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... early stages , and development to any extent did not seem to be possible without the stimulus which federation and the acquisition of the Hudson Bay Company's Terri- tory was to provide . Now , the country from the Atlantic to the ...
... early stages , and development to any extent did not seem to be possible without the stimulus which federation and the acquisition of the Hudson Bay Company's Terri- tory was to provide . Now , the country from the Atlantic to the ...
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... early days , owing to the difference in the levels of those enormous sheets of water . Work upon the canals was started nearly one hundred and twenty years ago , and improvements have been going on ever since . As the result of the ...
... early days , owing to the difference in the levels of those enormous sheets of water . Work upon the canals was started nearly one hundred and twenty years ago , and improvements have been going on ever since . As the result of the ...
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... early pioneers of Canada , who had to clear the land of the trees before it became available for agriculture . Immense areas of timber land still exist in all the eastern provinces , and the lumber industry is a most important one , the ...
... early pioneers of Canada , who had to clear the land of the trees before it became available for agriculture . Immense areas of timber land still exist in all the eastern provinces , and the lumber industry is a most important one , the ...
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... early youth will know that the aboriginal inhabitants of the Dominion were the Indians , but , in the aspect which was presented to our minds long ago , these are things of the past . In Eastern Canada they engage in industrial pursuits ...
... early youth will know that the aboriginal inhabitants of the Dominion were the Indians , but , in the aspect which was presented to our minds long ago , these are things of the past . In Eastern Canada they engage in industrial pursuits ...
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British Parliament abolishing slavery throughout all the dependencies of the Empire . The earliest settlers of Upper ... early struggles with the forces of nature . However , they found before long that Upper Canada was a goodly land ...
British Parliament abolishing slavery throughout all the dependencies of the Empire . The earliest settlers of Upper ... early struggles with the forces of nature . However , they found before long that Upper Canada was a goodly land ...
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