The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... difficulties and needs , the passions , prejudices and peculiarities of the farming population which forms the political back- bone of the country . For the special work lying before him , this training perhaps meant as much as any that ...
... difficulties and needs , the passions , prejudices and peculiarities of the farming population which forms the political back- bone of the country . For the special work lying before him , this training perhaps meant as much as any that ...
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... difficulty seemed well - nigh insuperable . The conflict which which followed evoked evoked the greatest bitterness of party feeling , and put a severe strain upon the whole system of govern- ment . The governor - general's first ...
... difficulty seemed well - nigh insuperable . The conflict which which followed evoked evoked the greatest bitterness of party feeling , and put a severe strain upon the whole system of govern- ment . The governor - general's first ...
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... difficulty in carrying his measure . In 1850 the prosperity of the country , which had been greatly checked by the loss of a prefer- ence in British markets consequent on the adoption RAILWAYS AND RECIPROCITY of a free trade policy ...
... difficulty in carrying his measure . In 1850 the prosperity of the country , which had been greatly checked by the loss of a prefer- ence in British markets consequent on the adoption RAILWAYS AND RECIPROCITY of a free trade policy ...
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... difficulties of the government increased daily . Two important sections of their followers split off . The breath of the revolution of 1848 had blown upon Lower Canada , and a band of brilliant young men , led by Antoine Dorion ...
... difficulties of the government increased daily . Two important sections of their followers split off . The breath of the revolution of 1848 had blown upon Lower Canada , and a band of brilliant young men , led by Antoine Dorion ...
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... difficulties they struggled on till September , 1854 , when they were defeated on a technicality and resigned . The real cause of their downfall was the question , at once religious and political , of the Clergy Reserves . The history ...
... difficulties they struggled on till September , 1854 , when they were defeated on a technicality and resigned . The real cause of their downfall was the question , at once religious and political , of the Clergy Reserves . The history ...
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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,...