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Excerpt from Canada: An Appeal for Racial Concord and National Unity: Speech Delivered in Proposing the Toast of "Canada" At the Annual Banquet of the St. Patrick's Society, Windsor Hotel, Montreal, March 17th, 1920
And into this magnificent country Providence, as if to assure its mighty destiny, has poured the best' of all the peoples of the, earth. Read over the figures of the census and you'will see that in addition to the four great ethnical elements the French, the Irish, the Scotch and the English the population of the Dominion includes men of every race and from every clime in the 'known World a great cosmopolitan population that will be moulded by the process of time and the fires of patriotism into one mighty united people the Canadian people. And of the total population of the Dominion more than one million, or nearly one-eight of the whole, are Irish. The exact. Figures, according to the last census were and no doubt the forthcoming census will show an even larger number.
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