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Report on the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario
Report on the Boundaries of the Province of Ontario Author:David Mills Subtitle: Containing in Part the Substance of a Report Prepared for the Government of the Province in 1872, by David Mills, Esq., M.p. : and Afterwards Revised and Considerably Enlarged by the Author for the Purposes of the Arbitration Between the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario General Books publication date: 2009 Original publ... more »ication date: 1877 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: Ontario Ontario Boundaries Ontario Boundaries History History / Canada / General History / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) Law / International Nature / Rivers Travel / Canada / General Travel / Canada / Ontario Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Trade for one year. Quebec was founded one year after the Plymouth company had planted a colony of forty-five persons on the Kennebec river. Chief Justice Popham, the principal patron of the colony, died the same year; Raleigh Gilbert withdrew to England to take possession of some property, of which he had become heir; and the colony at once returned to England. f The London Company obtained a new Charter the following year, which gave them, so far as the King could give, an absolute title to a strip of territory 400 miles in width, and stretching from the Atlantic westward to the South Sea. J The Plymouth Company enjoyed a nominal existence until 1620, but they did not succeed in planting, in their American possessions, a permanent colony.§ Extent Of The French Possessions In North America. France, early in the seventeenth century, obtained possession of the whole valley of the St. Lawrence, and before the close of the century she had taken formal possession of the whole country from the shores of Hudson's Bay to the Alleghany Mountains, and the whole val...« less