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  Canada and Reciprocity - The reciprocity treaty of 1854 - Quebec history
Reciprocity, a term commonly used in Canada in reference to an agreement with the United States involving mutual reductions in customs duties.
At length in June, 1854, a for­tuitous combination of circumstances, including the decline in the opposition of the northern protectionists and of the southern pro-slavery party, enabled Lord Elgin, and W.
Concessions by Canada to the other parts of the British Empire and by the United States to Cuba, the Philippine islands, the Virgin islands, American Samoa, etc., were not included within the scope of the treaty.
www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/ReciprocityCanada.htm   (1031 words)

  
 About the Cricket Association
Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, and his cabinet, declared cricket the national sport of Canada in 1867.
The international series between Canada and the United Stated ceased in 1912 and was not played until 1963.
Canada toured England in 1954 and teams from Pakistan, New Zealand, and the MCC came to Canada during these two decades.
www.hometeamsonline.com /htosportsteam/About.asp?username=MCA   (627 words)

  
 Anglican Church of Canada - Theopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Parish of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland is the oldest Anglican parish in Canada, founded in 1699 in response to a petition drafted by the Anglican townsfolk of St. John's and sent to the Bishop of London, the Rt.
The Church was disestablished in Nova Scotia in 1850 and Upper Canada in 1854.
Until the 1830s, the Anglican church in Canada was treated as the property of the Church of England: bishops were appointed by the church in England, and funding for the church came from the British Parliament.
www.theopedia.com /Anglican_Church_of_Canada   (1001 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue.
His success as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (1848-54) led to his appointment as governor-general of Canada in 1854.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=1854&StartAt=1   (729 words)

  
 Canada
Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
Canada becomes the third nation in space with the launch of the satellite Alouette I (Sept. 29).
Canada is the first country to sign the international bio-diversity convention at the Earth Summit in Brazil (June).
mariola.bzdyra.tripod.com /p11canada.htm   (9942 words)

  
 CRICKET IN CANADA: An historical chronology before Confederation
The participants were the crews of two Royal Navy vessels, under the command of Capt. Parry, which became trapped in the ice near the island of Igloolik close to the Arctic Circle.
Certainly these games were the venue of the first cricket played in Canada’s far north.
The first international match in Ontario was played in 1854 between Canada and the United States.
www.canadacricket.com /history/pre-confederation.htm   (925 words)

  
 In His Name: The Anglican Experience in Upper Canada, 1791-1854. by Elwood Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This solid social and intellectual study of the Anglican Church in Upper Canada reveals an institution with surprising complexity.
However, compared with Lower Canada, the church in Upper Canada had the advantage of numbers; anywhere from 35 to 50 per cent of Torontonians were Anglican.
He also believes the church suffered from `intellectual confusion.' However, the church was stronger in 1854 than ever before: everybody at least knew it depended on its membership financially and politically.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/744/name8.html   (680 words)

  
 Canadian Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
Cartier named Canada; "Kanata" means village or settlement in the Huron-Iroquois language.
He sailed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca (which was named for him in 1725) and believed it to be the beginning of a route to the Atlantic Ocean (it is not).
He was sent by King Louis XIV (14) to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/canada.shtml   (3421 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Capacity To Judge : Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854: Books: Jeffrey ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada.
Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a deliberative democracy.
Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to J¦rgen [inc. accent Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority.
www.amazon.ca /Capacity-Judge-Deliberative-Democracy-1791-1854/dp/0802043607   (428 words)

  
 Canada
The Canadian National Flag was adopted by the Canadian Parliament on October 22, 1964 and was proclaimed into law by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (the Queen of Canada) on February 15, 1965.
The "Royal Union Flag" (British Union Flag) is a current "official" flag of Canada per act of parliament of December 18, 1964, to "show allegiance to the crown and as a symbol of Canadian membership in the Commonwealth".
Within Canada "Royal Union Flag" is the official title (i.e., by government regulation) of the flag when displayed by the Canadian government, (i.e., to mark our membership in the Commonwealth or allegiance to the Crown).
flagspot.net /flags/ca.html   (3011 words)

  
 USA-Presidents.Info - Franklin Pierce Second State of the Union Address
The report of the Postmaster-General, to which you are referred for many interesting details in relation to this important and rapidly extending branch of the public service, shows that the expenditure of the year ending June 30, 1854, including $133,483 of balance due to foreign offices, amounted to $8,710,907.
The increase of the revenue of the Department for the year ending June 30, 1854, over the preceding year was $970,399.
From these statements it is apparent that the Post-Office Department, instead of defraying its expenses according to the design at the time of its creation, is now, and under existing laws must continue to be, to no small extent a charge upon the general Treasury.
www.usa-presidents.info /union/pierce-2.html   (7077 words)

