The British Empire Series: British AmericaK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - Great Britain |
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... Harbour Commissioners of Montreal , seconded as they have been by the Dominion Government , vessels drawing 27 feet can proceed to Montreal , 1000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean , 250 miles above salt water , and nearly 100 miles above ...
... Harbour Commissioners of Montreal , seconded as they have been by the Dominion Government , vessels drawing 27 feet can proceed to Montreal , 1000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean , 250 miles above salt water , and nearly 100 miles above ...
Page 75
... harbour and shipping of the city are one of its main features , and the following details , taken from the harbour - master's report for the year 1896 , afford some idea of the trade : 709 seagoing and 4832 in- land vessels arrived in ...
... harbour and shipping of the city are one of its main features , and the following details , taken from the harbour - master's report for the year 1896 , afford some idea of the trade : 709 seagoing and 4832 in- land vessels arrived in ...
Page 80
... harbour , with easy access to the Atlantic Ocean , but the water is entirely sheltered , and here could lie in stately repose the navies of every country in the world . New Brunswick adjoins the province of Quebec on the north , the ...
... harbour , with easy access to the Atlantic Ocean , but the water is entirely sheltered , and here could lie in stately repose the navies of every country in the world . New Brunswick adjoins the province of Quebec on the north , the ...
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... harbour of St. John's , Newfoundland . To quote our great New Brunswick historian once more : " In this way the whole coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence became well known long before Canada and Acadia contained a single white settler ...
... harbour of St. John's , Newfoundland . To quote our great New Brunswick historian once more : " In this way the whole coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence became well known long before Canada and Acadia contained a single white settler ...
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... harbour , flowing through a narrow gorge between walls of rock 100 feet high , and here is presented the unique pheno- menon of a Reversible Fall . The river , which at Fredericton is half a mile wide and in its lower stretches much ...
... harbour , flowing through a narrow gorge between walls of rock 100 feet high , and here is presented the unique pheno- menon of a Reversible Fall . The river , which at Fredericton is half a mile wide and in its lower stretches much ...
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