Canada and Its Provinces: The province of QuebecAdam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty Brook, 1914 |
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Seite 69 - Louis the day before, from the mountains, where he had been for four years ; and he now asked only to go and spend a day with his mother, before setting out on another expedition. His age was about thirty ; he was six feet high, and very powerfully and gracefully moulded. The prairies had been his school ; he could neither read nor write, but he had a natural refinement and delicacy of mind, such as is rare even in women.
Seite 124 - Little, very little, will content the New Subjects but nothing will satisfy the Licentious Fanaticks:" Trading here, but the expulsion of the Canadians who are perhaps the bravest and the best race upon the Globe...
Seite 102 - Canada seems not to have been considered as a country which, from fertility of soil, salubrity of climate, and extent of territory, might have been the peaceful abode of a numerous and happy population; but as a military post, whose feeble garrison was condemned to live in a state of perpetual warfare and insecurity, frequently suffering from famine, without trade — or with a trade monopolized by privileged companies, public and private property often pillaged, and personal liberty daily violated...
Seite 254 - ... entire strangers to it, in the whole of their preceding intercourse with each other. Even with respect to the ancient inhabitants, no small portion of the ancient law is unavoidably superseded, by the revolution of government that has taken place. The allegiance of the subjects, and all the law that relates to it — 'the administration of the law in the Sovereign, and appellate jurisdictions — and all the laws connected with the exercise of the sovereign authority — must undergo alterations...
Seite 277 - Their Lordships are not prepared to advise Her Majesty to exercise her prerogative by admitting an appeal to Her Majesty in Council from the Supreme Court of the Dominion, save where the case is of gravity, involving matter of public interest, or some important question of law, or affecting property of considerable amount, or where the case is otherwise of some public importance or of a very substantial character.
Seite 269 - The Superior Court has original jurisdiction in all suits or actions which are not exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court or of the Exchequer Court of Canada ; and in the district of Quebec it has exclusive original jurisdiction in cases of petition of right.
Seite 36 - ... everybody, in short, found a shoe to fit him. At the end of a fortnight not one was left. I am told that the plumpest were taken first, because it was thought that, being less active, they were more likely to keep at home, and that they could resist the winter cold better. Those who wanted a wife applied to the directresses, to whom they were obliged to make known their possessions and means of livelihood before taking from one of the three classes the girl whom they found most to their liking....
Seite 102 - To enumerate these, and to detail the history of this country for so many years, would occupy more time than can be spared by those whom I have the honour to address. Suffice it, then, at a glance, to compare our present happy situation with that of our fathers on the eve of the day, when George the Third became their legitimate monarch. Suffice it to...
Seite 247 - Provinces, and a feeling of the necessity of strengthening themselves by collecting together the scattered colonies on the sea-board, had induced them to form a convention of their own for the purpose of effecting a Union of the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island...
Seite 214 - Attorney General, the Secretary and Registrar of the Province, the Treasurer of the Province, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and in the...