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... Company , and the haunt of the Indian and the trapper . The various industries , as we now know them , were in their ... Company's Terri- tory was to provide . Now , the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific 4 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
... Company , and the haunt of the Indian and the trapper . The various industries , as we now know them , were in their ... Company's Terri- tory was to provide . Now , the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific 4 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
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... Company , and their only inhabitants beyond those at the Hudson Bay posts were Indians and hunters . Instead of the pleasant wheat - fields , and herds of domestic cattle , that now meet the eye in traversing that country , the plains ...
... Company , and their only inhabitants beyond those at the Hudson Bay posts were Indians and hunters . Instead of the pleasant wheat - fields , and herds of domestic cattle , that now meet the eye in traversing that country , the plains ...
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... Company in 1881 , for the completion of the railway from Callander to the Pacific Coast within ten years . This stupen- dous work was practically completed in half the stipulated time , and the first public train travelled from Montreal ...
... Company in 1881 , for the completion of the railway from Callander to the Pacific Coast within ten years . This stupen- dous work was practically completed in half the stipulated time , and the first public train travelled from Montreal ...
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... companies . Many of them have been aided by subsidies from the Dominion Parliament , from the provinces , and from the munici- palities , but this assistance , as a rule , has not been in the nature of a loan , but of a gift . The ...
... companies . Many of them have been aided by subsidies from the Dominion Parliament , from the provinces , and from the munici- palities , but this assistance , as a rule , has not been in the nature of a loan , but of a gift . The ...
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... between Lake Huron and Lake Superior , known as the Sault Ste . Marie Canal , on the line of a small boat canal made by the North - West Company a hun- dred years ago . Formerly Canada was dependent upon the THE DOMINION OF CANADA 13.
... between Lake Huron and Lake Superior , known as the Sault Ste . Marie Canal , on the line of a small boat canal made by the North - West Company a hun- dred years ago . Formerly Canada was dependent upon the THE DOMINION OF CANADA 13.
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