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ful province in Canada. (Laughter) They were the only two lady delegates at that conference to come to Prince Edward Island.

We were divided into four groups; one came down here to the Island. Eighteen. Those people when they left the Island, they talked about Prince Edward Island for days after. I said to some of them, “What was there in Prince Edward Island that attracted you so much ?" The friendliness of the people, the beautiful countryside. We took them up to Summerside and had a wonderful day. They were very tired when they got back because they were on the go every day. Different ones before they were picked up at the hotel went out on the street for a walk around and said they just stopped and talked to anyone and that was the reaction of those people we got from Prince Edward Island. I was very proud indeed and I played my part on every occasion to uphold good old Prince Edward Island. (Applause)

I have been across Canada three times, once by plane, car and train. Now this trip by plane was pretty quick, pretty fast and we didn’t touch everywhere. Out in Alberta we were taken around more than in any other province. It was amazing for those people to see not only what we have here in Canada besides. To give you an idea there was a delegation there from India. India is roughly the size of Quebec with 450,000,000 people and Quebec just has between five and six million people. What a contrast! Just imagine! The Honourable Premier mentioned this afternoon about water conservation. Out in Alberta there is what is called the St. Mary’s Dam: they have a wonderful dam built there of concrete and it flows down three hundred and ten miles — right down past Lethbridge into Medicine Hat. It irrigates a little over five hundred thousand acres, and the way it is worked is a trench about eight feet wide and the water goes down there. If they want to irrigate they have a pump to pump it up over the bank. One field of sugar beets we saw — I would say about twenty to thirty acres in the field — a beautiful sight to see perfectly level and the water came along and it was cut off and some of it would run down the side of the field and across the end, the lower, and it would flow back between each drill. My that was a beautiful sight to see! Perhaps I should mention this now, I saw it in 1965 and my reason for doing so it was in the Guardian I think yesterday, or the day before. Up in Fort McMurray which is 300 miles north of Edmonton, five hundred miles from the Arctic Circle there you will find tar sands. I found this so interest- ing I brought two samples along with me. Pass one to each side of the House. Those are the samples of what was mentioned in the Guardian the day before yesterday, the tar sands. Now that covers twenty thousand, seven hundred square miles, and it goes down two hundred feet deep and all over the ground — some places it is right to the top of the ground — and it is pretty sticky when you walk over it. They are building a building there now with this article sixty-five. When we were there they were laying the foundation and it is costing $235,000,000, and what a wonderful piece of engineering I suppose that will be. The reason those tar sands haven't been touched down through the years is because it was too costly to process. So now on the completion of the new factory they are going to extract it by steam and hot water. That is how they are going to do it and there is enough rough tar there to do Canada for the next eight hundred years, so I don’t think we need worry over tar.

Then they took us on this trip to a sulphur plant. They make sulphur out of gas and there was a huge block of sulphur there and they estimated it to be about three hundred thousand long tons of sulphur and that is chiefly used in steel indus- try and they import that. Perhaps in passing — this is down in the United States ~— Arizona, on the border between Arizona and Nevada. Speaking of water conserva- tion, what a piece of engineering took place down there between 1930 and 1935. In 1908 there was a flood went down and destroyed a great deal of farm land, live- stock, even homes so they decided that something must be done so they built a dam that is twelve hundred and forty-four feet long, seven hundred and twenty-six feet high, six hundred and sixty feet wide at the base, and forty feet wide at the top with a cement top. It is built on the Colorado River. A 1,400 mile river and no water goes over or under that dam. There are two pipes leading the water into seventeen turbines which produce one million three hundred and eighty-four thousand kilowatts, whatever that means. (Laughter) It is a wonderful feat of engineering. Since then they haven't had a flood and they irrigate in the dry spells and they rely on it every year — at a certain time every year — it irrigates one and one-quarter million acres. Just imagine! One and one-quarter million acres and that dam will back up

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