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Granted, we have had and still do have our troubled spots, difficulties and rough ground over which we must pass. No doubt there have been times when many of us have wondered if our great Country would always be one and if founding Canada was not a mistake in the first place. But we have passed over all the obstacles so far and if we could manage this for the first hundred years, why can we not do it for the next hundred or more?
We are a young Country! To those who say that Canada has little to 'offer', I. say that they are not worthy of being a Canadian, that they are not worthy of reaping the benefits of our Greatness, that they are not worthy of livlng in our Nation. Canada is a land of the young, and young ideas; and yet a haven for the thriving cultures of the old world blending into our youthood splendidly. How wonderful it is to be numbered in this twenty million where happiness and prosperity can be pursued in our everyday life. We must never forget, however, that our Country w111 only be what we make it. It wm give back to us only what we put into it, To reap a full harvest, we must work hard. Our Country will always stand high and mighty ONLY if we continue to uphold those ideals which our Founding Fathers and their Successors have laid down.
The spirit of sacrifice and endurance that we have inherited must never die, for with it our Canadfl would die also. 1967 could very well be the year of our birth in another way, the birth of Canadianism, which unlike the birth of a country, does not fall on a special date, but during a special era after the nation's nativity and is the result of this spirit of sacrifice and endurance and love which is beginning to show itself more brightly than ever.
1967 is OUR year. Let us make it the best -- the beginning of the best, for each year we will be striving for a 'better best' than the year before!
A TRIP
FIRST - JUNIOR PROSF
The time is now two o'clock p.m. I've been waiting about three and a half hours for the departure.
Ah! We're taking off and within a few short minutes we are eight miles high and on our way to Fantasy, the land of the unknown.
As we pass on through other dimensions, fam111ar objects take on a new perspective. They not only have their former shapes but they have taken on additional features like furniture with wings and wheels and animal features combined with those of other animals to create new and altogether different creatures; some of which are even unimaginable,
Now we travel on even further. We have passed out of the period of the fourth dimension and are making our way to the fifth. Fantasy.
After a brief period, we arrive. What a wonderful place it is. It is un- imaginable. It is a land of weird, wonderful shapes and creatures and eerie sounds and colours. And besides this, there is perpetual motion; in and out, up and down, sideways, around. Walls close in and move out and the floor and ceiling cave in and expand again and the eerie objects swirl and curl.
We are on our way back now. Once again we pass through the fourth dimen- sion and once again we bid farewell to the weird objects. Ah! We are back to our natural world. Once again things are in their proper perspective. Once again we are forced to face reality. No longer are we in a world of our own. We are back. Fantasia is now past. A trip has been completed, never to be forgotten.
Randy Morritt
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