Watkin, E. W. (Edward William), 1819-1901 / 2008-06-05 00:00:00

EBOOK CANADA AND THE STATES ***


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CANADA AND THE STATES RECOLLECTIONS 1851 to 1886.
BY SIR E. W. WATKIN, BART., M.P.

"_If the Maritime Provinces [of Britain] would join us,
spontaneously, to-day--sterile as they may be in the soil under a sky
of steel--still with their hardy population, their harbours, fisheries,
and seamen, they would greatly strengthen and improve our position_,
and aid us in our struggle for equality upon the ocean. _If we would
succeed upon the deep, we must either maintain our fisheries or_
ABSORB THE PROVINCES."
E. H. DERBY, Esq, Report to the Revenue Commissioners of the United
States, 1866.


[Illustration: The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.]


_In the absence of any formal Dedication, I feel that to no one could
the following pages be more appropriately inscribed than to_
Lady Watkin.
_On her have fallen the anxieties of our home life during my many
long absences away on the American Continent--which Continent she once,
in 1862, visited with me.
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