid in revising Canadian history.”