 | Thomas Rawlings - Canada - 1865 - 278 pages
...effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary-line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great...eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west. " The settler, who will always adopt the shortest and least expensive route, will undoubtedly follow the... | |
 | George Monro Grant - Canada - 1873 - 542 pages
...effecting such an object; and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great...eligible access from the Pacific Coast on the west." The best answer to this sweeping opinion, is the "Progress Report" on the Canadian Pacific Railway exploratory... | |
 | Alexander Monro - Canada - 1879 - 218 pages
...effecting such an object; and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the central American possessions of Great Britain from Canada in the cast, and also almost debarred them from any eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west." However,... | |
 | John Macoun - Canada Emigration and immigration - 1883 - 716 pages
...effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great...interior, united with British Columbia, and as a part of tho contract agreed to build a railroad through the mountain barrier declared by Palliser impassable.... | |
 | Canada - 1888 - 692 pages
...completely isoiaUd the central American possessions of Great Britain from Canada in the cost, and also debarred them from any eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west." Notwithstanding this exceedingly discouraging declaration, the work has been grappled with, ard the... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1890 - 606 pages
...effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great...eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west." Ibid. p. 6. вес. II, 1889. 16. famed Fraser Hiver by the sea. The few who went overland from the... | |
 | Alexander Begg - Manitoba - 1894 - 624 pages
...effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the central American possessions of Great...eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west." CHAPTER XVI. A STRUGGLE FOR FREE TRADE. IN 1837, the Hudson's Bay Company, through the Governor in... | |
 | Alexander Begg - Manitoba - 1894 - 1240 pages
...unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the central American posseasions of Great Britain from Canada in the east, and also...eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west." CHAPTER XVI. A STRUGGLE FOR FREE TRADE. IN 18.37, the Hudson's Bay Company, through the Governor in... | |
 | Engineers Club of Philadelphia - Engineering - 1900 - 622 pages
...astronomic boundary-line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great Britian from Canada in the east, and also almost debarred...any eligible access from the Pacific coast on the west."f In the light of what has actually been accomplished, these remarks of Captain Palliser are... | |
 | Arthur Oliver Wheeler - British Columbia - 1905 - 714 pages
...effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomic boundary line has completely isolated the Central American possessions of Great Britain from Canada in the east, and almost debarred them from any eligible access from the Pacific Coast oti the west.' And yet it is not... | |
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... from Canada across the continent to the Pacific, exclusively through British territory. The time has now for ever gone by for effecting such an object, and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line has completely isolated the Central... 