  
 Upper Canada: 1791--1854.
For example, he thought of Upper Canada as a future staple producing region, and he proposed, based on the practice of Virginia's tobacco growers, that paper money be issued on the security of wheat in storage, and redeemed when the wheat was sold in Britain.
From 10,000 in 1784, the population of Upper Canada expanded to 71,000 in 1806, 237,000 in 1831, 952,000 in 1851 and 1,396,000 in 1861.
Agrarian interests in the Canadas alleged that the Bank of Montreal and the Bank of Upper Canada were captive to merchant interests aligned with the un-elected colonial elites; and rapid multiplication of Canadian banks, before 1837, reflected the desire of all interests to have their own captive banks.
www.upei.ca /~rneill/canechist/topic_12.html   (7994 words)

  
 1854 - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1851 1852 1853 - 1854 - 1855 1856 1857
1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
June 26 - Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/1854   (1175 words)

  
 Private Action for Canadian-U.S. Union
Canada and the U.S. joined together would, by many measures of wealth, dynamism, and culture, be the greatest nation in the history of the world.
English Canada arose out of and in reaction against the independence of the United States, and was peopled by refugees from the failed imperial experiment in the Thirteen Colonies, who were called variously "Tories" (hated traitors) in the United States and "Loyalists" (patriots of the Empire) in Canada.
Canada would take its place in the grand scheme of things, putting its money and votes where its mouth is in matters like international development, the pursuit of peace, and protection of the environment.
members.aol.com /XPUS/Canada.html   (10168 words)

  
 canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
According to the 1860 census, there was a Jacob Canada living in the Dixon Branch area and is listed next to Fleming Canada's family.
After checking the Wyoming County marriage records form 1854 to 1880, it was found that only one of Jacob's family married in this county.
The whole family may have removed back to Patrick County VA or may have moved to Raleigh County, at the top of the hill at Glen White area as there is a Canada cemetery on the old road to Crab Orchard.
www.geocities.com /saulsville/ftree/canada.html   (238 words)

  
 Canada to Fund Drug Courts
Canadian officials are calling for proposals to create new drug courts throughout Canada, according to Public Works and Government Services Canada.
Canada's Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh joined Cotler in pushing for drug courts.
Currently, two drug courts are in operation in Canada, in Toronto and Vancouver.
www.jointogether.org /sa/news/funding/reader/0,1854,575388,00.html   (283 words)

  
 Family of Archibald HOLLISTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HOLLISTER was born in 1824 in Ontario, CANADA, and died after 1881.
He married ALTHA ANN HOOPLE on 22 Feb 1853 in Eastern District, Ontario, CANADA, daughter of JOHN HOOPLE and MARY RAMBOUGH.
She was born in 1830 in Ontario, CANADA, and died in 1903, location unknown.
users.ap.net /~lancelot/gen/h170.html   (65 words)

  
 Maine History: Historic Facts and Overview
In 1498, six years after Columbus landed in the West Indies, John Cabot, an Italian sailor in the employ of King Henry Vii of England, sailed into North American waters and may well have explored the Maine coast, although there is no concrete evidence of it.
Hannibal Hamlin, a Democratic U.S. senator who broke with his party over the slavery question, was instrumental in forming the Republican Party in Maine, and served as the state's first GOP governor.
With only rare lapses, the Republican Party dominated Maine politics for a full century, from the birth of the GOP in 1854 until the election of Edmund S. Muskie as governor in 1954.
www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-history/maine.html   (2523 words)

  
 John Redpath
The reforms created economic hardship for the general populace, and at age 20, Redpath emigrated to Canada.
He was a member of Montreal City council, a director on the boards of many charitable organizations, and a social reformer who supported the law to abolish slavery in Canada (1833), and also worked to end “White Slavery” (prostitution).
Redpath, a man of amazing skill and enterprise, who came to Canada with almost no education and no money, was also the benefactor of many educational efforts, including the first endowment fund established for Montreal‘s McGill University.
www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Canada/john_redpath.htm   (756 words)

