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... territories from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869 for £ 300,000 . How difficult the negotia- tions were , the blunders made in the transfer and the political troubles that issued in the first rebellion of French half - breeds under Riel ...
... territories from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869 for £ 300,000 . How difficult the negotia- tions were , the blunders made in the transfer and the political troubles that issued in the first rebellion of French half - breeds under Riel ...
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... territory as of the claim that it is national property . What the nation has it will hold ; senti- ment adds strength to the grasp ; even to sell may appear an unworthy compromise in a young country . As long , therefore , as the ...
... territory as of the claim that it is national property . What the nation has it will hold ; senti- ment adds strength to the grasp ; even to sell may appear an unworthy compromise in a young country . As long , therefore , as the ...
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... territory interpret the indefinite to their own advan- tage . Human nature and the countries being what they are , it is remarkable that the peace was not broken ; indeed on one or two occasions the issue was accepted because England ...
... territory interpret the indefinite to their own advan- tage . Human nature and the countries being what they are , it is remarkable that the peace was not broken ; indeed on one or two occasions the issue was accepted because England ...
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... territory were faulty . If it is realized that even as late as 1838 roads had not yet been built from Maine into the disputed territory , and that the Americans had to ask from New Brunswick the privilege of allowing their surveyors to ...
... territory were faulty . If it is realized that even as late as 1838 roads had not yet been built from Maine into the disputed territory , and that the Americans had to ask from New Brunswick the privilege of allowing their surveyors to ...
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... territory . ( b ) The Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay . The St Croix river empties into this bay , and in its mouth and off shore there lie a number of small islands , and two - Grand Manan , nine miles from the main coast , and Campobello ...
... territory . ( b ) The Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay . The St Croix river empties into this bay , and in its mouth and off shore there lie a number of small islands , and two - Grand Manan , nine miles from the main coast , and Campobello ...
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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...