Toiling long hours in wet clothes, risking their lives on slippery logs in seething, roaring rivers—such was the life of the oldtime raftsmenBy ARTHUR HEMING20 min
FROM the standpoint of success in politics, Murray MacLaren came into the world with three distinct advantages. He was a Maritimer; he was Scotch; and his father had destined him for medicine. To be born anywhere between Campbellton and Sydney is an equivalent to the inevitableness of some day owning a bank, or being president of a university, or getting into Parliament or a Cabinet; but when, added to that, one happens to be Scotch and of the medical profession there is simply no escape.By M. GRATTAN O’LEARY18 min
Feeling gloomy? Here’s a Christmas present in the shape of an article on the wonders the Tower Age has in store for Canada. Read it. You’ll be an optimist—with reasonBy C. L. SIBLEY18 min
A spirited reply to Frederick Edwards’ “Bootleg Amateurs” in which an amateur executive declares: “The bootleg bomb is a dud."By H. H. ROXBOROUGH16 min
The story of a great Canadian whose adventuring in the Far Places of the North ranks him as one of the foremost explorers of our timeBy GRANT DEXTER15 min
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