The Canadian commonwealth
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
is part of: Problems of the nations
creator: Laut, Agnes C., 1871-1936
issued: 2020-03-05
issued: [1915?]
description: "Includes chapters on oriental and Hindu immigration and a chapter on the effects of the opening of the Panama Canal. Also: Toronto, McLeod & Allen, Publishers [1915, c1915]"-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., E3& Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 167
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extent: 343 pages ; 20 cm
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note: THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH By AGNES C. LAUT Author of Lords of thx North, Pathfinders of ihk West Hudson's Bat Company, Etc. £23 INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS J Copyright 1915 The Bobbs-Mer&ill Company CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I National Consciousness 1 II Foundation for Hope ........ 18 III The Tie That Binds 42 IV Americanization « . 61 V Why Reciprocity Was Rejected .... 80 VI The Coming of the English 95 VII The Coming of the Foreigner . . . . Ill VIII The Coming of the Oriental . . . . 127 IX The Hindu 138 X What Panama Means 168 XI To Europe by Hudson Bay 191 XII Some Industrial Problems 210 XIII How Governed 223 XIV The Life of the People ...... 246 XV Emigration and Development . . . . 268 XVI Defense 282 XVII The Domain of the North 294 XVIII Finding Herself 323 Index 337 THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH CHAPTER I NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS [An empire the size of Europe setting out on her career of world history is a phenomenon of vast and deep enough import to stir to national consciousness the slumbering spirit of any people. Yet when you come to trace when and where national consciousness awakened, it is like following a river back from the ocean to its mountain springs. From the silt borne down on the flood-tide you can guess the fertile plains watered and far above the fertile plains, regions of eternal snow and glacial torrent warring turbulently through the adamantine rocks. You can guess the eternal striving, the forward rush and the throwback that have carved a way through the solid rocks; but until you have followed the river to its source and tried to stem its current you can not know. 1 HI m 9, THE CANADIAN COMMONWEALTH So of peoples and nations. Fifty years ago, as far as world affairs were concerned, Japan did not exist. Came national consciousness, and Japan rose like a star dominating the Orient. A hundred years ago Germany did not exist. Came national consciousness welding chaotic principalities into unity, an…
note: Includes index Other copies : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113947584
has type: Books
identifier: HC115 .L2
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0389528
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. HC115 .L2
subject: Canada--Economic conditions
type: Text