The Last Forty Years: Canada Since the Union of 1841, Volume 1G. Virtue, 1881 - Act of Union, 1841 |
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... statute , the reader is referred to the fourth chapter of Mr. S. J. Watson's valuable little work entitled " The Constitutional History of Canada . " of republican and revolutionary ideas , not on this continent 16 The Last Forty Years .
... statute , the reader is referred to the fourth chapter of Mr. S. J. Watson's valuable little work entitled " The Constitutional History of Canada . " of republican and revolutionary ideas , not on this continent 16 The Last Forty Years .
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... referred to a Committee , which recommended certain reforms , the carrying out of which did some- thing to temporarily allay public irritation ; but the system of appointing Legislative Councillors remained unchanged , and it was not ...
... referred to a Committee , which recommended certain reforms , the carrying out of which did some- thing to temporarily allay public irritation ; but the system of appointing Legislative Councillors remained unchanged , and it was not ...
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... referred to him as " the Lord High Seditioner . " The proclamation was too much , even for the Home Government , and a despatch recalling Lord Durham was sent over to Canada . Lord Durham , however , had not waited for the despatch ...
... referred to him as " the Lord High Seditioner . " The proclamation was too much , even for the Home Government , and a despatch recalling Lord Durham was sent over to Canada . Lord Durham , however , had not waited for the despatch ...
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... referred to in a future chapter . For all practical purposes , Lord Durham's life may be said to have then and there ended . He lived long enough to know that his recommendations would in the main be carried out , and that the time ...
... referred to in a future chapter . For all practical purposes , Lord Durham's life may be said to have then and there ended . He lived long enough to know that his recommendations would in the main be carried out , and that the time ...
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... referred to , there was strictly speaking no Legislature in that Province to be consulted . The body that did duty for a Legislature was the Special Council , and this was summoned to meet at Montreal on the 11th of November . No change ...
... referred to , there was strictly speaking no Legislature in that Province to be consulted . The body that did duty for a Legislature was the Special Council , and this was summoned to meet at Montreal on the 11th of November . No change ...
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Page 190 - 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 81 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 142 - That in order to preserve, between the different branches of the provincial parliament, that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare, and good government of the province, the chief advisers of the representative of the sovereign, constituting a provincial administration under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives of the people...
Page 121 - Either the governor is the sovereign or the minister. If the first, he may have ministers, but he cannot be responsible to the government at home, and all colonial government becomes impossible. He must therefore be the minister, in which case...
Page 147 - to speak out ; for, Sir, you are about to appear before a Judge who is no respecter of persons.
Page 120 - ... already done much to put it down in its inadmissible sense; namely, the demand that the council shall be responsible to the assembly, and that the governor shall take their advice, and be bound by it. In fact, this demand has been made much more for the people than by them. And I have not met with anyone who has not at once admitted the absurdity of claiming to put the council over the head of the governor.
Page 199 - Imagine my surprise on discovering that this line runs wholly south of the St. John, and between the head waters of that river and those of the Penobscot and Kennebec. In short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed.
Page 29 - The Queen's Government have no desire to thwart the representative assemblies of British North America in their measures of reform and improvement. They have no wish to make those provinces the resource for patronage at home. They are earnestly intent on giving to the talent and character of leading persons in the colonies, advantages similar to those which talent and character, employed in the public service, obtain, in the United Kingdom. Her Majesty has no desire to maintain any system of policy...
Page 195 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 33 - ... duties in the right discharge of which the character and policy of the Government are directly involved. They are intended to apply rather to the heads of departments than to persons serving as clerks or in similar capacities under them; neither do they extend to officers in the service of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.