Eighty Years' Progress of British North America: Showing the Wonderful Development of Its Natural Resources, Giving, in a Historical Form, the Vast Improvements Made in Agriculture, Commerce, and Trade, Modes of Travel and Transportation, Mining, and Educational Interests, Etc., Etc., with a Large Amount of Statistical Information, from the Best and Latest AuthoritiesHenry Youle Hind, Thomas C. Keefer, John George Hodgins, Charles Robb, Moses Henry Perley, William Murray L. Stebbins, 1864 - 776 halaman |
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... OTTAWA . BY HENRY YOULE HIND , M. A. , F. R. G. S. , Professor of Chemistry and Geology in Trinity College , Toronto ; Author of Narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expedition in North - west British America ; Explorations in Labrador ...
... OTTAWA . BY HENRY YOULE HIND , M. A. , F. R. G. S. , Professor of Chemistry and Geology in Trinity College , Toronto ; Author of Narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expedition in North - west British America ; Explorations in Labrador ...
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... Ottawa and Lake Huron . The distance between Montreal and the mouth of French River is 430 miles , and of this distance 352 are naturally a good navigation ; of the remaining 78 miles it would be necessary to canal 29 miles in order to ...
... Ottawa and Lake Huron . The distance between Montreal and the mouth of French River is 430 miles , and of this distance 352 are naturally a good navigation ; of the remaining 78 miles it would be necessary to canal 29 miles in order to ...
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... Ottawa River comes in from the north , draining an area of 80,000 square miles . Below Montreal the St. Maurice debouches into the St. Lawrence at Three Rivers , drawing contributions from 22,000 square miles of timbered country . At ...
... Ottawa River comes in from the north , draining an area of 80,000 square miles . Below Montreal the St. Maurice debouches into the St. Lawrence at Three Rivers , drawing contributions from 22,000 square miles of timbered country . At ...
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... Ottawa one hundred and fifty miles from Montreal , and , bending round , approach the St. Lawrence again in the direction of Kingston . From this point they run in a north - westerly direction , and form the rough country in the rear of ...
... Ottawa one hundred and fifty miles from Montreal , and , bending round , approach the St. Lawrence again in the direction of Kingston . From this point they run in a north - westerly direction , and form the rough country in the rear of ...
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... Ottawa , and removed from the influence of the great lakes , possess a very rigorous climate , in which intense winter cold , prolonged through many weeks , is followed by a short but hot summer , succeeded by genial autumnal months ...
... Ottawa , and removed from the influence of the great lakes , possess a very rigorous climate , in which intense winter cold , prolonged through many weeks , is followed by a short but hot summer , succeeded by genial autumnal months ...
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Halaman 423 - No person shall require any pupil in any such school to read or study in or from any religious book, or to join in any exercise of devotion or religion objected to by his or her parents...
Halaman 424 - Scriptures are read daily. such clergymen or his authorized representative may give religious instruction to the pupils of his own church, provided it be not during the regular hours of the school.
Halaman 423 - ... hope, namely, that that Father's kingdom may come ; that he has a duty which — like the sun in our celestial system — stands in the centre of his moral obligations, shedding upon them a hallowing light which they in their turn reflect and absorb — the duty of striving to prove by his life and conversation the sincerity of his prayer that that Father's will may be done upon earth as it is done in heaven.
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Halaman 556 - ... poisoned by the alkali formed by the ashes precipitated into the river, now lay dead, or floundering and gasping on the scorched shores and beaches ; and the countless variety of wild fowl and reptiles shared a similar fate.
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