Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill--but it is equally true that Canada now realizes her mistake and seems ready to change matters. A changes, however, depends as a matter of course on what the United States will do; it takes two to make a reciprocity treaty or anything approaching closer relations with the Dominion. Mr. Fielding, in the recent budget report of the minister of finance, admits that Canada lost "a golden opportunity" and he has expressed the opinion that his country was "predisposed toward a reciprocity agreement which would make for better trade relations and operate to the advantage of both". The Fordney...
...problem of the removal of this barrier has been the subject of investigation by the International Joint Commission, consisting of six members, and three appointed by the United States, and three appointed by the Dominion of Canada. In a recent report this Commission, after two years of investigation, has unanimously recommended the opening of the St. Lawrence River...
...editorial also attributed the success of Canada's most profitable railway--the Canadian Pacific--to the efficiency of private management. As a matter of fact this railway is profitable,--not alone because of efficient private management.--but also because of the huge land grants made to it by the Dominion Government. About one-half of the total dividends distributed each year is derived from the sale of some of these lands...
...only one to make expenses since the war has been the one remaining in private hands. In 1920 the Canadian Government lost $70,000,000 in operating the roads; and in 1921 another huge deficit coupled with the $100,000,000 interest which had to be paid, cost the Dominion half its income. The attached shipping enterprise under government control has also caused grave losses, the capital lost in ships estimated at about one-half...
...acquired either by cession and conquest or by discovery and occupation, and discovery surely gives the United States a prior and just claim on Wrangel Land. Stefansson, on the other hand, states that the United States has allowed her claim to lapse by not occupying her possession and exercising dominion over it,--and the polar bears. And we are forced to admit that the statement is true, since the United States has not, to the best of our knowledge, established there a Governor General and stuff, nor yet, strangely enough, attempted to colonize it or turn it into a naval...