The Canadian contingent, one thousand strong, sailed from Quebec on
Monday. After a formal inspection the Viceroy, Lord Minto, bade farewell to the regiment in a short speech in which he emphasised the epoch-making character of the occasion. The regiment commanded by Colonel Otter repre- sented not only the manhood of the Dominion from West to East—the companies being gathered from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast, from settlers in the Rockies, Ontario, and the seaboard, from old families and friends in Quebec— but it was the spontaneous gift of the people of Canada, British born and French-Canadians, to the Mother-country. Sir Wilfrid Laurier in an eloquent address declared that the object of the war was not conquest, subjugation, or the crushing out of Dutch nationality ; it was to establish British sovereign law, to assure to all men in South Africa an equal share of liberty.
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