The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... America possible . Rightly under- stood this period was as critical for the empire as it was for the colony itself . No one can doubt that the whole future development of the imperial system is destined to be profoundly affected by the ...
... America possible . Rightly under- stood this period was as critical for the empire as it was for the colony itself . No one can doubt that the whole future development of the imperial system is destined to be profoundly affected by the ...
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... American border for those who had taken up arms against the government . This sympathy quickly took the form of active assistance . In November of the year following a party of Ameri- cans crossed the border at a point a little below ...
... American border for those who had taken up arms against the government . This sympathy quickly took the form of active assistance . In November of the year following a party of Ameri- cans crossed the border at a point a little below ...
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... Americans who had wantonly invaded the country . The years which immediately followed were marked only by hard work and increasing pros- perity . In 1839 he became solicitor for the Com- mercial Bank , and soon after for a large Trust ...
... Americans who had wantonly invaded the country . The years which immediately followed were marked only by hard work and increasing pros- perity . In 1839 he became solicitor for the Com- mercial Bank , and soon after for a large Trust ...
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... America still consisted of a disjointed series of provinces ; those on the Atlantic coast separated from old Canada by hundreds of miles of unbroken forests ; the settlements of the Pacific still more effectually cut off from the cen ...
... America still consisted of a disjointed series of provinces ; those on the Atlantic coast separated from old Canada by hundreds of miles of unbroken forests ; the settlements of the Pacific still more effectually cut off from the cen ...
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... American revolution , from which they or their fathers had suffered so much , rankled in the hearts of the United Empire Loyal- ists , and they dreaded , more than anything else , a repetition in their new country of what had taken ...
... American revolution , from which they or their fathers had suffered so much , rankled in the hearts of the United Empire Loyal- ists , and they dreaded , more than anything else , a repetition in their new country of what had taken ...
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Էջ 311 - As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die.
Էջ 179 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Էջ 253 - When the British North America Act enacted that there should be a legislature for Ontario, and that its legislative assembly should have exclusive authority to make laws for the Province and for provincial purposes in relation to the matters enumerated in sect.
Էջ 179 - From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing Treaties and Conventions between Great Britain and the United States terminates...
Էջ 118 - The best interests and present and future prosperity of British North America will be promoted by a Federal Union under the Crown of Great Britain, provided such Union can be effected .on principles just to the several Provinces.
Էջ 49 - Should it prove to be so, concession to their views must, sooner or later, become inevitable, since it cannot be too distinctly acknowledged that it is neither possible nor desirable to carry on the government of any of the British provinces in North America in opposition to the opinion of the inhabitants.
Էջ 225 - Chair, but that this House is of the opinion that the welfare of Canada requires the adoption of a National Policy, which, by a judicious readjustment of the Tariff, will benefit and foster the agricultural, the mining, the manufacturing, and other interests of the Dominion...
Էջ 168 - the mode of settling the different questions which have arisen out of the fisheries. as well as all those which affect the relations of the United States towards Her Majesty's possessions in North America...
Էջ 202 - ... for the construction of the Railway; that accordingly Sir Hugh Allan did advance a large sum of money for the purpose mentioned, and at the solicitation, and under the pressing instances of...
Էջ 103 - ... higher position in the eyes of Europe — with the increased security we can offer to immigrants, who would naturally prefer to seek a new home in what is known to them as a great country, than in any one little colony or another — with all this I am satisfied that, great as has been our increase in the last twenty-five years since the union between Upper and Lower Canada, our future progress, during the next quarter of a century, will be vastly greater. And when, by means of this rapid increase,...