The British Empire Series: British AmericaK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - Great Britain |
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... settler , free lands - The classes in demand . NOT only in Canada , but in all the other colonies , the feeling prevails that too little is known in the United Kingdom - the heart of the Empire - of its outlying portions , and we are ...
... settler , free lands - The classes in demand . NOT only in Canada , but in all the other colonies , the feeling prevails that too little is known in the United Kingdom - the heart of the Empire - of its outlying portions , and we are ...
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... settlers realise not only the climatic importance of trees , but their utility and beauty , and their efforts in planting them round their homesteads are receiving hearty support and assistance from the Government experimental farms ...
... settlers realise not only the climatic importance of trees , but their utility and beauty , and their efforts in planting them round their homesteads are receiving hearty support and assistance from the Government experimental farms ...
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... settlers who became British subjects in 1763 , but although they are termed French - Canadians , Her Majesty has no more loyal subjects than the French - speaking population of the province of Quebec . The remainder of the inhabi- tants ...
... settlers who became British subjects in 1763 , but although they are termed French - Canadians , Her Majesty has no more loyal subjects than the French - speaking population of the province of Quebec . The remainder of the inhabi- tants ...
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They are welcomed as enterprising and energetic settlers , and their sons and daughters become as thoroughly British as those whose families have for generations been reared under the British flag . The social con- ditions prevailing in ...
They are welcomed as enterprising and energetic settlers , and their sons and daughters become as thoroughly British as those whose families have for generations been reared under the British flag . The social con- ditions prevailing in ...
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... settlers of the right classes than in Canada , and that fact alone may perhaps cause you to interest yourselves in the question . Every one is able to do something to help to disseminate information about our colonies , and to endeavour ...
... settlers of the right classes than in Canada , and that fact alone may perhaps cause you to interest yourselves in the question . Every one is able to do something to help to disseminate information about our colonies , and to endeavour ...
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