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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... acres in Upper Canada at a low price on condition that roads should be built , other improvements made , and settlers brought out . Similar companies were later organised to operate in Lower Canada and in Australia , and Thomas Peel and ...
... acres in Upper Canada at a low price on condition that roads should be built , other improvements made , and settlers brought out . Similar companies were later organised to operate in Lower Canada and in Australia , and Thomas Peel and ...
Page 461
... acres of land to every person being master or mistress of a family for himself or herself , and 50 acres for every white or black man , woman , or child of which such person's family shall consist " , with the possibility of an ...
... acres of land to every person being master or mistress of a family for himself or herself , and 50 acres for every white or black man , woman , or child of which such person's family shall consist " , with the possibility of an ...
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... acres per single man , and 50 acres per married man , with rations for twelve months.1 At the same time he held that " the sending out settlers who will be interested in the labour of the convicts , and in the cultivation of the country ...
... acres per single man , and 50 acres per married man , with rations for twelve months.1 At the same time he held that " the sending out settlers who will be interested in the labour of the convicts , and in the cultivation of the country ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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