University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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IQ67. lit-gzili with the crash of symbols. On Coast and plain, from prairie town to luminous eastern City, in a rust, nnilti-mlourt-cl rainbow of pageantry, the old and ilu- new nivrgt- togetlier in an ebullient, year-long, tlzingirlizui springtime, rliiinecl in by the whistles, bells, niaplf' lc-aws, wlu-at slit-gives, Centennial projects by tlu- lol ttg lin--balls, lFI't't'-itll'-2lllS,ZLSHHQI12lIUCClcll1l'lZ1dll, A si. Hill, log-birling, rope-twirling neon lights, a thousand and seven sights at Expo, Viet Nam, art nouveau, Marshall MeLuhan, a northern tribal world, poetry, Einily Carr, CBC, a million Canadian visions, sunsets, quintets, Mounties, unions, Volvos, Jaycees, wealth by the billion, unification, expropriation, diversilieation, eybernation, and Confederation. laslt-r, llvlltvr, flags, flings and funies at Parliament Across the eountry, millions file through the ears of the 1

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'CI looked at my companion with some curiosity. He was tall and rehned - a man of middle age with a lean, well-bred face and hair slightly grizzled at the temples. His tanned, clean-shaven face spoke of a life spent largely out of doors: his well-fitting dinner jacket, his general air of prosperity and refinement made me think he was not only a rich man, but one who had been born so. He was an excellent talker, well-travelled and well-read - a man of considerable charm. And yet, there was something Vic College Annual, 1923

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Centennial train to receive an electronic, twenty-minute impression of Canada, and, in Victoria, two roller skaters, one with his family, depart for a cross-Canada skate. The Canadian armed forces, tattoo, with all the military splendor of two centuries, puts on a huge show at the Centennial stadium, and, as a gesture to the mainland, Premier Bennett packs up the seats of Legislature and moves them to New Westminster for the opening of the 28th session of the Provincial government. All these things remind us that Canada is no longer four nervous provinces hugging the northeastern part of this continent, but a nation of wealth and promise, of problems and politics, of Ioo years of maturity. And so Canadians have something to celebrate.