The Rivers of Canada: The Mackenzie, the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, the Red, the Saskatchewan, the Fraser, the St. JohnScribner, 1962 - 170 páginas |
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... United States the world's longest river in addition to the world's highest building merely sharpens the absurdity of the old school - book approach to fluvial geography . Why , I wonder , did they stop with the Missouri ? Why not the ...
... United States the world's longest river in addition to the world's highest building merely sharpens the absurdity of the old school - book approach to fluvial geography . Why , I wonder , did they stop with the Missouri ? Why not the ...
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... United States because they provided an east - west trade , all Canadian , in a continent where the normal lines of economic communication run north and south with the greater power and population of the United States sucking the wealth ...
... United States because they provided an east - west trade , all Canadian , in a continent where the normal lines of economic communication run north and south with the greater power and population of the United States sucking the wealth ...
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... United Canada . The decision was not as absurd as it looked . If at last the two old rivals , Upper and Lower Canada , were to have a common gov- ernment , a seat for it must be found in which neither province was favoured at the ...
... United Canada . The decision was not as absurd as it looked . If at last the two old rivals , Upper and Lower Canada , were to have a common gov- ernment , a seat for it must be found in which neither province was favoured at the ...
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The Rivers that made a Nation | 6 |
Interlude | 31 |
The Ottawa | 70 |
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