The Makers of Canada, Հատոր 18Morang & Company, Limited, 1908 |
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... RAILWAY AND THE NORTH- WEST • 231 CHAPTER XII PROVINCIAL RIGHTS 245 CHAPTER XIII A LONG LEASE OF POWER , 1878 to 1891 261 CHAPTER XIV THE LAST ELECTION - COMMERCIAL UNION— UNRESTRICTED RECIPROCITY , 1891 • CHAPTER XV CLOSING DAYS ...
... RAILWAY AND THE NORTH- WEST • 231 CHAPTER XII PROVINCIAL RIGHTS 245 CHAPTER XIII A LONG LEASE OF POWER , 1878 to 1891 261 CHAPTER XIV THE LAST ELECTION - COMMERCIAL UNION— UNRESTRICTED RECIPROCITY , 1891 • CHAPTER XV CLOSING DAYS ...
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... . 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 , began 44 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.
... . 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 , began 44 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD.
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RAILWAYS AND RECIPROCITY of a free trade policy , began to revive . It was an era of railway building , and in this work the government assisted not without energy . In 1849 the negotiations had been begun which , after many years and ...
RAILWAYS AND RECIPROCITY of a free trade policy , began to revive . It was an era of railway building , and in this work the government assisted not without energy . In 1849 the negotiations had been begun which , after many years and ...
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... railway construction which was becoming necessary . The Liberal government was therefore reorganized towards the close of the year 1851 , under Mr. ( afterwards Sir Francis ) Hincks , an able and eminently practical financier , and Mr ...
... railway construction which was becoming necessary . The Liberal government was therefore reorganized towards the close of the year 1851 , under Mr. ( afterwards Sir Francis ) Hincks , an able and eminently practical financier , and Mr ...
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... railway con- struction , probably the most important before the House during these years , remained in the realm of commerce , and did not rise to that vital connec- tion with the national ideal and the national aspiration reached in ...
... railway con- struction , probably the most important before the House during these years , remained in the realm of commerce , and did not rise to that vital connec- tion with the national ideal and the national aspiration reached in ...
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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,...