The Scot in British North America, Volume 3Maclear and Company, 1880 - Canada |
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Page 700 - I might say the reckless profusion, which dictated these grants is obvious; the total neglect of the Government as to enforcing the conditions of the grants is not less so. The great bulk of the Island is still possessed by absentees, who hold it as a sort of reversionary interest, which requires no present attention, but may become valuable some day or other through the growing wants of the inhabitants.
Page 773 - You will readily understand that Her Majesty could not be advised to take the responsibility of interfering with the Constitution of the Senate, except upon an occasion when it had been made apparent that a difference had arisen between the two Houses of so serious and permanent a character, that the Government could not be carried on without Her intervention, and when it could be shown that the limited creation of Senators allowed by the Act would apply an adequate...
Page 642 - Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, by the Rev.
Page 711 - ... a federal union of the North American Provinces and colonies, which would include Prince Edward Island, could ever be accomplished on terms that would prove advantageous to the interests and well-being of the people of this island, separated as it is, and must ever remain, from the neighboring provinces, by an immovable barrier of ice, for many months in the year...
Page 700 - The information before me is now so ample that upon no matter of fact can I entertain a doubt. Nearly the whole island was alienated in one day by the Crown, in very large grants, chiefly to absentees, and upon conditions of settlement which have been wholly disregarded.
Page 662 - Confederation that had been attempted to be forced upon them. They should proceed with the legislation and other business of the Province, protesting against the Confederation, boldly and distinctly asserting their full purpose and resolution to avail themselves of every opportunity of extricating themselves from the trammels of Canada; and if they failed, after exhausting all constitutional means at their command...
Page 700 - ... which have been wholly disregarded. The extreme improvidence which dictated these grants is obvious : the neglect of the Government as to enforcing the conditions of the grants, in spite of the constant efforts of the people and the legislature to force upon its attention the evils under which they laboured, is not less so.
Page 711 - ... this house deems it to be its sacred and imperative duty to declare and record its conviction, as it now does, that any federal union of the North American colonies that would embrace this island would be as hostile to the feelings and wishes, as it would be opposed to the best and most vital interests of its people.
Page 872 - June 1875, when the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland...
Page 700 - But in the meantime, the inhabitants of the Island are subjected to the greatest inconvenience, nay, to the most serious injury, from the state of property in land. The absent Proprietors neither improve the land, nor will let others improve it. They retain the land, and keep it in a state of wilderness.