LORD STRATHCONA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 October 1913, Page 7

LORD STRATHCONA.

, NINETY-THIRD BIRTHDAY. Lord Strathcona-i-eceived (says the Daily Telegraph)) some 'hundreds of messages from various parts of the United Kingdom and abroad on the occasion of his ninety-third birthday. A press representative who called upon his lordship in London found him busily endeavouring to reply personally to the piles; of greetings which lay before him. "Looking back from this, my ninety-third birthday, on Canada as it was seventy-five years agoy" !hg said, '"the change is indeed amazing. Canada ,)f as then comparatively a wilderness, with" a j^ l tjon of barely a million or so of people, and now she has eight or nine millions. And this is nothing to what it will -be in another three-quar-ters ,of a century, when it will unquestionably have- a population equal to or greater than that of the United Kingdom." "Little more than forty years ago," Lord Strathcona added, "the great territory of Rupert's Land, then possessed by the Hudson Bay Company, did not produce enough breadstuff for the use of the 200 or 300 white people who then resided at the Company's and out of that vast territory have been carved the provinces of Manitoba, ,Saskatchewan and Alberta—which produced last year 200,000,000 bushels of Wheat—the town of Winnipeg, then non-existent, with a population of 180,000 to 200,000, and several other, cities with populations ranging from 30,000 to 130,000, the /atter being that of the city of Vancouver to-day."