Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, Volumes 1-2Canadian Institute., 1898 |
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Page 76 - By opening this intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and forming regular establishments through the interior, and at both extremes, as well as along the coasts and islands, the entire command of the fur trade of North America might be obtained, from latitude 48.
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Page 94 - Canada until the union of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841. It is, however, largely influenced by French Canadian ideas and is in no sense Canadian in the large sense of the word, which should include all nationalities and interests. It gives a clear account of the government under the French regime and a very favorable review of the effort of...
Page 129 - HAMLET. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel ? POLONIUS. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 76 - ... four quarters of the globe. Such would be the field for commercial enterprise, and incalculable would be the produce of it, when supported by the operations of that credit and capital which Great Britain so pre-eminently possesses. Then would this country begin to be remunerated for the expenses it has sustained in discovering and surveying the coast of the Pacific Ocean, which is at present left to American adventurers, who without regularity or capital, or the desire of conciliating future...
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Page 129 - ... and working thereof, and the capital stock of the Company, shall be forever free from taxation by the Dominion, or by any Province hereafter to be established, or by any Municipal Corporation therein; and the lands of the Company, in the North-West Territories, until they are either sold or occupied, shall also be free from such taxation for 20 years after the grant thereof from the Crown.
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Page 125 - ... of ten years' experience with the Federal acts to regulate commerce? . . . The record of the Interstate Commerce Commission during the past ten years, as it bears upon the theory of public control over monopolistic industries, through the agencies of commissions, cannot be accepted as in any sense final. It may ultimately prove to be the case, as Ulrich declares, that there is no compromise between public ownership and management on the one hand, and private ownership and management on the other;...