By: counterweights editors

counterweights editors — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:34:14 +0000

Absolutely rossubsli. Check out Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years, Laurentian Library edition, Macmillan of Canada: Toronto, 1977, p. 57. We don’t say anything on this website that we’re not sure is true — at least not without saying that we’re not sure! And Canada, as best we can make out, has considerably more of a “republican” tradition than many present-day monarchists think, or at least like to pretend.

By: rossubsli

rossubsli — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:45:34 +0000

“It is just not in their DNA, etc, etc. Yet right after we received Dr. White’s latest posting, his sometime acquaintance L. Frank Bunting also sent us a short note. He has apparently been reading (at last) the Second World Wartime diary of the late Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie — bequeathed from the rationalized library of an aging Metis colleague. And Dr. Bunting points out this entry for London, England, 17June 1940 (just in the midst of the fall of France): “Mike Pearson says, ‘If this country [ie the UK, where both Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Pearson were posted at the time] makes peace I hope Canada will become a republic and that would be the end of this business of our duty to the Empire.” (The same Mike Pearson, in case you’ve forgotten, was also the later prime minister, who finally gave Canada its own independent maple leaf flag, on February 15, 1965.”
Are you sure that this is true?

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