Had I been born on the banks of the Saskatchewan, I would myself have shouldered a musket to fight against the neglect of governments and the shameless greed of speculators.


addressing a meeting in the Champ de Mars, Montreal, 22 November 1885; O.D. Skelton Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1921)


Had I been born on the banks of the Saskatchewan, I would myself have shouldered a musket to fight against the neglect of governments and the...

Had I been born on the banks of the Saskatchewan, I would myself have shouldered a musket to fight against the neglect of governments and the...

Had I been born on the banks of the Saskatchewan, I would myself have shouldered a musket to fight against the neglect of governments and the...

Had I been born on the banks of the Saskatchewan, I would myself have shouldered a musket to fight against the neglect of governments and the...