Excerpt from The Kingdom of Canada; Imperial Federation, the Colonial Conferences; The Alaska Boundary: And Other Essays The Hon. Adams G. Archibald said that the united provinces would form a nation which in all the elements that constitute real greatness might be ranked as the third or fourth on the face of the globe (whelan, p. Lieutenant-colonel Gray said that they wanted a national union, one which would enable them to take an honorable place among the nations of the earth (lb. P. The Hon. Charles Fisher said that the federation would be the fourth maritime power in the world. Eng land, France, and the United States would alone be superior to it (lb. P. Sir George E. Cartier (que) said that the delegates had met to inquire whether it were possible for the provinces, from their present fragmentary and isolated materials, to form a nation or kingdom (lb. Pp. 9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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