The Life and Times of Sir Alexander Tilloch GaltOxford University Press, 1920 - 586 trang |
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A. T. Galt acres agreed Alexander Tilloch Galt Allan MacNab American appointed Bank Britain British government British North brought Brown cabinet Canada Company Canada West Canadian canals Cartier Catholic cent Church Clear Grits Clergy Reserves commercial Commissioner Confederation Council declared defence desire Dorion duties Eastern Townships election Empire England English ernment federal Finance fisheries Galt's Governor Grand Trunk Hincks Holton honour House Imperial important interest issue John Galt later Lawrence leaders legislation legislature letter Liberal London Lord Lord Monck Lower Canada Macdonald Majesty's Government majority ment Minister ministry Montreal Mother Country negotiations Nova Scotia opinion Opposition Ottawa parliament party political position possible proposed Protestant province Quebec question railway Reciprocity responsible government revenue road Rouges Secretary secure session settlement settlers Sherbrooke Sir Alexander Sir John tariff tion Toronto trade treaty ultramontane union United Upper Canada urged vote West
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Trang 492 - XIX and XXI of this treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII of this treaty; and that any sum of money which the said Commissioners may so award shall be paid by the United States Government, in a gross sum, within twelve months after such award shall have been given.
Trang 359 - The government are prepared to pledge themselves to bring in a measure next session for the purpose of removing existing difficulties by introducing the federal principle into Canada, coupled with such provisions as will permit the Maritime Provinces and the North-West Territory to be incorporated into the same system of government.
Trang 326 - Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the Imperial Government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.
Trang 120 - The Constitution of the form of Government, — the regulation of Foreign Relations, and of Trade with the Mother Country, the other British Colonies, and Foreign Nations, and the disposal of the Public Lands, are the only points on which the Mother Country requires a control.
Trang 121 - But at any rate, our first duty is to secure the wellbeing of our colonial countrymen ; and if in the hidden decrees of that wisdom by which this world is ruled, it is written, that these countries are not for ever to remain portions of the Empire, we owe it to our honour to take good care, that, when they separate from us, they should not be the only countries on the American continent in which the Anglo-Saxon race shall be found unfit to govern itself.
Trang 470 - In the present day, it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion shall be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other modes of worship.
Trang 148 - The downward progress of events ! These are ominous words. But look at the facts. Property in most of the Canadian towns, and more especially in the capital, has fallen fifty per cent. in value within the last three years. Threefourths of the commercial men are bankrupt, owing to Freetrade ; a large proportion of the exportable produce of Canada is obliged to seek a market in the States.
Trang 326 - Respect to the Imperial Government must always dictate the desire to satisfy them that the policy of this country is neither hastily nor unwisely formed; and that due regard is had to the interests of the Mother Country as well as of_ the Province,^ But the Government of Canada acting for its Legislature and...
Trang 268 - The policy of the present Government in readjusting the tariff has been, in the first place, to obtain sufficient revenue for the public wants ; and, secondly, to do so in such a manner as would most fairly distribute the additional burthens upon the different classes of the community...
Trang 390 - assumed that there were matters existing in 1865-66 to trouble the spirit of American statesmen for the moment, and they waited patiently for the sober second thought which was very long in coming, but in the meantime Canada played a good neighbor's part, and incidentally served her own ends, by continuing to grant the United States most of the privileges which had been given under the treaty — free navigation and free goods, and, subject to a license fee, access to the fisheries.