Canada and NewfoundlandDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 311 páginas |
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... nearly all of the illustrations in Carpenter's World Travels are from my own negatives , those in the book have been supplemented by photographs from the official collections of the Canadian government , the Canadian National Lines ...
... nearly all of the illustrations in Carpenter's World Travels are from my own negatives , those in the book have been supplemented by photographs from the official collections of the Canadian government , the Canadian National Lines ...
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... nearly fills , like a plug , the gaping mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence , but it also commands the sea routes of the North Atlantic , and its possession by an enemy power would menace both Canada and the United States . It has an area ...
... nearly fills , like a plug , the gaping mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence , but it also commands the sea routes of the North Atlantic , and its possession by an enemy power would menace both Canada and the United States . It has an area ...
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... nearly as large . American sportsmen have already discovered in New- foundland hunting and fishing grounds that rival those of Canada , and some of our rich Americans have permanent camps along the rivers and streams on the south and ...
... nearly as large . American sportsmen have already discovered in New- foundland hunting and fishing grounds that rival those of Canada , and some of our rich Americans have permanent camps along the rivers and streams on the south and ...
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... nearly half were French . The English dominated even then , and a quarter of a century later ten thou- sand men and boys from the west counties of England were spending their summers in the fisheries , as catchers at sea and dryers on ...
... nearly half were French . The English dominated even then , and a quarter of a century later ten thou- sand men and boys from the west counties of England were spending their summers in the fisheries , as catchers at sea and dryers on ...
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... nearly live on our fish , which will keep in their hot cli- mate , but they can't afford to buy the best quality . " Newfoundland exports more than one hundred and twenty million pounds of dried cod every year . Brazil , Italy , Spain ...
... nearly live on our fish , which will keep in their hot cli- mate , but they can't afford to buy the best quality . " Newfoundland exports more than one hundred and twenty million pounds of dried cod every year . Brazil , Italy , Spain ...
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acres Alaska Alberta American Arctic banks Boyle British Columbia building built bushels Calgary Canada Canadian National Canadian National Railways Canadian Pacific Canadian Pacific Railway Canal cattle cent centre coast Company crop Dawson Dominion dredges earth Edmonton eight farm farmers fifty fish five forest Fort William forty French furs gold grain half hills Hudson Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hundred feet hundred miles Indian island Kicking Horse Pass Klondike Lake land largest Manitoba million dollars miners mines Montreal mountains Mounted Police Newfoundland nickel Northwest Ontario Ottawa Pass Peace River port Port Arthur potatoes prairie Prince Rupert prospectors province Quebec railroad region road rock Rockies Saskatchewan shipped snow steamer stream territory thirty thousand dollars thousand miles three hundred to-day Toronto town trail trip twenty United valley Vancouver wheat White Horse Winnipeg winter wood Yukon Yukon Territory
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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.