Recollections of Sixty Years in CanadaCassell, Limited, 1914 - 414 sider |
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... sent we are without name or nationality - com- paratively destitute of influence and of the means of occupying the position to which we may justly aspire . What is a British - American but a man regarded as a mere dependent upon an ...
... sent we are without name or nationality - com- paratively destitute of influence and of the means of occupying the position to which we may justly aspire . What is a British - American but a man regarded as a mere dependent upon an ...
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... sent a joint delegation to London in 1858 . While I feel bound to admit that we were treated at the Colonial Office with all due courtesy , and had every personal attention bestowed upon us which we could desire , it was but too evident ...
... sent a joint delegation to London in 1858 . While I feel bound to admit that we were treated at the Colonial Office with all due courtesy , and had every personal attention bestowed upon us which we could desire , it was but too evident ...
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... sent into what is regarded as the temporary exile of a colonial governorship , and whose feelings , sympathies , and interests are entirely foreign to our own . Let us cite one from among many a memorable instance of those fluctuations ...
... sent into what is regarded as the temporary exile of a colonial governorship , and whose feelings , sympathies , and interests are entirely foreign to our own . Let us cite one from among many a memorable instance of those fluctuations ...
Side 28
... sent upon details which it seems premature to discuss , it only remains for us to notice some of the more prominent results likely to flow from a union of the provinces . " It would give us nationality . Instead of being Newfoundlanders ...
... sent upon details which it seems premature to discuss , it only remains for us to notice some of the more prominent results likely to flow from a union of the provinces . " It would give us nationality . Instead of being Newfoundlanders ...
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... sent , and we received the delegates with open arms . There was free and frank discussion of the subject , and after a ten - days ' conference a motion for adjournment to meet in Quebec on October 10th , to adopt a basis of union , was ...
... sent , and we received the delegates with open arms . There was free and frank discussion of the subject , and after a ten - days ' conference a motion for adjournment to meet in Quebec on October 10th , to adopt a basis of union , was ...
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Side 334 - It is agreed that the people of the United 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...
Side 336 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Side 334 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Side 335 - Parties, that the inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands...
Side 189 - ... of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America not included within the abovementioned limits; Provided however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or...
Side 335 - Company : and that the American fishermen shall also have liberty, for ever, to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks...
Side 365 - an acknowledgment of Almighty God and the Christian religion" in the Constitution of the United States, February 18, 1874. Mr. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following report: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of EG Goulet and others, asking Congress for "an acknowledgment of Almighty God and the Christian religion...
Side 189 - And the United States hereby renounce for ever, 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...
Side 335 - Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland ; from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands ; on the shores of the Magdalen Islands ; and also on the coasts, bays, harbours, and creeks from Mount Joli, on the southern coast of Labrador to and through the straits of Belleisle, and thence northwardly, indefinitely, along the coast, without prejudice, however, to any of the exclusive rights of the Hudson's Bay Company...
Side 187 - Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed by the United States, for the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, and cure fish on certain coasts, bays, harbors, and creeks of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, it is agreed between the high contracting parties...