Foreword By REV. DR. SALEM GOLDWORTH BLAND THE most glorious figure in Canadian history is that of the young nobleman Danlac des Ormeaux, who when the infant settlement of Ville Marie was in danger of being wiped out by a warparty of Iroquois, inspired a gallant band of young Frenchmen with a handful of Indian allies, not to await the attack but to go up the river Ottawa, down which the invaders must come and "shatter the wave" before it broke on the little settlement. So des- perate a fight did they put up that though they perished to a man the discouraged Iroquois turned back. I find the spirit of Danlac des Ormeaux in the Cana- dians who, recognizing that the most formidable enemy to liberty and democracy everywhere in the world today is the spirit of Fascism, determined not to await its onset here in Canada but crossed the Atlantic to meet it and discomfort it in Spain. These Canadian boys, some of them with familiar English, Scotch, Irish and French names and some with names less familiar, but now made forever glorious in Canadian history have, shamed us who let them steal out of their native land as if bent on some criminal enter- prise. But it was for Canada they crossed the sea and dared and suffered and (some of them) died. The writer of this graphic and informing narrative of the war in