The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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Արդյունքներ 72–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... Family Compact was the safe- guard of British connection or a selfish com- bination working chiefly for personal ends , was a question fiercely debated on every hustings and at well - nigh every fireside . In Quebec 13.
... Family Compact was the safe- guard of British connection or a selfish com- bination working chiefly for personal ends , was a question fiercely debated on every hustings and at well - nigh every fireside . In Quebec 13.
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and at well - nigh every fireside . In Quebec , seigniorial tenure , a heritage from the feudal past , awaited some solution which would set the habitant free to enjoy the full fruits of his labour , while not inflicting an injustice on ...
and at well - nigh every fireside . In Quebec , seigniorial tenure , a heritage from the feudal past , awaited some solution which would set the habitant free to enjoy the full fruits of his labour , while not inflicting an injustice on ...
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... Quebec and a smaller but sufficient major- ity from Upper Canada . With Mr. LaFontaine as leader from the Lower Province and Mr. Bald- win from the Upper , an administration was formed which continued in office for more than three years ...
... Quebec and a smaller but sufficient major- ity from Upper Canada . With Mr. LaFontaine as leader from the Lower Province and Mr. Bald- win from the Upper , an administration was formed which continued in office for more than three years ...
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... Quebec and Toronto prevailed , but so keen was the struggle between these two centres that it was found necessary to divide the honour , and for six- teen years the sessions of parliament shifted at intervals of four years from one to ...
... Quebec and Toronto prevailed , but so keen was the struggle between these two centres that it was found necessary to divide the honour , and for six- teen years the sessions of parliament shifted at intervals of four years from one to ...
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... Quebec ; on the other , even the modified alliance which was maintained handicapped still more seriously Dorion and his followers , by enabling the clericals to accuse them of hostility not only to their religion but to the liberties ...
... Quebec ; on the other , even the modified alliance which was maintained handicapped still more seriously Dorion and his followers , by enabling the clericals to accuse them of hostility not only to their religion but to the liberties ...
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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,...