The Day of Sir Wilfred Laurier; a Chronicle of Our Own Times
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' It is im- portant,' he said, ' that we should ask the British parliament for more extensive powers, so that if ever we have to deal with matters of a similar nature again, we shall deal with them in our own way, in our own fashion, according to the best light we have.' The demand was not pressed. The change desired, at least in respect to the United States, did come in fact a few years later, though, as usual in British countries, much of the old forms remained. CHAPTER XI THE COMING OF PROSP...ERITY We have seen that in the early years of the Laurier regime Canada attained a new inter- national status and came to play no small part in the affairs of the Empire. No less notable in the succeeding years was the remarkable industrial expansion at home, the sunrise of prosperity which followed the long night of depression. This expansion touched every corner of the far-flung Dominion, and was based on the exploitation of resources and possibilities of the most varied kind. Yet the central fact, the development which caused and conditioned all the rest, was the settle- ment of the great western plains.
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