The daily progressive-miner., 1916-02-21
ENCLEND MAY WELL
 BE PROUD OF THEM
CANADA'S FRONTIERSMEN MADE THE BEST SOLDIERS
 ON THE FRONT

PerhapS as never before mas the old saying "That great things from small beginnings rise" been so full ly emphasized as in the case of the Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen, the only fighting body of men that were really ready when Can ada offered its services to the mo- ther country in the European war
 Twelve years ago away up at the lonely little mounted police post of Lac St. Anne, in northern Alberta far from a railroad line, Roger Pocock, an officer of this famous body of riders of the plains, conceived a great plan body of men composed of all dar- ing spirits throughout the wide domains of the British Empire. Everywhere in the budding colonies of Great Britain were daring souls cowboys, ex-mounted policemen, men of the cape mounted rifles, old army and navy men, and a thous- and other kindred spirits. What a wonderful power for defense or in- vasion these men could be made
 into If united! thought Pocock.A- flame with his plan he resigned from the command to form an or ganization of his dreams which is today known as "The Canadian Le- zion of Frontiersmen," though it has members all over the other CO., lonies of Great Britain.
 Men who had seen active service in any land. cowboys of the genui- ne kind with experience on the plains and ability to ride like cen taurs, and men of the army and navy who had served at least three years were those chiefly accepted in the Legion. In addition to this. however, men capable of acting as transport riders, telegraph opera tors, motorists, sappers, engineers and miners, and few typists and men of trades who would prove an aid to a fighting body on active service, were also enrolled. But the Legion was no corps of easy entrance. To be admitted, man had to have goods and thousands of applications have been turned down In twelve years of the organizati- on's existence.
 Like almost any plan of it's kind. the founder had no easy road. Men Tn high places sneered at the idea. Called it impracticable. But Po- cock persisted and after severn, years of endeavor received the san ction of the English army office In fact his plan was viewed with much high favor that famous men formed themselves into an assist ing Council.
 When the war broke out tbara were 9s,00O men enrolled in Canada alone. Owing to the war office at first not accepting any separate individual units the offer of this troop in a body could not be accent ed but the men quickly attached themselves to various battalions. mat these Were wonderful fighters IS now evident, for in the Princess patrlcias alone were three hundred 1rontiersmen, and who is there to- nay that has not read with fast beating heart of the record of this heroic little band of men only a lew hundred of whom today remain alive out of an original band of some two thousand men?
 So, this idea, originated away up in the lonely bare stretches of the Canadian north by a simple mounted policeman, is today show ing that stuff Of dreams occas;an- ally lives and blossoms into great things. as
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