Canada and NewfoundlandDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 311 páginas |
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... thousand - dollar Potato Patch Dredging the Golden Gravel Washing Down the Hills Old - time Mining Methods From Gold Seeker to Settler The Prospector on the Trail A Dredge King of the Klondike Hydraulic Mining The Guardian of the ...
... thousand - dollar Potato Patch Dredging the Golden Gravel Washing Down the Hills Old - time Mining Methods From Gold Seeker to Settler The Prospector on the Trail A Dredge King of the Klondike Hydraulic Mining The Guardian of the ...
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... thousand million dollars , and our trade with it is more im- portant to us than that of almost any other part of the world . For this reason we shall start out knowing that we shall receive everywhere a most cordial welcome . The men ...
... thousand million dollars , and our trade with it is more im- portant to us than that of almost any other part of the world . For this reason we shall start out knowing that we shall receive everywhere a most cordial welcome . The men ...
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... thousand square miles , being larger than Ireland and of about the same size as Tennessee . At first glance it seems a part of the mainland , but a closer look shows the Strait of Belle Isle separating the island from the Labrador coast ...
... thousand square miles , being larger than Ireland and of about the same size as Tennessee . At first glance it seems a part of the mainland , but a closer look shows the Strait of Belle Isle separating the island from the Labrador coast ...
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... thousand square miles and sometimes piles up on shore to the height of a five - story building . The Newfoundland coast greatly resembles that of Norway . Looking shoreward , we see great headlands jutting out into the ocean , their ...
... thousand square miles and sometimes piles up on shore to the height of a five - story building . The Newfoundland coast greatly resembles that of Norway . Looking shoreward , we see great headlands jutting out into the ocean , their ...
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... thousand feet above sea level . The railroad skirts the shores of hundreds of lakes , of which Newfoundland has more than it has found time to count . It is estimated that one third of the land lies under water . I met a man to - day ...
... thousand feet above sea level . The railroad skirts the shores of hundreds of lakes , of which Newfoundland has more than it has found time to count . It is estimated that one third of the land lies under water . I met a man to - day ...
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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.