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\u201cOnce more Dominion day comes to have us honor again Canada\u2019s anniversary of birth. A July child she is, born in Island places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada? What does the name signify to Canadians?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dominion Day 1908 South Lake Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We recall that the distinguished Canadian Beverly Baxter, now and for years domiciled in London, remembered after a visit to his native shores but her \u201ckindness and courtesies” but also \u201cthe thousand glimpses of Canadian beauty\u2026 a full moon over Rockies so dazzling that the eyelids were forced down like a curtain\u2026 a mountain stream of light grey blue gurgling its story as it went sunlight dancing upon the water against a misty background of an Island in the Pacific\u2026 a solitary bark canoe on a northern lake paddled by an Indian stripped to the waist as if the white man had never come\u2026 New Brunswick\u2019s countryside crowned with garlands of wispy cloud as we soared above them in a plane\u2026 the lights of ships reflected on the waters as midnight came to Halifax…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 To Island farm- folks such as we, Canada is, we would say a friendly sky arched over a vast and varied domain farmland and forest, lake and river, mountain and plain. Hamlet and city; bounded by seas warm and colder, and a long, unprotected but respected neighbourly line, which separates Dominion and States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tignish Harbor Prince Edward Island Canada Day July First<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To us too, Canada means every blessing and love and loveliness of earth. It is within certain limitations \u2014 the right to live our lives as we choose with many a privilege and opportunity offered in this free land that is ours. It is a home, little or larger in valley, on hilltop or some where we choose to be, with a school, a church, good neighbours and all that about which makes life good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is within reason, the right to work at the calling or occupation of one\u2019s choice which as Stevenson said \u201cIf any man love the labour of any trade, apart from the question of success or failure, the gods have called him and he is indeed blest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada \u2014our own land, we salute you Good Luck and God Bless you we say as you step over the threshold into another year. May you continue to grow strong and great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                                     – Ellen\u2019s Diary, June 30th, 1956<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Islandnewspapers.ca<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this excerpt from Ellen’s Diary, Ellen channeled Sir Beverly Baxter’s 1949\u00a0MacLean’s<\/em>\u00a0article, I Found a new Canada<\/a>, and then reflected on what Canada meant to “Island farm folks.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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