The school teachers of Western Canada are engaged in a
task of real Empire-building and it is impossible to over- estimate its value. The annual report of the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf for the supply of British teachers to Western Canada contains a record of much excellent work. A stay-at-home English teacher in an elementary school would find it hard to visualize the daily routine of a teacher in the Canadian West. Friends of mine in many of the Canadian schools in the Prairie Provinces have told me something of their lives ; frequently they have to attempt to instil a knowledge of the King's English among pupils representing sixteen or seventeen nationalities. A teacher in Saskatchewan tells me that her pupils are made up of Canadian born, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Icelanders, Galicians, Danes, Finns, Swedes, Indian half- breeds, American-born French-Canadians and Russians. * * * *
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