13 MARCH 1926, Page 14

Mr. Randolph Bruce is the son of a Scottish Pres-

byterian minister and began life in the shipyards at Glasgow. One day he picked up a Canada Year Book and decided to emigrate. This was in 1880. He did various jobs, chiefly engineering for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and finally acquired a lead mine. At his charming house on Lake Windermere I once had the pleasure of being his guest and learned something of his story, which is too long to tell. Enough to say, when I saw him last month in London he was on his way to Buckingham Palace to be received on appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. One who has risen from a penniless Glasgow boy to a wealthy mine-owner ought to know, and Mr. Bruce says there is more opportunity now in Canada than when he was young.

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