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Rudyard Kipling 1910
From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo
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Rudyard Kipling 1910
"Believe me, the very name is an asset, and as years go on will become more and more of an asset. It has no duplicate in the world; it makes men ask questions."
A group of businessmen led the movement to change the name of their town from Medicine Hat to Progress. The movement was derailed by other Albertans, who wrote to Rudyard Kipling, addressing him as the "Father Confessor of the Empire" and asking him to lead the retentionist cause. Kipling recalled his happy visit to Medicine Hat in 1892, and he rallied to the cause, ...
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