Emigration and Colonization: Embodying the Results of a Mission to Great Britain and Ireland, During the Years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842 : Including a Correspondence with Many Distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen, Several of the Governors of Canada, Etc.; Descriptive Accounts of Various Parts of the British American Provinces, with Observations, Statistical, Political, EtcJ. Mortimer, 1844 - 376페이지 |
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... express condition that you were not to be regarded as sanctioning any views or opinions which it contains , I now respect- fully submit the reasons which have made me desirous of bringing out this compilation under the notice of a ...
... express condition that you were not to be regarded as sanctioning any views or opinions which it contains , I now respect- fully submit the reasons which have made me desirous of bringing out this compilation under the notice of a ...
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... express object , as well as to advocate the firm maintenance of our Colonial empire ; and as they have both been in communication with some of the High- land proprietors on the subject , we , the undersigned 8 SYSTEMATIC EMIGRATION.
... express object , as well as to advocate the firm maintenance of our Colonial empire ; and as they have both been in communication with some of the High- land proprietors on the subject , we , the undersigned 8 SYSTEMATIC EMIGRATION.
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... express our wish that such mode of their application may be suggested , as will tend to the encouragement and advancement of Emigration ge- nerally . " We are aware that the late unhappy dissensions that have disturbed the peace of the ...
... express our wish that such mode of their application may be suggested , as will tend to the encouragement and advancement of Emigration ge- nerally . " We are aware that the late unhappy dissensions that have disturbed the peace of the ...
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... express a hope that your friends in Canada may prevail on you to accept the office of Secretary , to be permanently stationed in London to attend to their interests ; and that the Upper Canadians will prove their approbation by raising ...
... express a hope that your friends in Canada may prevail on you to accept the office of Secretary , to be permanently stationed in London to attend to their interests ; and that the Upper Canadians will prove their approbation by raising ...
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... express his conviction that I was qualified for my undertaking ; and it is most grati- fying indeed to me to find that previous to my arrival here , that opinion was confirmed by a vote of the inhabitants of this town , for which I now ...
... express his conviction that I was qualified for my undertaking ; and it is most grati- fying indeed to me to find that previous to my arrival here , that opinion was confirmed by a vote of the inhabitants of this town , for which I now ...
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acres addressed advantages afford agricultural Allan Napier Macnab amongst arrival attention Britain British American Association British North America Canadian capital classes Committee considered cultivation desire destitution distress district Duke of Argyll duty eastern townships Emigration Emigration to Canada Empire employment England enterprise evils exertions existing extensive favour feel fellow-subjects felt fertile gentlemen Glasgow Government Governor-General Grace gratifying gration happy Highlands honour hope House Immigration important improvement increase industrious inhabitants interest Ireland Islands labour Lake land Lord Lord John Russell Lord Sydenham Majesty's manufactures means meeting ment Montreal mother country noble North American Colonies objects obtain Paisley patriotic pauper persons population portion possessions present proceeded proprietors prosperity province Quebec received remove render Rolph Scotland season settled settlement settlers Sir Allan Macnab Society success THOMAS ROLPH tion townships United Kingdom Upper Canada valuable vast wealth whilst
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363 페이지 - Canada, acceding to this confederation and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union ; but no other Colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.
373 페이지 - ... motion. She continued to move on. All were still incredulous. None seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses. We left the fair city of New York; we passed through the romantic and ever-varying scenery of the highlands ; we descried the clustering houses of Albany; we reached its shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted, if it could be done again ; or if done, it was...
73 페이지 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
359 페이지 - ... without it we could not have manufactures, and we should not have commerce. These all stand together, but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that largest is agriculture. Let us remember, too, that we live in a country of small farms and freehold tenements ; a country in which men cultivate with their own hands their own feesimple acres, drawing not only their subsistence, but also their spirit of independence and manly freedom, from the ground they plough....
31 페이지 - To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Most gracious Sovereign, — -We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the legislative...
359 페이지 - When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
329 페이지 - Francisco is situated, as will contain an area of four square leagues; said tract being bounded on the north and east by the Bay of San Francisco, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the south by a due east and west line drawn so as to include the area aforesaid...
329 페이지 - ... it has since continued without interruption. This important possession is bounded on the east by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Hudson's Bay territory, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the United States of America. It lies between 42° and 53° north latitude, and between 64° and 143° west longitude. It is usually considered, however, that the western extremity of the province is Goose Lake, near Fort William, on Lake Superior, in 90°...
74 페이지 - Nothing good nor great is to be obtained without courage and industry ; but courage and industry must have sunk in despair, and the world must have remained unornamented and unimproved, if men had nicely compared the effect of a single stroke of the chisel with the pyramid to be raised, or of a single impression of the spade with the mountain to be levelled.
4 페이지 - ... incompatible with the friendly relations which subsist between Great Britain and the United States. I have directed full information upon all these matters to be laid before you, and I recommend the present state of these Provinces to your serious consideration. I rely upon you to support my firm determination to maintain the Authority of my Crown ; and I trust that your wisdom will adopt such measures as will secure to those parts of my Empire the benefit of internal tranquillity, and the full...