This Walker, well mated with an equally rancorous wife, was the same man who entertained Benjamin Franklin and the other commissioners sent by Congress into Canada in 1776, the year in which both the American Republic and a truly British Canada were born.

Moreover, Washington and his Northern Federals much preferred a British Canada to a French one, while Jefferson and the Southern Republicans thought any stick was good enough to beat the British dog with.

Carleton's is the only personality which links together all four decadesthe would-be American sixties, the French-Canadian seventies, the Anglo-French-Canadian eighties, and the bi-constitutional ninetiesthough, as mentioned already, Murray ruled Canada for the first seven years, 1759-66.

He knew that he was worth his salary in any Dime Museum in America, and more than that, he had money enough laid up in the bank to live on, assuming, of course, that he could draw it out before the cashier should bolt to Canada with it.

Under him Murray commanded Canada from Quebec.

No one object, in my opinion, is so important, whether you seek to retain Canada as a colony, or to fit her for independence and make her instinct with national life and vigour, as the filling up of her vacant lands with a resident agricultural population.

But no friends and foes like Walker and Prescott could make up for the loss of Carleton, who was the heart as well as the head of Canada at bay.

The government resolved to retrieve the disaster at Detroit, by an invasion of Canada on the Niagara frontier.

On the contrary, he felt that the remedy was to be sought in a further development of the Free-trade principle, in the repeal of the Navigation Laws, which cramped the commerce Canada by restricting it to British vessels, and in a reciprocal reduction of the duties which hampered her trade with the United States.

'Murray's Report' of 1762 gives us a good view of the Canada of that day and shows the attitude of the British towards their new possession.

But so many pregnant events happened in Canada during these seven years, while so few happened in his own career, that it is much more important for us to follow her history than his biography.

The money has flowed in from all parts of the United States and Canada without any special appeal, and it kept coming until the custodian of funds cried "enough" and refused to accept any further checks by mail or otherwise.

Article XI provides for the admission of Canada into the Confederation.

Then came the exceedingly difficult task of guiding Canada through twelve years of turbulent politics and most subversive war.

The government determined to send re-enforcements to Canada under the orders of the Marquis of Montcalm.

There was to be a rising in Ireland, and there was to be a raid into Canada across the American frontier.

ASSINIBOI`A, a province in Canada between Saskatchewan and the United States.

But he also attracted many who had no other motive in coming to Canada than their desire to obtain free land grants, and whose attachment to the British crown was of the most recent origin.

He was represented at Quebec by a most steadfast lieutenant, the quiet, alert, discreet, and determined Cramahe; and he was leaving Canada after having given proof of a disinterestedness which was worthy of the elder Pitt himself.

John Sunday, a Chippewa evangelist from Upper Canada among the Chippewas of Lake Superior, writes from the Bay of Keweena, where he is stationed during the winter: "I received your kind letter.

The total enlistments in Canada up to June 10 exceeded 333,000 men.

I suppose I am to be sent into Canada along with the other prisoners?" "I suppose so, but there is no way for you to go just now.

Now they were employed in the work of developing the wilds of Northern Canada near Hudson Bay.

There was no grass in Canada like the sweep of smooth English turf, and Lister had not thought a house could give the sense of ancient calm one got at Carrock.