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Page 39 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks, and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the Countries, Coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds aforesaid...
Page 90 - For six weeks at a time, from the commencement of the emigrantN ship season, I have known the shores of the river along Quebec, for about a mile and a half, crowded with these unfortunate people, the places of those who might have moved off being; constantly supplied by fresh arrivals, and there being daily drafts of from 10 to 30 taken to the hospital with infectious disease.
Page 144 - ... to embrace a line of telegraph only, with the modest suggestion that the two Governments should guarantee the company a profit of not less than 4 per cent, on their expenditure ! A proposal so absurd could only have been made to be rejected, and it was rejected accordingly. The surplus capital of the reconstructed Company, which was called up for the avowed purpose of opening their territories to " European colonization, under a liberal and systematic scheme of land settlement," has never been...
Page 80 - For a long time this body of men, receiving at times accessions to its numbers, possessed almost all the highest public offices, by means of which, and of its influence in the Executive Council, it wielded all the powers of government : it maintained influence in the legislature by means of its predominance in the Legislative Council, and it disposed of the large number of petty posts which are in the patronage of the Government all over the province. Successive governors, as they came in their...
Page 230 - I employed agents to go amongst the principal people and talk it up. I then began to hold public meetings, and attended to them myself, making frequent speeches in French to them, showing them where their true interest lay. The scheme at once became popular, and I formed a committee to influence the members of the Legislature. This succeeded so well that, in a short time...
Page 231 - The friends of the Government will expect to be assisted with funds in the pending elections, and any amount which you or your Company shall advance for that purpose shall be recouped to you. A memorandum of immediate requirements is below : Very truly yours, (Signed) GEORGE E.
Page 230 - I went to the country through which the road would pass, and called on many of the inhabitants. I visited the priests, and made friends of them, and I employed agents to go amongst the principal people and talk it up.
Page 80 - The bench, the magistracy, the high offices of the episcopal church, and a great part of the legal profession, are tilled by the adherents of this party : by grant or purchase, they have acquired nearly the whole of the waste lands of the province ; they are allpowerful in the chartered banks, and, till lately, shared among themselves almost exclusively, all offices of trust and profit.
Page 6 - What does the most harm here is the traffic in wine and brandy. We preach against those who give these liquors to the savages ; and yet many reconcile their consciences to the permission of this thing. They go into the woods and carry drinks to the savages in order to get their furs for nothing when they are drunk. Immorality, theft and murder ensue. . . . We had not yet seen the French commit such crimes, and we can attribute the cause of them only to the pernicious traffic in brandy.
Page 155 - You can form no idea of the manner in which a colonial parliament transacts its business. I got them into comparative order and decency, by having measures brought forward by the government, and well and steadily worked through. But when they came to their own affairs, and, above all...