PROHIBITION IN CANADA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In
Mr. Julian Huxley's article on Prohibition in the United States he remarks : " One Province of Canada after another has repealed its dry laws in favour of State Control, until now Canadian Prohibition exists in Ontario alone." In this statement he has quite overlooked the three Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, in which Prohibition is still in force. Probably he has never visited these Provinces and knows little about them. They have, however, a fine tradition of history and achieve- ment. It is sometimes said that their products are coal, lumber, fish—and college presidents. In Canadian history and literature these Provinces have played a part through their representatives quite out of proportion to their popula- tion. That population is still mainly of British and French origin, without the various foreign admixtures more common in the other Provinces. And some of the old ideals of educa- New Brunswick, Canada.
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