A History of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas 1558 1910
A History of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas 1558 1910
Avary William Holmes Forbes
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137 for American manufactures " ; and further, " to select for a high rate of duty, those articles which were manufacture 1 or could be manufactured in Canada, . And to leave without additional duties such articles as were neither made nor likely to bo made by home manufacturers. " * ■ This became the stereotyped policy of the Dominion, and its adoption in 1878 seems to have saved the situation. It checked the stream of emigration of Canadians to the United States, weakened the voices of those ...who were already clamouring for commercial union with America, and initiated a new period of prospeiity. When Sir John Macdonald, the great exponent of the National Policy, issued his last election address (February, 1891) he reviewed the results of Protection in the following words : " When in 1878, we were called upon to administer the affairs of the Dominion, Canada occupied a position in the eyes of the world very different from that which she enjoys to-daj'. At that time a profound depression hung like a pall over the whole country, from the Atlantic ocean to the western limits of the Province of Ontario, beyond which to the Rocky Mountains stretched a vast and almost unknown wilderness.
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