...British possessions west of the 91st meridian. They will become so Americanised in interests and feeling that they will be in effect severed from the new Dominion,...their annexation will be but a question of time." A CHAPTER V. FtJTUfcE PROSPECTS. WILL the Pacific railroads pay ? The traffic receipts, and the deductions...

...British possessions west of the 91st meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests and feeling that they will be in effect severed from the new dominion,...of their annexation will be but a question of time. Au evidence of the feeling that already impels them towards us will be found in a petition to the home...

...first of a North Pacific Railroad seals the destiny of the British possessions west of the (•1st meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests...their annexation will be but a question of time." By the terms by which British Columbia entered the Dominion, it was provided that the Government of...

...us first of a North Pacific railroad seals the destiny of the British possessions west of the gist meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests...their annexation will be but a question of time." So the statesmen of the Union hoped, and so feared Sir John Macdonald, the keenest living spectator...

...of a North Pacific Railroad," a naively frank United States Senate Committee had declared in 1869, "seals the destiny of the British possessions west...Dominion, and the question of their annexation will be but 204 a question of time." The settlers or speculators in the West protested against compromise or delay...

...of a Northern Pacific Railway seals the destiny of the British possessions west of the ninety first meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests...effect severed from the new Dominion, and the question i?Q8 of their annexation will be but a question of time. " Now this was not the attitude merely of...

...Force. 1 Sir Charles Tupper, Recollections of Sixty Years, p. 124. British possessions west of the gist meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests...their annexation will be but a question of time." 1 Other transcontinental lines were built later, but the Canadian Pacific Railway was the barrier that...

...91st meridian. They will become so Americanized in interests and feelings that they will in effect be severed from the new Dominion, and the question of their annexation will be but a question of time." This opinion was sound enough at the time it was uttered, but the statesmanship of Sir John A. Macdonald...