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MAMMALS OF NORTHERN CANADA 277
such peace the fruits of their industry. Chief among these must
be reckoned the policy of kindness and justice which was inaugurated
by the Hudson's Bay Company in their treatment of the
Indians. There is one of tbe causes in which a traders' association
has upheld the maxim " Honesty is the best policy," even when
you are dealing with savages. The wisdom and righteousness of
their dealing on enlightened principles, which are fully followed
out by their servants to- day, gave the cue to the Canadian Government.
The Dominion to- day. through her Indian officers and her
mounted constabulary, is showing herself the inheritress of those
traditions. She has been fortunate in organizing the Mounted
Police force, a corps of whose services it would be impossible to
speak too highly.
At the same place, a few years earlier, the late Marquis
of Dufferin expressed himself as follows:
There is no doubt that a great deal of the good feeling existing
among the red men and ourselves is due to the influence and Interposition
of that invaluable class of men, the half- breed settler and
pioneer of Manitoba, who, combining as they do the hardihood, the
endurance and love of enterprise generated by the strain of Indian
blood in their veins, with the civilization, the institutions, and the
intellectual power derived from their fathers, have preached the
gospel of peace and good- will and mutual respect, with equally
beneficent results to the Indian chieftain in his lodge and the British
settler in his shanty. They have been the ambassadors between
the East and the West, the interpreters of civilization, with its
exigencies, to the dwellers on the prairie, as well as the exponents
to the white men of the consideration justly due to the susceptibilities,
the sensitive self- respect, the prejudices, the innate sense
of justice of the Indian race. In fact, they have done for the
colony what would otherwise have been left unaccomplished, and
have introduced between the white population and the red man a
traditional feeling of amity and friendship which, but for them,
it might have been impossible to establish. Nor can I pass by the
humane, kindly and considerate attention which has distinguished
the Hudson's Bay Company in its dealings with the native population.
But though giving credit to these fortunate influences
among the causes that are conducing to produce and preserve the
happy result, the place of honour must be adjudged to that honourable
and generous policy which has been preserved by successive
Governments of Canada toward the Indian, which at this moment
is being superintended and carried out by your present Lieutenant-
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| OCR | MAMMALS OF NORTHERN CANADA 277 such peace the fruits of their industry. Chief among these must be reckoned the policy of kindness and justice which was inaugurated by the Hudson's Bay Company in their treatment of the Indians. There is one of tbe causes in which a traders' association has upheld the maxim " Honesty is the best policy," even when you are dealing with savages. The wisdom and righteousness of their dealing on enlightened principles, which are fully followed out by their servants to- day, gave the cue to the Canadian Government. The Dominion to- day. through her Indian officers and her mounted constabulary, is showing herself the inheritress of those traditions. She has been fortunate in organizing the Mounted Police force, a corps of whose services it would be impossible to speak too highly. At the same place, a few years earlier, the late Marquis of Dufferin expressed himself as follows: There is no doubt that a great deal of the good feeling existing among the red men and ourselves is due to the influence and Interposition of that invaluable class of men, the half- breed settler and pioneer of Manitoba, who, combining as they do the hardihood, the endurance and love of enterprise generated by the strain of Indian blood in their veins, with the civilization, the institutions, and the intellectual power derived from their fathers, have preached the gospel of peace and good- will and mutual respect, with equally beneficent results to the Indian chieftain in his lodge and the British settler in his shanty. They have been the ambassadors between the East and the West, the interpreters of civilization, with its exigencies, to the dwellers on the prairie, as well as the exponents to the white men of the consideration justly due to the susceptibilities, the sensitive self- respect, the prejudices, the innate sense of justice of the Indian race. In fact, they have done for the colony what would otherwise have been left unaccomplished, and have introduced between the white population and the red man a traditional feeling of amity and friendship which, but for them, it might have been impossible to establish. Nor can I pass by the humane, kindly and considerate attention which has distinguished the Hudson's Bay Company in its dealings with the native population. But though giving credit to these fortunate influences among the causes that are conducing to produce and preserve the happy result, the place of honour must be adjudged to that honourable and generous policy which has been preserved by successive Governments of Canada toward the Indian, which at this moment is being superintended and carried out by your present Lieutenant- |
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