Strathcona Horse, Speech by Nicholas Flood Davin

Excerpt from Strathcona Horse, Speech by Nicholas Flood Davin: Lansdowne Park, March 7th, 1900 A. D. On the Occasion of the First Parade of the Strathcona Horse, When a Flag From the Town of Sudbury Was Presented by Her Excellency the Countess of Minto From all parts of the north-west Territories you come - from the wide plains of Assinaboia, from the ranges of Alberta and Maple Creek, from the Peace River and the Yukon; from desk, mart mine and farm; from the school, from the pro fessions; scions of nobility, the sons of wealthy men, sons of Canadian governors and statesmen, sons of the plough, sons of the shop - all leaving comfort, some opulence, and the greatest opportunities of peace; unasked you go, as spontaneously as tho e who have gone before you. You will leave on Monday what is just now a land of snow bracing, beautiful, exhilarating; you will cross the equator for a land of fierce suns, beautiful, too, but trying compared with our stimu lating clime - and your desire is that valour might be able to arm itself with wings, the only fear you know is that you may not be in time. 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.