The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... given to me in the preparation of Chapters V , VI and VII , by Mr. W. L. Grant , Beit Lecturer in Col- onial History in the University of Oxford ; assis- tance which he was specially qualified to give through his own studies of ...
... given to me in the preparation of Chapters V , VI and VII , by Mr. W. L. Grant , Beit Lecturer in Col- onial History in the University of Oxford ; assis- tance which he was specially qualified to give through his own studies of ...
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... given steady support to Sir Charles Metcalfe through the stormy period of his rule , proves that the political arguments of the day were not all on one side , as certain writers have been disposed to represent them . Mr. Henry Sherwood ...
... given steady support to Sir Charles Metcalfe through the stormy period of his rule , proves that the political arguments of the day were not all on one side , as certain writers have been disposed to represent them . Mr. Henry Sherwood ...
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... given to their opponents to hold out the hope of compensa- tion as a lure to the French voters of Lower Can- ada greatly contributed to the success of the Re- form party in 1848. The new ministry was bound to realize the expectation of ...
... given to their opponents to hold out the hope of compensa- tion as a lure to the French voters of Lower Can- ada greatly contributed to the success of the Re- form party in 1848. The new ministry was bound to realize the expectation of ...
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... given to Brown's followers . Sir Allan Mac- Nab , the leader of the Conservative opposition , was called upon to form an administration . It was a difficult position in which he found himself placed . The election had made plain the ...
... given to Brown's followers . Sir Allan Mac- Nab , the leader of the Conservative opposition , was called upon to form an administration . It was a difficult position in which he found himself placed . The election had made plain the ...
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... given to politics , and hence it was all the more easy for Macdonald , who held the 1 The MacNab - Taché ministry was constituted as follows : The Hon . Sir A. N. MacNab , president of the council and minister of agriculture ( first ...
... given to politics , and hence it was all the more easy for Macdonald , who held the 1 The MacNab - Taché ministry was constituted as follows : The Hon . Sir A. N. MacNab , president of the council and minister of agriculture ( first ...
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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,...