Canada; its Defences, Condition, and Resources Being a third and concluding volume of "My Diary, North and South"

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Introductory--Canada and the Mason and Slidell case--Threats of annexation--Defence of Canada--Reasons for visiting the British Provinces--Illness at New York--Hostility displayed there--Monotony of New York--Hotel life--“Birds of a feather”--Nationality absorbed--Start for Canada--Railway Companions--Public credulity--A victory in the papers--History of “A Big Fight”--General Pumpkin and Jefferson Brick 1