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The following pages have been written at the request of many old friends, some of them co-workers in the cause of permanent British rule over the larger part of the Great Northern Continent of America. In 1851 I visited Canada and the United States as a mere tourist, in search of health. In 1861 I went there on an anxious mission of business; and for some years afterwards I frequently crossed the Atlantic, not only during the great Civil War between the North and South, but, also, subsequent to its close. In 1875 I had to undertake another mission of responsibility to the United States | Canada and the States 1 Canada and the States Project Gutenberg s Canada and the States by Edward William Watkin Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Canada and the States Author Edward William Watkin Release Date November 2004 EBook 6874 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on February 6 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CANADA AND THE STATES Produced by Michelle Shephard Juliet Sutherland Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. CANADA AND THE STATES RECOLLECTIONS 1851 to 1886. BY SIR E. W. WATKIN BART. . _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.