Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bourinot will lecture on the "Political Relations of the United States and Canada," on Thursday evening, November 7. Mr. Bourinot is a prominent Canadian litterateur and an official in the Dominion House of Commons...
...second annual report of the Harvard Law School association has just been made public by the council. According to this report the association now numbers 816 members. representing thirty-eight states and territories of the United States and Dominion of Canada. The membership roll comprises the names of about one-fourth of the whole number (3218) of former students of the Harvard Law School known to be living, and includes representatives from the class of 1830, 1831, 1833, 1835 and from every succeeding class from 1838 to the present time. Since the organization of the association in 1886, twenty-three...
...treaty is disgraceful to our diplomacy, because: (a) the "three-mile limit" in the case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...
...entering a harbor, our vessels are under the municipal regulartions of the Dominion government and a right is given up which has been previously successfully asserted; (b) We practically give up right of transhipment allowed to them; (c) "it binds the United States to be content with whatever is given by this treaty as the full measure of its rights, and to be content with it forever," and in the face of all this allows British North American fishing vessels possession of all commercial rights in all the ports and waters of the United States:- Sen. Misc...
...States demand the annexation of Canada," was opened on the affirmative by W. Coulson, S. S. He briefly sketched the relations of Canada with England while a colony, under the old system of navigation laws. Then only was Canada a source of prosperity to the mother country; now the dominion has become a heavy burden. Annexation did not mean war by any means, for England would not feel sorry to part with the drain upon her resources. The practical business men in Canada were all in favor of annexation; the sentimentalists alone opposed it. The resources of Canada are great...