The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... Commons appointed in 1828 to study the Canadian problems reported in favour of allowing the colonies complete control of local finance . And Lord Howick , Parliamentary Under - Secretary for the Colonies , speaking in the House of Commons ...
... Commons appointed in 1828 to study the Canadian problems reported in favour of allowing the colonies complete control of local finance . And Lord Howick , Parliamentary Under - Secretary for the Colonies , speaking in the House of Commons ...
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... Commons - and he again mentioned the Peelite leaders - was " calculated to render their retention extremely difficult " .1 Perhaps the most interesting of the proposals of the Colonial Reformers was one , clearly borrowed from the ...
... Commons - and he again mentioned the Peelite leaders - was " calculated to render their retention extremely difficult " .1 Perhaps the most interesting of the proposals of the Colonial Reformers was one , clearly borrowed from the ...
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... Commons carried a motion that it was highly inexpedient to increase the number of convicts permanently confined on the hulks in Great Britain . He quoted from the New South Wales petition in proof of the con- tention that so far from ...
... Commons carried a motion that it was highly inexpedient to increase the number of convicts permanently confined on the hulks in Great Britain . He quoted from the New South Wales petition in proof of the con- tention that so far from ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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