  
 1815 - 1854 Forty Years of Peace
When the Crimean War broke out, in 1854 the regiment was in Ireland.
In 1815 the 76th was in Canada and remained there for the next twelve years before being sent to Ireland.
In 1834 it was its turn for a tour in the West Indies where, like the 33rd, it suffered very many deaths from yellow fever.
www.dwr.org.uk /dwr.php?id=65&pa=52   (417 words)

  
 Biography of Ezra Adolph Beeckler, b. 1854   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
EZRA ADOLPH BEECKLER, a well-known and respected resident of Grant Township, whose well improved farm is located near the village of Granton, was born in Westminster, Canada, April 26, 1854, a son of Alexander and Theresa (Douglas) Beeckler.
His paternal grandfather was John Beeckler, a son of Alexander Beeckler, who, in a Civil War that occurred in Holland during the time of the first Napoleon, saw his parents beheaded, he himself escaping to the United States.
Alexander Beeckler, the father of Ezra A., after marrying Theresa Douglas, moved to Canada, where, as already stated, Ezra was born.
wvls.lib.wi.us /ClarkCounty/clark/data/bios/98.htm   (900 words)

  
 1854 - 1856 The Crimean War
The plan was to capture the port of Sebastapol in the Crimea, denying its use to the Russians.
So the Allies landed about thirty miles north of Sebastapol and on 20th September 1854 came up with the Russians posted in the hills overlooking the river Alma.
With a minimum regard to tactics a frontal assault was made against the heavily defended Russian positions.
www.dwr.org.uk /dwr.php?id=66&pa=52   (457 words)

  
 Sources for Genealogical Research in Canada
The "Canadas" refers to the area approximately covered by most of the modern provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Pier 21, the gateway for 1.5 million immigrants to Canada from 1928 to 1971, is located on the Halifax waterfront, and was recently restored as a museum and tribute.
Discussion and information exchange about the immigrants to Canada who were members of the Orange Association and their descendants.
www3.sympatico.ca /bkinnon/cangenealogy.htm   (5001 words)

  
 Canada Time Line
Ericsson also may have explored along the coast of Nova Scotia and New England which he called Vineland.1455 English fisherman were probably visiting the Grand Banks to fish and possibly had landed along the shore of Atlantic Canada.
1818 Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.
1928 The Supreme Court of Canada rules that the BNA Act does not define women as "persons" and are therefore not eligible to hold public office.
www.hawkshome.net /misc_items/events/canadian_time_line.htm   (8057 words)

  
 The House of Commons Heritage Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1841-1866
Please note that the large images may be up to 60 KB in file size.
Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada
www.parl.gc.ca /Sites/Collections/fine_arts/speakers/pre_confederation/province_thumbs-e.htm   (149 words)

  
 Descendants of John Thomas Graves and Martha Belfer of Scotland, Canada & IN
OF SCOTLAND, CANADA and IN John Thomas Graves (1) was born in Scotland, and died about 1856 in Canada.
They emigrated to Canada in 1854 or before.
(2) was born 3 Dec. 1854 in Toronto, Canada, died 26 Nov. 1931 in Roundup, MT, and was buried in Nov. 1931 in Roundup.
www.gravesfa.org /gen358.htm   (595 words)

  
 Family of Anthony HOOPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HOOPLE (FRANZ, JURGEN MICHEL) was born in 1794 in New York, and died in 1853 in ?, Canada.
She was born before 1809, and died before 1851 in Canada.
No children are yet known from this union.
users.ap.net /~lancelot/gen/h158.html   (75 words)

  
 Operations & Environmental Programs - Ship Registry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ship Registration in Canada started in 1854 under the Imperial Merchant Shipping Act.
In Canada registration is basically a title system for the ownership of ships.
Commercial vessels less than or equal to 15 gross tons which are not registered must be licensed.
www.tc.gc.ca /MarineSafety/Ships-and-Operations-Standards/registry.htm   (360 words)

  
 Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, trade agreement between Britain and the United States, which lasted from 1854 to 1866.
The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 lowered customs tariffs between the United States and Canada, helping spur trade and economic development.
encarta.msn.com /Reciprocity_Treaty_of_1854.html   (106 words)

  
 LLMC - Collection Description - British Canada
Canada Collection contains legal titles generated in or for the British colonies which became part of modern Canada.
Parting from LLMC practice with most other jurisdictions covered in the Common Law Abroad project, due to the high interest in Canada within the LLMC community, this collection also includes many titles published post-independence.
Riddell - The Bar and Courts of the Province of Upper Canada (1928)
www.llmc.com /clacan.htm   (280 words)

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