PREFACE

_Letter of the Most Reverend O. E. Mathieu,
Archbishop of Regina, to the Author_

REVEREND G. DALY, C.SS.R.,
St. John, N.B.

Dear Father,--

Quebec Province claims you as her son. There you lived for many years;
there you learned to admire the peaceful life and to appreciate the
genuine happiness of our patriarchal families; there you were an
eyewitness of the "bonne entente" and noble rivalry which exist between
the ethnical groups that go to make up its population.

At various times your sacred ministry has brought you in touch with the
other Eastern Provinces of our broad Dominion. A keen observer, you
readily grasped existing conditions and the mentality of the various
elements of our Canadian Population.

The year 1917 found you laboring in our beloved Province of
Saskatchewan, as Rector of our Cathedral. For three years you lived
with us. The possibilities of our great West soon appealed to your
enthusiastic heart. The various problems which here engage the
attention of the Church fired your soul with noble ambition. I shall
never forget the good you have done in the parish committed to your