The Makers of Canada. [Vol.I-XXIII] ...Morang & Company, limited, 1911 - Canada |
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Page 138 - ... this lead into our system, that Great Britain may be no more considered as the kingdom of this Isle only, with many appendages of provinces, colonies, settlements, and other extraneous parts, but as A GRAND MARINE DOMINION CONSISTING OF OUR POSSESSIONS IN THE ATLANTIC AND IN AMERICA UNITED INTO A ONE EMPIRE, IN A ONE CENTER, WHERE THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IS.
Page 283 - You are a grain of mustard seed, that shall rise and grow till its branches overshadow the earth. You are few, but your work is the work of God. His smile is on you, and your children shall fill the land.
Page 241 - Observations on the present state of the Highlands of Scotland, with a view of the Causes and Probable Consequences of Emigration.
Page 61 - A history of the late province of Lower Canada, parliamentary and political, from the commencement to the close of its existence as a separate province...
Page 240 - Third son of the elector palatine, Frederick V, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England. Served in the army during the Thirty Years' War ; commanded the royal cavalry in the Civil War in England.
Page 45 - Canada, have formed themselves into a Society for the encouragement and general advancement of the Physical Sciences, the Arts and Manufactures, in this part of our Dominions ; and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of those branches of Knowledge which are connected with the Professions of Surveying, Engineering, and Architecture : being the Arts of opening up the Wilderness and preparing the country for the pursuits...
Page 146 - ... served under St. Leger against Arnold the following year. Twice raided the Mohawk valley in 1780. After the close of the Revolutionary War became superintendentgeneral of Indian affairs in British North America, but was disappointed in not being made the first governor of Upper Canada. Died at Montreal. Bib.: Morgan, Cel. Can.; Cyc. Am. Biog.; Myers, The Tories or Loyalists in America. Johnson, Sir William (1715-1774). Born in Ireland. Came to America, in 1738, to take charge of the estates of...
Page 309 - A map of the inhabited part of Canada, from the French surveys ; with the frontiers of New York and New England, from the large survey by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1777.
Page 309 - A new map of North America; with the West India Islands, divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan.
Page 19 - The British Isles were in a state of blockade; intercourse with them was prohibited; all British subjects within French authority were to be held as prisoners of war; all British property, private and public, was declared to be prize of war; also merchandise from Britain; merchants whose property had been captured by British cruisers were to be indemnified from the product of such seizures; no British ships were to be admitted into any port of France, or her allies; every vessel eluding this rule...