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... winter services ; also to Belgium , France , and to the West Indies . On the Pacific Ocean , Canada shares with the Imperial Government the subsidy for the service to China and Japan , which has brought Yokohama within twenty - one days ...
... winter services ; also to Belgium , France , and to the West Indies . On the Pacific Ocean , Canada shares with the Imperial Government the subsidy for the service to China and Japan , which has brought Yokohama within twenty - one days ...
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... winter much colder . Canada , how- ever , lies well within the temperate zone , and much of it is in latitudes lower than those of the United King- dom . The country produces everything that is grown in England . Its best samples of ...
... winter much colder . Canada , how- ever , lies well within the temperate zone , and much of it is in latitudes lower than those of the United King- dom . The country produces everything that is grown in England . Its best samples of ...
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... winter climate is more severe than in Eastern Canada , between two and three hundred varieties of wild flowers are found in the summer , which transform many parts of the prairies into huge flower gardens , while the smaller and ...
... winter climate is more severe than in Eastern Canada , between two and three hundred varieties of wild flowers are found in the summer , which transform many parts of the prairies into huge flower gardens , while the smaller and ...
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... winter butter- making , and they quite expect , in the course of a few years , that the export will equal that of cheese . This seems to be rather a bold prophecy , but the experts are men whose opinions are entitled to every respect ...
... winter butter- making , and they quite expect , in the course of a few years , that the export will equal that of cheese . This seems to be rather a bold prophecy , but the experts are men whose opinions are entitled to every respect ...
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... winter than Britain , but the cold is tempered by a clear , dry atmosphere , so that it causes less dis- comfort than the damps and fogs of winter weather in England . In Canada , snow is as welcome as the flowers in spring . Here , it ...
... winter than Britain , but the cold is tempered by a clear , dry atmosphere , so that it causes less dis- comfort than the damps and fogs of winter weather in England . In Canada , snow is as welcome as the flowers in spring . Here , it ...
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