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advantages agricultural amount Andrew's Halifax appears average barrels boats Britain British Colonies British fisheries British Northern Colonies British West Indies Brunswick bushels Canadian cent coasts Colonial Accounts colonial industry Colonial System Colonial trade colonists commerce corn cotton cwts dollars dominions duties emigrants empire employed employment Erie estimate exchange exports computed favour fish fishery Flour foreign countries foreign trade forests France freight Furs given Gulph of St Hudson's Bay important increase inland trade Inwards John's labour Lake land late Lawrence less Lower Canada lower ports manufactures nature navigation Newfoundland Northern Colonies Nova Scotia Number of Ships Official Returns Official Value Outwards P. E. Island parliament perhaps plantations population present protection provinces quantity Quebec quintals river seems Southern staves Sterling supplies tion tobacco tonnage Tons Total treaty treaty of Utrecht United Kingdom Upper Canada Value of Exports waters wealth Welland Canal West Indian wheat yearly
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Page 74 - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ; and His Majesty declares that He is fully satisfied on this head. In regard to the fishery between the Island of Newfoundland, and those of St. Pierre and Miquelon, it is not to be carried on, by either party, but to the middle of the channel, and His Majesty will give the most positive orders, that the French fishermen shall not go beyond this line. His Majesty is firmly persuaded that the King of Great Britain will give like orders to the English fishermen.
Page 74 - ... shall be carried on there; it shall not be deviated from by either party; the French fishermen building only their scaffolds, confining themselves to the repair of their fishing vessels, and not wintering there; the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, on their part, not molesting, in any manner, the French fishermen, during their fishing, nor injuring their scaffolds during their absence.
Page 74 - To this end, and in order that the fishermen of the two nations may not give cause for daily quarrels, his Britannic Majesty will take the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from interrupting, in any manner, by their competition, the fishery of the French, during the temporary exercise of it which is granted to them upon the coasts of the island of Newfoundland ; and he will for this purpose cause the fixed settlements, which shall be formed there, to be removed.
Page 72 - ... fog, much more suitable for making and curing it, and preparing it for the foreign markets. The principal British Fishery was carried on in that quarter during the war. To use the words of an intelligent writer on the subject— " British fishers are consequently driven to the shores of Labrador, a longer voyage, where the quality of the fish, and the means of drying and curing them, are far inferior. The north-eastern coast of Newfoundland happens to be precisely that which is most exempted...
Page 71 - Great Britain, who owns, supports, and defends these Colonies and Fisheries, and has derived from them the principal means of defending herself, gave up, at the conclusion of the war, to her vanquished opponents the most valuable portion of her Colonial coasts and waters. To the French in 1814 she conceded the North coast and AVestcrn coast of Newfoundland, from Cape St.
Page 165 - The prevailing opinion, that large profits are obtained through the monopoly, has always confused the question. This opinion has been held to be so completely beyond all doubt, that the great value of colonies has been considered as not admitting of dispute; and no pains have been taken to trace by facts in what way they are valuable. Had such an examination been properly gone into, it would have...
Page 42 - Atlantic is carried by, on the stream from the Gulph of Mexico, as on the bosom of a river, as the commerce of the five great lakes will descend the broad St. Lawrence by the gatesof Q uebec.
Page 3 - Canadian provinces will become a rich, populous, and powerful country, is certain. No minister, no policy, can prevent that. But whether that wealth, and population, and power, shall be British, is for the wisdom of Government and Parliament to determine. May it not be hoped, that the new constituents, and their representatives, who have now succeeded to power, will make it a point...
Page 42 - Cape Breton, Halifax, the islands of Grand Manan and Bermuda, not only secure the navigation of the ocean, but they shut up and form a chain of blockade along the whole American coast. Late be the necessity of exerting such a power again, as its former exercise was brief and successful...
Page 134 - The tolls paid amounted to $771,780 10 cts. Wo have no late statements of the amount of the trade on the Ohio, Mississippi, &c. but in 1823, not lesa than 300,000 barrels of Gour, 75,000 do.