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... middle - eastern Atlantic states , the north - central , the north - western , the south - eastern , the south - western and those on the Pacific coast , each pursuing a path of its own . in industry , politics and culture . Within ...
... middle - eastern Atlantic states , the north - central , the north - western , the south - eastern , the south - western and those on the Pacific coast , each pursuing a path of its own . in industry , politics and culture . Within ...
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... middle of the century that the Canadian , realizing that the country might be of immense importance to his own future , resolved to penetrate the mystery which dwelt in the silence of the regions beyond , and like the American ...
... middle of the century that the Canadian , realizing that the country might be of immense importance to his own future , resolved to penetrate the mystery which dwelt in the silence of the regions beyond , and like the American ...
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... middle states than we do to the urban life of eastern Canada . " But the American immigrant has become a friend to the western Canadian , and shows no sign of using this friendship to undermine his 34 COMMON ELEMENTS OF POPULATION [ CH .
... middle states than we do to the urban life of eastern Canada . " But the American immigrant has become a friend to the western Canadian , and shows no sign of using this friendship to undermine his 34 COMMON ELEMENTS OF POPULATION [ CH .
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... middle of that river to the forty - fifth degree of north latitude ; from thence by a line due West on said latitude until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataraquy ; thence down along the middle of that River into Lake Ontario ...
... middle of that river to the forty - fifth degree of north latitude ; from thence by a line due West on said latitude until it strikes the River Iroquois or Cataraquy ; thence down along the middle of that River into Lake Ontario ...
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... on the words of the treaty or the maps , and therefore gave a compromise judgment . A line was to be drawn due north from the source of the St Croix to the middle of the channel of the St John : II ] 47 DETERMINING THE BOUNDARIES.
... on the words of the treaty or the maps , and therefore gave a compromise judgment . A line was to be drawn due north from the source of the St Croix to the middle of the channel of the St John : II ] 47 DETERMINING THE BOUNDARIES.
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American influence annexation Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Bay of Fundy become boundary Britain British Columbia Brunswick Canadian Canal cent century character Church Civil claim coast colleges colonies Commission common Commonwealth Congress continent Croix river decision dispute Dominion East eastern Empire England English English-speaking Europe favourable Federation fish fisheries French frontier graduates Hudson's Bay Company ideals immigration institutions interest islands Labour Lake land large number legislature Lord Lord Elgin loyalists manufactured Maritime provinces ment Monroe Doctrine negotiations neighbour North North-West North-West Company northern Nova Scotia Ontario origin Pacific political population prairies President prosperity Protestantism puritan Quebec question Railway reciprocity river St schools Senate settled settlement settlers ships spirit St Croix St John St Lawrence tariff territory thence tion to-day took Toronto trade treaty of 1783 tribunal United universities Upper Canada vessels Washington waters West western York
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Page 41 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 40 - Successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof; and that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., II.
Page 41 - Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 80 - ... any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Page 41 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 128 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 52 - Huron ; thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that lake and Lake Superior ; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi ; thence by a line to...
Page 114 - You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies that the Colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organised communities of free men have a right to aspire.
Page 70 - ... was it the intention and meaning of said convention of 1825 that there should remain in the exclusive possession of Russia a continuous fringe or strip of coast on the mainland, not exceeding ten marine leagues in width, separating the British possessions from the bays, ports, inlets, havens, and waters of the ocean...
Page 99 - Sea, and it shall be the duty of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month...