The British Empire Series: British AmericaK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - Great Britain |
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... Hudson Bay Company , via Cape Horn , in 1835. It is the desire of the Canadian Government to provide a fast service between Canada and Great Britain which The will rival anything now crossing the Atlantic . large 14 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
... Hudson Bay Company , via Cape Horn , in 1835. It is the desire of the Canadian Government to provide a fast service between Canada and Great Britain which The will rival anything now crossing the Atlantic . large 14 BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
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... Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island , New Brunswick , and the State of Maine . I say somewhat elastic boundaries , as they were made to vary according to the changing fortunes of the English , the French , or the New ...
... Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island , New Brunswick , and the State of Maine . I say somewhat elastic boundaries , as they were made to vary according to the changing fortunes of the English , the French , or the New ...
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... Cape Colony , and , although only a third larger in extent of territory than Natal , it contains six times as many white people . EARLY DISCOVERERS Having now given a general idea of the geographi- cal position of New Brunswick , let us ...
... Cape Colony , and , although only a third larger in extent of territory than Natal , it contains six times as many white people . EARLY DISCOVERERS Having now given a general idea of the geographi- cal position of New Brunswick , let us ...
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... Cape North range , in Cape Breton , eastern Nova Scotia ; so that the colony has a claim to prominence in the fact that it possesses the point upon which the discoverer's eye first rested when he so unexpectedly found America . Thus ...
... Cape North range , in Cape Breton , eastern Nova Scotia ; so that the colony has a claim to prominence in the fact that it possesses the point upon which the discoverer's eye first rested when he so unexpectedly found America . Thus ...
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... , and her castern annex Cape Breton , became the very shuttlecocks of European diplomats , France and England alternately in treaties now acquir- ing and again relinquishing possession ; the English claims founded III H NOVA SCOTIA 113.
... , and her castern annex Cape Breton , became the very shuttlecocks of European diplomats , France and England alternately in treaties now acquir- ing and again relinquishing possession ; the English claims founded III H NOVA SCOTIA 113.
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