 | Edmund Burke - History - 1878 - 650 pages
...of the Dominion, and specially traced the progress of the State of Manitoba, which, he said, might be regarded as the keystone of that mighty arch of...from the Atlantic to the Pacific. " It was here," he said, " that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her rolling prairies... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1878 - 480 pages
...pole occasionally moves towards Hudson Bay. Speaking at Winnepeg some time ago Lord Dufferin said, " Manitoba may be regarded as the keystone of that mighty...as by an unexpected revelation that her historical territories of the Canadas, her eastern seaboards of New Brunswick, Labrador, and Nova Scotia, her... | |
 | Canada. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 74 pages
...with which your Province has been so richly endowed by the hands of Providence. From its geographical position, and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba...spans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (Great applause.) It was here that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her... | |
 | William Leggo - Canada - 1878 - 946 pages
...with which your Province has been so richly endowed by the hands of Providence. From its geographical position, and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba...spans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (Great applause.) It was here that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her... | |
 | George Stewart - 1878 - 704 pages
...with which your Province has been so richly endowed by the hands of Providence. From its geographical position, and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba...spans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (Great applause.) It was here that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her... | |
 | History - 1878 - 676 pages
...of the Dominion, and specially traced the progress of the State of Manitoba, which, he said, might be regarded as the keystone of that mighty arch of...from the Atlantic to the Pacific. " It was here," he said, " that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her rolling prairies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1878 - 706 pages
...of the Dominion, and specially traced the progress of the State of Manitoba, which, he said, might be regarded as the keystone of that mighty arch of...from the Atlantic to the Pacific. " It was here," he said, " that Canada, emerging from her woods and forests, first gazed upon her rolling prairies... | |
 | Edward Hepple Hall - Canada - 1879 - 264 pages
...confederation. As was well remarked by Lord Dufferin, the late Governor- General, in a recent eloquent speech, " Manitoba may be regarded as the key-stone of that mighty arch of sister provinces which span the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was here Canada received the afflatus of a... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1880 - 994 pages
...geographical positions and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba may be regarded as the keystone cf that mighty arch of sister Provinces, which spans...her rolling prairies and unexplored North-West, and learned as by an unexpected revelation that her historical territories of the Canadas ; her eastern... | |
 | John Macoun, George Monro Grant, Alexander Begg, John Campbell McLagan - Frontier and pioneer life - 1882 - 736 pages
...country, and the facts he had gathered, from which the following are extracts : " From ite geographical position, and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba...as by an unexpected revelation that her historical territories of the Canadas, her eastern seaboards of New Brunswick. Labrador, and Nova Scotia, her... | |
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From its geographical position and its peculiar characteristics, Manitoba may be regarded as the keystone of that mighty arch of sister provinces which spans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
