The Confederation of the British North American Provinces: Their Past History and Future Prospects, Including Also British Columbia & Hudson's Bay Territory : with a Map, and Suggestions in Reference to the True and Only Practicable Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
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... Bay Company 54 85 CHAPTER IX . BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER'S ISLAND . The Rocky Mountains : their Extent , their Altitude , their Passes - British Columbia : Early Discovery , Boundary - line , Lakes , Rivers , & c .; Gold and the ...
... Bay Company 54 85 CHAPTER IX . BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER'S ISLAND . The Rocky Mountains : their Extent , their Altitude , their Passes - British Columbia : Early Discovery , Boundary - line , Lakes , Rivers , & c .; Gold and the ...
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... Island stretches over 1,365,400 square acres , and contains a population of 80,856 . Newfoundland , within its ocean ... Vancouver's Island together cover 295,000 square miles of territory , and contained a population , on the 10th of ...
... Island stretches over 1,365,400 square acres , and contains a population of 80,856 . Newfoundland , within its ocean ... Vancouver's Island together cover 295,000 square miles of territory , and contained a population , on the 10th of ...
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... Island exports over £ 300,000 annually , besides contributing a fleet of splendid clippers to the mercantile marine ... Vancouver's Island , British Columbia , for 1863 was 6,000,000 dollars . PROSPECTIVE WEALTH . When we consider the ...
... Island exports over £ 300,000 annually , besides contributing a fleet of splendid clippers to the mercantile marine ... Vancouver's Island , British Columbia , for 1863 was 6,000,000 dollars . PROSPECTIVE WEALTH . When we consider the ...
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... Vancouver's Island and Oregon Amount expended up to 16th September , 1856 , in sending miners and labourers to Vancouver's Island , in the coal - mines , and other objects of colonization , exclu- sive of the trading establishments of ...
... Vancouver's Island and Oregon Amount expended up to 16th September , 1856 , in sending miners and labourers to Vancouver's Island , in the coal - mines , and other objects of colonization , exclu- sive of the trading establishments of ...
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... Vancouver's Island which are in direct possession of the British Government . THE COMPANY'S LANDS IN THE MARKET . Let us take away the whole of the 17,000,000 acres of avail- able land ; the fur trade would suffer but very little ...
... Vancouver's Island which are in direct possession of the British Government . THE COMPANY'S LANDS IN THE MARKET . Let us take away the whole of the 17,000,000 acres of avail- able land ; the fur trade would suffer but very little ...
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Page 11 - This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 85 - 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, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of...
Page 6 - The chief cause which made the fusion of the different elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place.
Page 129 - I should answer, I should tell you, " From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands, Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
Page 67 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time: Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Anne's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past.
Page 6 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 143 - ... seacoasts and shores of the United States and of the said islands, without being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land upon the said coasts of the United States...
Page 233 - St. Paul and St. Anthony, to a point between the foot of Big Stone Lake and the mouth of Sioux Wood River, with a branch, via St. Cloud and Crow Wing, to the navigable waters of the Red River of the North, at such point as the Legislature of said territory may determine ; from St.
Page 143 - States and of the said islands, without being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land upon the said coasts of the United States and of the islands aforesaid, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Page 205 - The executive authority or government shall be vested in the Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and be administered according to the well-understood principles of the British Constitution by the Sovereign personally, or by the representative of the Sovereign duly authorized.