BRITISH NOT UNPOPULAR IN WESTERN
CANADA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Several prominent people, among them the Bishop of London and Archbishop Lloyd of Saskatchewan, have recently been saying that Britons are unpopular in the overseas parts of the Empire.
Certainly there are a few narrow-minded people everywhere, who express their dislike of those who come from another country, no matter where they come from, but so far as Britons in Canada are concerned, the reverend gentlemen are badly misinformed.
The Canadian wheat pools, you will agree, fairly represent Canadian business. Well, what do we find in this, the largest business of its kind in the world, a business with a membership
of over 60 per cent, of the farmers in Western Canada ? More than half the directors, managers and staff of the three pools,
and their central selling agency, are British. This does not look as though the British are unpopular with the farmers. And that will apply to business management throughout Canada.
Looking higher up, we find men like Dunning, Stewart, Forke, and many more, Provincial Premiers, Ministers holding
the important folios in the Dominion Government, and so on, most of whom came to Canada poor and unknown. An Britons. It is a strange brand of unpopularity that places these men in more than half the important positions in Canada.
And human nature is the same all the world over. If instead of listening to a few disgruntled opinions, people would take the trouble to inform themselves from the proper and easily accessible SOUTCES, there would be less silly talk, and it would probably be found that the foregoing is true of the
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