Report: Printed by Order of ParliamentI.B. Taylor, 1870 - 91 páginas |
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Página 87 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done '. Hadst not thou been by, A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame, This murder had not come into my mind ; But taking note of thy...
Página 5 - Therefore, in order to give effect to that agreement, it shall be the duty of the government and Parliament of Canada to provide for the commencement, within six months after the Union, of a railway connecting the River St. Lawrence with the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, and for the construction thereof without intermission, and the completion thereof with all practicable speed.
Página 4 - Mining affairs, and in reply a certified copy of a report of a committee of the Honorable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council on the...
Página 8 - Certified copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the 6th January, 1890.
Página 6 - Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have joined in a Declaration that the Construction of the Intercolonial Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of British North America, and to the Assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick...
Página 15 - ... fortifications are finished and armed before this route is opened. The precaution once deferred may not be taken in time. One other observation I must be allowed to make, namely, that while in all that regards the army and operations upon land I gladly defer to the high authority whom I quote ; upon the naval question of the possibility of landing such a force as could strike a blow fatal to English liberty I can only agree with him when we possess such a fleet as he assigns to us. That confidence...