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The British Association Visit To Montreal 1884 Letters

Auhtor: Clara Kayleigh

Language: english

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Review by Timothy B. Riley, October 2008


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Excerpts from the Book 'The British Association Visit To Montreal 1884 Letters':

... for instructions of the most detailed kind have been drawn up for the guidance of members nothing has been left, indeed, except what depends on ...
... trust, will be persuaded to take the place of Lord Aberdare. All the vice-presidents and secretaries of sections have been chosen with equal care and ...
... you then of an interesting discussion with a clever and honest infidel, Mr. X-. Through - (who had told me about him), I had lent him Natural ...
... They are a quiet, moral people, marry very young and have very large families. It is quite common to hare ten children, and they live at what we ...
... office, the Hon. Dr. CHAUVEAU, followed and after a few introductory remarks read the address in French. Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, in replying, said:-I ...
... with the rules under which the business of the British Association is carried on, that the proceedings of to-day should commence with the vacation ...
... met outside the British Islands transferring its operations to the Dominion-when we see several hundred of our best known Englishmen, who have acquired ...
... the college. This morning I am feeling quite well, and it is pouring with rain. Friday Evening.-After luncheon Dr. P. Smith called and went with ...
... manufactured goods by English vessels and so ruin Canadian workshops. No country can grow and prosper which only produces the raw article of food, &c. ...
... as I ought to be. Dick took a note from Mr. Plumb to his nephew, Mr. Macklem, and he arranged to call for us at three. In the morning we drove to ...
... effectually drive some off the line. The maids met us at Winnipeg Station, and seemed anxious to go to the Rockies, so we settled they might, and they ...
... alone, only meeting a few men, belonging to the railway in most cases and working on the line, which is the only road which one can walk on comfortably ...
... than Glasgow, but like it in smoke and business aspect. As to the Boulevards, the houses are most of them new, and some in startling styles of architecture. ...
... that we might start together. We went over the White House to-day, where the President lives, and saw the blue room in which he receives every ...
... We returned by train, and I managed to catch a chill, and have been in bed most of the morning. The day was so lovely that Mr. Neilson persuaded ...
... down on the chairs and pick their teeth. Dressed in a little brief authority, they strut before High Heaven, and make one wish they had never been ...
... the Winthrops, so we arranged to meet to-day. Dick went to play the organ at Advent Church, and was delighted with it, full of ingenious mechanism. ...
... sister, Mrs. Corney, such a nice cheerful woman, with a face something like Lisa's, and Mrs. Evans, with a handsome niece, came to lunch yesterday, ...
... us to go to see a famous library, but I was too tired, and when he and the boys returned we went home, and Mr. and Mrs. Neilson were waiting for us ...
... more on, though it was bitterly cold. Thank God, no one was hurt, and as the fire spread rapidly, and the cold was very great, there was great cause ...