 | 1865 - 454 sider
...of from 20 to 40 tons, and at the game time defining the route. The capital was named at $160,000, being 3,000 shares of $50 each. The work was commenced...total of the subscriptions in Upper Canada amounted in 1836 only to £3,712 10s. the money in the Treasury must have been a small sum. It is true subscriptions... | |
 | 1865 - 480 sider
...of from 20 to 40 tonB, and at the same time defining the route. The capital was named at $160,000, being 3,000 shares of $50 each. The work was commenced...total of the subscriptions in Upper Canada amounted io 1836 only to £3,712 10s. the moDey in the Treasury must have been a small sum. It is true subscriptions... | |
 | Canada. Canal commission - 1871 - 348 sider
...stated in an official document, that at the ceremony of breaking the ground, on the 30th November 1824 ; not half a dozen gentlemen of capital or influence in the district attended. By 1825, the former scheme was considered objectionable, and a new one adopted for the admission of... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - 1898 - 544 sider
...stated in an official document, that at the ceremony of breaking the ground on the 3Oth November, 1824, not half a dozen gentlemen of capital or influence in the district attended. By 1825, the former scheme was considered objectionable, and a new one adopted for the admission of... | |
 | William Kingsford - 1898 - 718 sider
...failure. We are told " as a proof of how little the subject had attracted public enterprise at the time, not half a dozen gentlemen of capital or influence in the district attended the ceremony." There had been little stock subscribed in Upper Canada. In 1836, twelve years later,... | |
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Ganal, to admit boats of from 20 to 40 tons, and at the game time defining the route. The capital was named at $160,000, being 3,000 shares of $50 each. The work was commenced on 30th November, 1824, ' and as a proof how little the subject had attracted... 