A History of Trade and Commerce: With Special Reference to CanadaT. Nelson & Sons, Limited, 1928 - 334 Seiten |
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19th century agricultural American areas Atlantic banks became began Britain British British Columbia brought built Canadian canals capital cargo centres cheap cloth coal coast colonies commercial commodities companies Corn Laws cotton demand Dominion east economic engine England English Erie Canal Europe exports factories farm farmers foreign gave gild gold grain Grand Trunk grew Hudson's Bay Company important industry iron labour Lake Lake Huron Lake Superior land London Lower Canada machinery machines Manitoba manufactures ment merchants metal miles monopoly Montreal nations nearly needed North Nova Scotia Ontario plants population ports potash prairie production profit Quebec railroad railway raw materials rival river roads route sell settlement settlers ships sold steam steel Stephenson's Rocket supply tariff timber town trade transportation United Upper Canada vessels wanted wares wheat Winnipeg wool
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Seite 175 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment...
Seite 178 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the...
Seite 128 - Black Swan in Coney Street in York; At both which places, they may be received in a Stage Coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which performs the whole journey in four days (if God permits...
Seite 178 - Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste— taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Seite 102 - ... all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Seite 106 - These, like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we scarce have a room free from them. They sup in our cup. They dip in our dish. They sit by our fire. We find them in the dye-vat, wash-bowl, and powdering-tub. They share with the butler in his box. They have marked and sealed us from head to foot.
Seite 128 - At both which Places they may be received in a Stage Coach Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which performs the whole journey in four days (if God permits), And Sets forth at Five in the morning.
Seite 278 - I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days.
Seite 180 - I believe that if you abolish the Corn Law honestly and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity there will not be a tariff in Europe that will not be changed in less than five years to follow your example" (Speech in Manchester, January 15, 1846).
Seite 6 - North, on the contrary, almost every article of dress worn by farmers, mechanics, and labourers, is manufactured at home, shoes and hats excepted...