Canada and Its Provinces: Political evolutionBrook, 1914 - Canada |
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... territory might be made the home of a great nation , and to work towards this goal has been the task of the leaders in Canadian life since 1867. The history of Canada during this momentous period is not a tale of courts and camps , of ...
... territory might be made the home of a great nation , and to work towards this goal has been the task of the leaders in Canadian life since 1867. The history of Canada during this momentous period is not a tale of courts and camps , of ...
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... , and a greater railway was to stretch westward to link the far Pacific with the Atlantic , across Canadian territory . There were fewer than fifty thousand people , other than native Indians GENERAL OUTLINES , 1867-1912 5.
... , and a greater railway was to stretch westward to link the far Pacific with the Atlantic , across Canadian territory . There were fewer than fifty thousand people , other than native Indians GENERAL OUTLINES , 1867-1912 5.
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... territory which they held ; she retained final authority in their affairs , and it was her duty , they said , to protect them from danger ; they were children in the arms of the strong mother . As late as 1861 , when the Civil War broke ...
... territory which they held ; she retained final authority in their affairs , and it was her duty , they said , to protect them from danger ; they were children in the arms of the strong mother . As late as 1861 , when the Civil War broke ...
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... territory and increasing the strength of Canada . His imperial sympathies were strong and genuine ; his hope , as he said in a speech on Confederation , was that Canada should VOL . VI B become not a mere dependent colony of England ...
... territory and increasing the strength of Canada . His imperial sympathies were strong and genuine ; his hope , as he said in a speech on Confederation , was that Canada should VOL . VI B become not a mere dependent colony of England ...
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... Territories with Canada . He was a lawyer as well as a journalist , and in the later years of his life gave most of his time to his law practice . McDougall was a man of commanding presence , with a concise , impressive delivery . His ...
... Territories with Canada . He was a lawyer as well as a journalist , and in the later years of his life gave most of his time to his law practice . McDougall was a man of commanding presence , with a concise , impressive delivery . His ...
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Page 205 - Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial purposes.
Page 348 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Page 205 - Provinces ; and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to say : — 1.
Page 155 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 240 - Local Works and Undertakings, other than such as are of the following Classes, — a. Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings, connecting the Province, with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province : b.
Page 153 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 155 - In case of bays the three marine miles are to be measured from a straight line drawn across the body of water at the place where it ceases to have the configuration and characteristics of a bay. At all other places the three marine miles are to be measured following the sinuosities of the coast.
Page 212 - And any Matter coming within any of the Classes of Subjects enumerated in this Section shall not be deemed to come within the Class of Matters of a local or private Nature comprised in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
Page 103 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 192 - General), and no longer. 51 . On the Completion of the Census in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and of each subsequent decennial Census, the Representation of the four Provinces shall be readjusted by such Authority, in such Manner, and from such Time...