You can read an excerpt from his address below.

“I am very happy to be among you today. I am among people who have behind them a long historical tradition, for it was your race which for centuries held the south-eastern gate of Europe against the attacks of the East. I can well imagine that this country is home to you, for these wide prairies are very like the great plains of south-eastern Europe from which you came. During my tour of the prairie I have come across many of your people, and I am glad to see that in short time you have come to be a vital element in Canadian nation. You have played your part in the Great War. Today I find your sons in the permanent and non-permanent militia. Wherever I go I hear praise of your industry and hardihood [daring] and enterprise, even under the most difficult conditions. You have become good Canadians. Every Briton and especially every Scotsman must believe that the strongest nations are those that are made up of different racial elements. The Ukrainian element is a very valuable contribution to our new Canada. I wish to say one thing to you. You have accepted the duties and loyalties as you have acquired the privileges of Canadian citizens but I want you also to remember your old Ukrainian traditions—your beautiful handicrafts, your folksongs and dances and your folk legends. I do not believe that any people can be strong unless they remember and keep in touch with all their past. Your traditions are all valuable contributions towards our Canadian culture which cannot be a copy of any one old thing—it must be a new thing created by the contributions of all the elements that make up the nation.”