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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... important of our colonial possessions . They stretch through fifty degrees of longitude , and contain nu- merous and capacious harbours , extensive fisheries , a fertile soil , and a salubrious climate . Abundantly supplied , at the ...
... important of our colonial possessions . They stretch through fifty degrees of longitude , and contain nu- merous and capacious harbours , extensive fisheries , a fertile soil , and a salubrious climate . Abundantly supplied , at the ...
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... important subject . From the mo- ment British Emigration was diverted from Canada , by the agitation of those wretches who have since plunged the country into confusion , by stirring up rebellion and foreign invasion , I have not ...
... important subject . From the mo- ment British Emigration was diverted from Canada , by the agitation of those wretches who have since plunged the country into confusion , by stirring up rebellion and foreign invasion , I have not ...
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... importance of a systematic colonization of it , from Great Britain and Ireland , with a view of strengthening that province against the designs of hostile neighbours , and as a means of preserving inviolate and entire our Colonial ...
... importance of a systematic colonization of it , from Great Britain and Ireland , with a view of strengthening that province against the designs of hostile neighbours , and as a means of preserving inviolate and entire our Colonial ...
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... important to introduce : " Glasgow , October 29th , 1839 . " I have witnessed with extreme delight , the zeal , ability , and perseverance with which you are prosecuting a plan for an extensive Emigration to Canada ; and I have listened ...
... important to introduce : " Glasgow , October 29th , 1839 . " I have witnessed with extreme delight , the zeal , ability , and perseverance with which you are prosecuting a plan for an extensive Emigration to Canada ; and I have listened ...
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... important to the best interests of Great Britain and her Colonies . I demonstrated from those documents , that though for a time the land speculators in the United States , and the means afforded to them by immense advances of bank ...
... important to the best interests of Great Britain and her Colonies . I demonstrated from those documents , that though for a time the land speculators in the United States , and the means afforded to them by immense advances of bank ...
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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...