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AND
ITS RELATION TO THE COMMERCE
OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.
BY
James Croil,
MONTREAL.
Author of “Dundas: A Sketch of Canadian History.”
With Illustrations and Portraits.
TORONTO:
WILLIAM BRIGGS.
MONTREAL: THE MONTREAL NEWS COMPANY, Limited
1898.
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada,in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by William Briggs,at the Department of Agriculture.
This Volume
is dedicated by permission to
His Excellency the Earl of Aberdeen,
K.T., G.C.M.G., etc.,
Governor-General of Canada
from 1893 to 1898,
a nobleman who will long be gratefully remembered
as the benefactor and friend
of all classes of the community, and
who, with his Consort,
The Countess of Aberdeen, LL.D.
will always be associated by the
Canadian people with a period in their history of
great national prosperity,
their joint efforts in furthering lofty ideals
having done much to
advance the highest interests of the Dominion.
PREFACE.
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