Report on the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario: Containing in Part the Substance of a Report Prepared for the Government of the Province in 1872, by David Mills and Afterwards Revised and Considerably Enlarged by the Author for the Purposes of the Arbitration Between the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario |
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... posts , some of whom were made Lieutenant - Governors , and at whose posts civil governments were established ; that with this object in view it was proposed to divide the.
... posts , some of whom were made Lieutenant - Governors , and at whose posts civil governments were established ; that with this object in view it was proposed to divide the.
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... posts and forts west of Mackinaw , and to withdraw not only the small garrisons , but the French hunters and traders ... post had been rebuilt a few years before by La Perriere , the traders having applied to the Governor for its re ...
... posts and forts west of Mackinaw , and to withdraw not only the small garrisons , but the French hunters and traders ... post had been rebuilt a few years before by La Perriere , the traders having applied to the Governor for its re ...
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... posts : one on the Arkansas , one on the Ohio , and one on the Missouri , with one officer and ten soldiers at each ; that at these posts the French should be encouraged to settle ; that they should be permitted to trade with the ...
... posts : one on the Arkansas , one on the Ohio , and one on the Missouri , with one officer and ten soldiers at each ; that at these posts the French should be encouraged to settle ; that they should be permitted to trade with the ...
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... post at the Lake of the Assenipoles . It seems that Lieutenant Robert de la Noüe was furnished with fifty voyageurs , eight of whom were to be left at each of the posts to be established , and twenty - six others were to prosecute the ...
... post at the Lake of the Assenipoles . It seems that Lieutenant Robert de la Noüe was furnished with fifty voyageurs , eight of whom were to be left at each of the posts to be established , and twenty - six others were to prosecute the ...
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... post beyond the limits hitherto known , they cannot compel him and his party to go further than Lake Winnipeg , which is ... posts , and he was to devote all his attention to his pro jected discoveries . This was done , but it seldom ...
... post beyond the limits hitherto known , they cannot compel him and his party to go further than Lake Winnipeg , which is ... posts , and he was to devote all his attention to his pro jected discoveries . This was done , but it seldom ...
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Page 39 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite...
Page 112 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of -the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons and fleets from the said United States, and from every port, place and harbour within the same...
Page 105 - 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...
Page 66 - We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council...
Page 64 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, hereby...
Page 29 - ... that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...
Page 63 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi, from its source to the River Iberville.
Page 65 - And we do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under Our Sovereignty, Protection and Dominion, for the Use of the said Indians, all the Lands and Territories...
Page 34 - Assemblies can be called as aforesaid, all Persons Inhabiting in or resorting to our Said Colonies may confide in our Royal Protection for the Enjoyment of the Benefit of the Laws of our Realm of England...
Page 30 - British subjects with their goods and produce, shall be treated on the same footing as citizens of the United States; it being however always understood that nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing, or intended to prevent, the Government of the United States from making any regulations respecting the navigation of the said river or rivers, not inconsistent with the present treaty.