Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleases me to see that you are evidently friendly to Canada, from which the United States have drawn so many people. Perhaps you might consider a suggestion to have a page de voted to conspicuous Canadian happenings. The relations between the two countries are fast be coming more firmly interlocked financially, socially and intellectually...
Prohibition. Minister Massey delivered to Statesman Stimson Canada's formal note of protest against the sinking of the Canadian registered rumrunner I'm Alone, sunk by U. S. Coast Guards men 200 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 1, et seq.}. Statesman Stim son described the epistle as "temperate and conciliatory." He sat himself down to prepare a reply...
...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
...agitation last week in Canada at the prospect of an in crease in U. S. tariffs, particularly on farm products. Last year the U. S. sold Canada, its best customer, $916,000,000 worth of goods, mostly manufactured, buying in return some $489,000,000 worth of Canadian exports, chiefly wood and paper ($237,000,000), fish and meats ($88,000,000), farm products ($57,960,170). Loud was last week's talk of raising the Canadian tariff in retaliation. Premier McKenzie King called for "cool heads" in dealing with these international economic matters, but Canadian newspapers suggested that...
Immigration. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court set aside the Jay Treaty of 1794-on the ground that the treaty had died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court...