Canada and NewfoundlandDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 311 páginas |
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Frank George Carpenter. island from the Labrador coast . Though in some places only eight or ten miles wide , this strait furnishes a sum- mer - time passage for transatlantic liners to Canada . For some years there has been talk of ...
Frank George Carpenter. island from the Labrador coast . Though in some places only eight or ten miles wide , this strait furnishes a sum- mer - time passage for transatlantic liners to Canada . For some years there has been talk of ...
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... eight years , eight per cent . for one year , and none at all for only one year . The Union went into politics , and for three elections has had eleven members in the lower house . By combination with other groups this bloc has held the ...
... eight years , eight per cent . for one year , and none at all for only one year . The Union went into politics , and for three elections has had eleven members in the lower house . By combination with other groups this bloc has held the ...
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... eight hours after reaching the ice - field , some three hundred thousand mother seals give birth to as many babies . The baby seals gain weight at the rate of four pounds a day , and rapidly take on a coating of fat about two and a half ...
... eight hours after reaching the ice - field , some three hundred thousand mother seals give birth to as many babies . The baby seals gain weight at the rate of four pounds a day , and rapidly take on a coating of fat about two and a half ...
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... eight feet from ceiling to floor . I noticed that some of the timber props were covered with a sort of fungus that looked like frost or white cotton , while here and there water trickling out of the rock glistened in the light of our ...
... eight feet from ceiling to floor . I noticed that some of the timber props were covered with a sort of fungus that looked like frost or white cotton , while here and there water trickling out of the rock glistened in the light of our ...
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... eight of these tiles set on end stick- ing out of their chimneys . The streets are built on terraces cut in the hillside , or plunging down toward the water . Some of them are so narrow that they have room for only a single trolley ...
... eight of these tiles set on end stick- ing out of their chimneys . The streets are built on terraces cut in the hillside , or plunging down toward the water . Some of them are so narrow that they have room for only a single trolley ...
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Página 102 - O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations...
Página 2 - Two empires by the sea, Two nations great and free, One anthem raise. One race of ancient fame, One tongue, one faith, we claim, One God, whose glorious name We love and praise.
Página 258 - Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam round the Pole God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that 'he'd sooner live in hell.
Página 53 - There was a small boy of Quebec, Who was buried in snow to his neck: When they said, "Are you friz?" He replied, "Yes I is— But we don't call this cold in Quebec!
Página 206 - Canon to the Plains of Far-away, But while its stream is running through the years that are to be, The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me. I shall hear the roar of rivers where the rapids foam and tear, I shall smell the virgin upland with its balsam-laden air, And shall dream that I am riding down the winding woody vale, With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail.
Página 206 - I have seen the gorge of Erie where the roaring waters run, I have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying golden in the sun, But the last and best and sweetest is the ride by hill and dale, With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail. I'll dream again of fields of grain that stretch from sky to sky And the little prairie hamlets where the cars go roaring by, Wooden hamlets as I saw them — noble cities still to be. To girdle stately Canada with gems from sea to sea. Mother of a mighty manhood,...
Página 246 - There's a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons And I want to go back - and I will.
Página 277 - ... that he was too drunk to know what he was doing when he executed the note in question, and, at least, that it was without consideration, and these are the material facts In this case, as shown by this record.
Página 166 - It does not believe we can make it succeed. I do. I believe that if the army of workers lines up behind us, we shall achieve the greatest success the annals of transportation ever recorded.
Página 281 - A leading restaurant, which had a seating capacity of thirty-two, employed three cooks, one of whom received $100 a week, and the others $i an hour.