Life of the Right Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, Volume 2Earle Publishing House, 1891 - 549 pages |
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Page 155 - The Government of Her Britannic Majesty engages to urge upon the Government of the Dominion of Canada to secure to the citizens of the United States the use of the Welland, St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion...
Page 47 - Notwithstanding anything in this Act the Parliament of Canada may make provision for the uniformity of all or any of the laws relative to property and civil rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and of the procedure of all or any of the courts in those three provinces...
Page 462 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 20 - The best interests and present and future prosperity of British North America will be promoted by a Federal Union under the Crown of Great Britain, provided such Union can be effected on principles just to the several Provinces.
Page 238 - Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly prove, when there is no market either at home or abroad, that there is too much labor employed in agriculture, and that the channels of labor should be multiplied;' Common sense points out at once the remedy.
Page 262 - Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, and...
Page 388 - As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die.
Page 442 - A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the "veiled treason" which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
Page 53 - Instead of looking upon us as a merely dependent colony, England will have in us a friendly nation— a subordinate but still a powerful people — to stand by her in North America in peace or in war.
Page 63 - ... the High Contracting Parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same ; each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said term of ten years./ or at any time afterwards.