Author: Prince Edward Island (Prov.). "Land Purchase Act, 1875", Commission under
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Canada. Department of Justice
Publisher: Government Print. Bureau
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1480

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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1474

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Author: William Fong
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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"Sir William Macdonald (1831-1917) is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. William Fong's biography places Macdonald's life in its historical context, painting a vivid portrait of Victorian Canada." "Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufacturer of chewing tobacco in Canada, and by 1885 he may have been the richest person in the country." "Macdonald turned to philanthropy when he was in his fifties; his endowments to institutions from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia made professionalism and practical education central to Canadian life. Fong describes in particular how McGill University evolved, largely through Macdonald's financial contributions, from an impoverished institution into an intellectual powerhouse. Most famously, he financed the research that led to Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize and to the start of the atomic age. Sir William Macdonald offers the first detailed look at the development of engineering, physics, and law at McGill."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author: George Blain Baker
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442657804
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.

Author: Rusty Bittermann
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773533893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: Ian Ross Robertson
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Historical writing about the middle years of the 1860s in British North America has focused almost exclusively on the Confederation movement and the theme of nation-building. As a consequence, scholars have largely overlooked one of the most successful extra-parliamentary movements of common people in the history of North America, which flourished in Prince Edward Island during those very years. The Tenant League produced a highly compelling history, in that it played a decisive role in undermining the leasehold system of land tenure that Britain had imposed a century earlier. Through an exhaustive study of period documents, Ian Ross Robertson examines the origins, the modus operandi, and the impact of this organization. In doing so, he has illuminated a rich part of Canadian history.

Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
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Languages : en
Pages : 1220

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Author: Canada. Parliament
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.