Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Practical Internationalism

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A working example of internationalism was highlighted last week when the citizens of St. Stephen, N.B. and Calais, Me.

staged their V-E celebration together.

With U.S. and Canadian soldiers, Legionnaires, policemen and firemen marching side by side, the two mayors led a parade which crossed and recrossed the border.

The two towns have been practicing internationalism for more than 100 years.

One day during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing.

"God," he said, "must have work for that man to do." After the war, McColl became a parson.

He built a church at St. Stephen, just across the narrow St. Croix River from Calais. His congregation included people from both sides of the border. When the War of 1812 broke out, he called a meet ing of Americans and Canadians. "I've christened you and married you and buried you," he told them. "We've been like one family and, by God, I'm not