Talks on the Land of the Maple

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Excerpt from Talks on the Land of the Maple: The Story of Canada for Juniors Chooshg the Class Tenn - Some member oi the class will have had recent experience of the coming oi a baby into the family and the choosing oi a name for it. Refer to this, ask if other names were thought of, why the name was chosen. Ii it is hard to choose the name for a baby, what about choosing the name for a baby-country? Tell them that before 1867 Canada was a number of divided Provinces. But that then men from every Province got together and drew up all the rules for making it one country. Then they wanted to know what to call it. (show picture oi The Fathers of Confederation here.) Ontario and Quebec, used to be called Upper and Lower Canada, so they decided to call the country Canada. But they had to have two names. What should the other he? Republic it could not be. And yet Kingdom some oi them did not like. One afternoon they stopped their meeting. All puzzled. For they did not know what that second name should be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.