Thursday, May 18, 1067 Honourable M. Lome Bonaell : Mr. Speaker , since we are starting nice and fresh in the early morning* probably we are fresh enough that I could read my docu¬ ment. (Laughter). Honourable M. Lome Bonaell : I hope that you dont get too tired because I dont propose to speak for orer an hour. Walter R. Shaw : Did Sigswortb write that speech for you? Honourable M. Lome Bonnell : No this speech came from Ontario . And what 1 want to do Mr. Speaker , with the speech is to read this passage called "The Golden Leaves from Canada 's Past." It is a collection of the first pages of Canadian news¬ papers over the past hundred years. The first headline is for July first, 1867, the report of the Confederation of that day from the London Free Press, and it goes on over the years covering the happenings of the day. One of the important headlines is 1901 when Queen Victoria died: one of the other big headlines to when the Par¬ liament Buildings were destroyed in Ottawa. I would like to leave this paper for the perusal of any of the members that would like to see it We have on the very back page a picture of Sir John A. Macdonald .... Some Members: Good old John . Honourable M. Lome Bonaell : And a draft, his working copy, a photostatic copy, of the British Act which Sir John A . used personally. Hoaonrable Alexander B. Campbell : Is David MacDonald 's name there? Honourable M. Lome Bonnell : And there is no David MacDonald . Some Members: There will be Honourable M. Lome Bonnell : It is interesting to note on the working copy that Sir John A . struck out certain words to suit himself; originally the British Act started, "Whereas the union of the British colonies, for purposes of government and legislation, will be attended with great benefit to the Colonies and be conducive to the interests of the United Kingdom" etc., etc. Sir John A . changed that; Sir John A . struck out the word "whereas the union" and put in the word with his own hand "whereas such union" and when he came down to the part of the " British Colonies for purposes of gov¬ ernment and legislation" he struck out those words so that the draft which went through the House stated, "Whereas the union of the British Col¬ onies would be attended with great benefit to the Colonies." In other words for pur¬ poses of government legislation he checked off the different little parts. And he had a little amendment up on the top which read as follows; "If I bad any influence over the minds of the people of Canada , any power over their intellect, I would leave them this legacy. Whatever you do adhere to the union; we are a great country and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve ft. We shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken." (Applause). These books by the way I think can be made available to any member of the government or Opposition by writing to the Mayor of the Borough of Etobicoke, I guess it is, just outside of Toronto . This is a Centennial project of the people of that Henry W. Wedge : That is something similar to the project we are trying on the Island here. Honourable M. Lome Bonnell : We? Who to the "we"? Those three people. Now also, Mr. Speaker .... Henry W. Wedge : Does it describe the 1967 Ministers ? Honourable M. Lome Bonnell : The hut page to a headline of 1967 announcing the death of Governor - General Vanier . That to the headline of the paper of the mat year. It is also interesting to note that in the middle of the book there are head¬ lines, just parts of headlines of many papers across this country of different ages, 1867 right up to 1967, and including one from the Prutlnce of Quebec where BUT 18 was being fought by the teachers. There to a headline from the Journal-Pioneer"