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Search - Canadian Leaves: History, Art, Science, Literature, Commerce; A Series Of New Papers Read Before The Canadian Club Of New York

Canadian Leaves History Art Science Literature Commerce A Series Of New Papers Read Before The Canadian Club Of New York
Author: Various

PREFACE. apology is not needed in presenting this work to the Public, but one is due to the early subscribers for the delay in its appearance. A fire in the building occupied by the printers caused almost a total destruction of the printed sheets and necessitated a suspension of work for some time. It is rare to find gathered into one volume so ... more »brilliant a series of original papers by so many distinguished authors and scientists. I feel a just pride that the pleasant task of editing them should have fallen to my lot. - I have endeavored to give them a setting worthy of their value, and in this laudable effort I ... vzzz Tabk of Contents. PAGE. The Mineral Resources of Canada, . 217 By JOHN MCDOUGAU. An Artists Experience in the Canadian Rockies, . 233 By JOHN A. FRASER R . C. A. . - - - - Canada First, . 247 By Rev. GEORGE G RANT D , . D., Principal Queens University. e h e Advantages of Commercial Union to Canada and the United States, . ,269 The Canadian Club, . 283 By G. M. FAIRCHILD JR , . Canadian Club Officers, 1887, . J . 291 ERRATA. Page 3, line 5, for who seek, read, which seek. 108, line 23, for guiding-hallow, read, guiding-halo. I I 3, I 5, for introduced to court, read, introduc e d at court. Page I 13, line 16, for in waiting of, read, in waiting to. I I 5 , 20, for laying, read lying. 141, 25, transpose Picturesque Canada after Occa to Ocean. THE FUTURE OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. ME of the greatest historians of the olden times, for the purpose of illus trating a nations greatness, would only take into account the number of her spears on the land, and of her galleys on the sea and it must be confessed that, even in this age of industry and peace, we arc not a little proud of our battalions and of the thunder of our turret guns. In dealing with Canada, we have more substantial elements to fire our eloqiiqt e VC have her boundless acres, her lilnitless z New Papers on CanadZa U i s t o r y , forests, and tile exhaustless teeadres of her mines and seas. Under the Confederation immense strides have been made in national development, and this I think ought to be a guarantee S for the future. Rut, after all, there are several gentlemem in Canada, who are not satisfied with the Union, Indeed, at very frequent intervals, some patriot who has failed in the pulpit or at the bar, who has brought a country school into disrepute, or added to the population of a graveyard, arises among his countrymen, and declares that the Confederation must be smashed. The intensity of his eloquence on such an occasion mill be commensurate with his ruants. If he is able to scrape . along at all, he will not bc very fierce, and will receive no great attention but if there is neither brief, nor school, nor pulpit, nor consumptive in sight, he rises to the very highest pitch of patriotism, and some admiring organ of public opinion l u t s an extra at his disposal, If, in the experience of Dr. Johnson, patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel, in , v ours, treason is the first refugc of a patriot...

ISBN-13: 9781408641514
ISBN-10: 1408641518
Publication Date: 2/29/2008
Pages: 324
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Publisher: Thomson Press
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