The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... position in the Commercial Bank . Here his health began to fail and he died five years later , in 1841 , at the age of fifty - nine . Though evidently unstable in purpose and un- equal to the rough work of a new country , Mr. Macdonald ...
... position in the Commercial Bank . Here his health began to fail and he died five years later , in 1841 , at the age of fifty - nine . Though evidently unstable in purpose and un- equal to the rough work of a new country , Mr. Macdonald ...
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... position he is said to have displayed good business ability and to have made himself popular . But larger fields of public employment were about to open before him . Meanwhile , his increasing prosperity had enabled him to assume the ...
... position he is said to have displayed good business ability and to have made himself popular . But larger fields of public employment were about to open before him . Meanwhile , his increasing prosperity had enabled him to assume the ...
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... position . The Union Act of 1840 provided that all the proceedings of the legislature should be printed in the English language only . This was felt to be a hardship by Lower Canadians , few of whom knew any language but French . In ...
... position . The Union Act of 1840 provided that all the proceedings of the legislature should be printed in the English language only . This was felt to be a hardship by Lower Canadians , few of whom knew any language but French . In ...
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... position for himself by assiduous attention to the ordinary duties of a member , may well be recommended to young members fresh from the excitement of the hust- ings , and inclined to attach an exaggerated value to their own ...
... position for himself by assiduous attention to the ordinary duties of a member , may well be recommended to young members fresh from the excitement of the hust- ings , and inclined to attach an exaggerated value to their own ...
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... new governor may hear " from others than executive councillors the state of parties , " and expressing complete confidence in his " judgment and dis- FIRST CABINET POSITION cretion . " It is extremely significant 26 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.
... new governor may hear " from others than executive councillors the state of parties , " and expressing complete confidence in his " judgment and dis- FIRST CABINET POSITION cretion . " It is extremely significant 26 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.
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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,...