The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... Brown . The latter had gradu- ally come to be regarded as Macdonald's great antagonist in the public life of Canada . His figure is one of the largest in Canadian history . In Cana- dian politics his influence was for a long time only ...
... Brown . The latter had gradu- ally come to be regarded as Macdonald's great antagonist in the public life of Canada . His figure is one of the largest in Canadian history . In Cana- dian politics his influence was for a long time only ...
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... Brown long wielded in Upper Canada was won primarily as a journalist . Later he became a force in the legislature , though his parliamentary career was somewhat broken and erratic , partly through electoral defeats , partly through the ...
... Brown long wielded in Upper Canada was won primarily as a journalist . Later he became a force in the legislature , though his parliamentary career was somewhat broken and erratic , partly through electoral defeats , partly through the ...
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GEORGE BROWN of privilege and the untiring advocate of reform his record is unique in Canadian politics . He was deficient , however , in some of the qualities essential to a great leader of men . The art of popular government has ever ...
GEORGE BROWN of privilege and the untiring advocate of reform his record is unique in Canadian politics . He was deficient , however , in some of the qualities essential to a great leader of men . The art of popular government has ever ...
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... Brown's opposi- tion . But as the reforming energy of the Liberal administration abated , Brown's impatience with his old friends gradually became more pronounced , and soon he was not merely opposing the Liberal leaders more vehemently ...
... Brown's opposi- tion . But as the reforming energy of the Liberal administration abated , Brown's impatience with his old friends gradually became more pronounced , and soon he was not merely opposing the Liberal leaders more vehemently ...
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... Brown had made it practically impossible for any French - Canadian party to work with him , or for French members to support him without endanger- ing their own seats in parliament . Thus it was that when , largely through his un ...
... Brown had made it practically impossible for any French - Canadian party to work with him , or for French members to support him without endanger- ing their own seats in parliament . Thus it was that when , largely through his un ...
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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,...