INTRODUCTORY

These are the days of Good Will Pilgrimages, when groups of people journey to various parts of the world, with the avowed purpose of becoming better acquainted with people and conditions in the points visited, to the end that a better understanding may be established and a real spirit of good will cultivated. Such was the trip organized and conducted in June—July, 1:929, under the name of the New Outlook Maritime Special, and of which approximately one hundred and eighty-five tourists from various parts of Canada and the United States took advantage.

We have yet to find one of the number who failed to enjoy the pilgrimage, and all would be glad to live over again those delightful days. But inevitably the scenes will fade from our memory, and I feel that we owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Kennedy for her thought in writing the story and putting it into book form, that we may preserve the record of those twenty days. With her keen perception she has seen things that may have escaped the eye of some of us or that may already have become only a dim recol— lection, but the whole story is much enhanced by the telling. And to those who have not had the privilege of visiting the beautiful Maritimes with their wonderfully hospitable people and their wealth of historic scenes, we recommend this little volume.

Louise C. M cKinney.

Claresholm, Alta., Nov. 4th, 1929.