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Página 43 - Party, gratuitously, if the concession in favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation as nearly as possible of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agreement, if the concession shall have been conditional.
Página 42 - XV. Articles the produce or manufacture of Belgium shall not be subject in the British Colonies to other or higher duties than those which are or may be imposed upon similar articles of British origin.
Página 8 - Athabaska created. May 25. First meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in Ottawa. June 22. Constitutionality of the Canada Temperance Act confirmed by the Privy Council. August 23. The new seat of Government for the North-west Territories received the name of Regina.
Página 42 - Treaty shall come into operation, either of the High Contracting Parties may, on giving one year's previous notice to the other, demand a revision of the Treaty or of the Tariff annexed thereto, with a view to the insertion...
Página 119 - The act of 1897, most fruitful of all, provided for the payment of $3 per ton "on steel ingots manufactured from ingredients of which not less than 50 per cent of the weight thereof consists of pig iron made in Canada...
Página 146 - Regulation of Coal Mines. — No boy under twelve, no woman or girl of any age and no Chinaman shall be employed under ground in coal mines. Boys from thirteen to fourteen shall only be employed under ground in exceptional circumstances to be allowed by the Minister of Mines. There are various other regulations as to the employment of young persons. No wages shall be paid to employees of a coal mine in a public house or contiguous office or place.
Página 8 - August 11, 1884. 1885. March 26. Outbreak of rebellion in the Northwest ; commencement of hostilities at Duck Lake. April 2. Massacre at Frog Lake April 14. Fort Pitt abandoned. April 24. Engagement at Fish Creek. May 12. Battle of Batoche, and defeat of the rebels. May 26. Surrender of Poundmaker. July 1. Termination of the fishery clauses of the Washington Treaty by the United States. July 2. Capture of Big Bear, and final suppression of the rebellion. Total loss of militia and volunteers under...
Página 144 - Royalties are not to be imposed or collected until after seven years from the date of the patent or lease. Any person may explore for mines and minerals on any Crown land not staked out or occupied, and not withdrawn from sale by Order in Council as being valuable for pine timber or other reason. Crown lands, supposed to contain ores or minerals may be sold as mining lands, called mining locations, or may, when situated within a mining division, be staked out and worked as mining claims under miner's...
Página 18 - America, not already included within the dominion of Canada, and all islands adjacent to any of such territories or possessions shall (with the exception of the colony of Newfoundland and its dependencies) become and be annexed to and form part of the said dominion of Canada ; and become and be subject to the laws, for the time being in force in the said dominion, in so far as such laws may be applicable thereto.
Página 3 - England. 1775. Outbreak of the American Revolution and invasion of Canada by the Americans ; every place of importance rapidly fell into their hands, with the exception of Quebec, in an attack upon which General Montgomery was defeated and killed on 31st December. 1776. Reinforcements arrived from England and the Americans were finally driven out of Canada.

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