House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Volume 3E. Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1911 |
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agreement agricultural American annexation arbitration arrangement Bay of Fundy believe better Bill BORDEN Halifax Britain British Columbia BRODEUR bushels Canada Canadian Canadian Pacific railway CARVELL cents coun discussion Dominion duty ernment export fact farm farmers favour fish fisheries flag FREDERICK BORDEN fruit gentleman gentlemen opposite give Grand Trunk House industry interests labour LEMIEUX Manitoba manufacturers maritime provinces matter member for North ment Minister of Finance Montreal nation negotiations North Toronto Nova Scotia Ontario Ottawa parliament parliament of Canada party present Prime Minister proposed Quebec Quebec bridge question railway reason reciprocity reference regard resolution Senate side Sir WILFRID LAURIER Speaker statement tariff thing tion to-day trade treaty treaty of 1818 tribunal union United vote Washington wheat William Van Horne Winnipeg Yale-Cariboo
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Page 4715 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy...
Page 4791 - ... from another, that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character, that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 4693 - The commissioners shall then, and before proceeding to any other business, name some third person to act as an arbitrator or umpire in any case or cases on which they may themselves differ in opinion. If they should not be able to agree upon the name of such third person, they shall each name a person ; and in each and every case...
Page 4591 - ... any specified relation between the concavity of the bay and the requirements for control by the territorial sovereignty, this Tribunal is unable to qualify by the application of any new principle its interpretation of the Treaty of 1818...
Page 4591 - It is understood that nothing in these rules refers either to the Bay of Fundy considered as a whole apart from its bays and creeks or as to the innocent passage through the Gut of Canso, which were excluded by the agreement made by exchange of notes between Mr.
Page 4703 - United States shall have, for ever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind...
Page 4693 - ... make and subscribe a solemn declaration in a form similar to that which shall already have been made...
Page 4691 - Majesty during the same period, which may have been presented to either government for its interposition with the other, and which yet remain unsettled, as well as any other such claims which may be presented within...
Page 4695 - Island to the light on the south point of Cape Sable, thence to the light at Baccaro Point; at Chedabucto and St. Peter's Bays, the line from Cranberry Island light to Green Island...
Page 4691 - April, 1865, inclusive, not being claims growing out of the acts of the vessels referred to in Article I of this Treaty; and all claims, with the like exception, on the part of Corporations, Companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty , upon the Government of the United States...