Canada Today and Tomorrow

Canada To-day and To-morrow

For those who mark the current of events, Canadas great destiny is written plain. Canada in a few decades must possess more people and more realised wealth than Great Britain. Whether the centre of Imperial control will then cross the Atlantic is a point on which prophecies differ. Memories enshrined in Westminster Abbey will tend to conserve the ancient seat of government. Yet there is weight in the surmise that the logic of numbers will ultimately prevail. Canadas future is foretold in the past growth and present might of the United States. The same traditions, the same climate (over areas of chief significance), the same resources, andmost important of allthe same method of expansion, will produce, and are producing, the same result. The history of the United States is contained in one wordimmigration. That country has absorbed myriad migrants from northern regions of the eastern hemisphere; and it has absorbed most of them in recent times. Screw steamships are responsible. The population of the United States was about 17,000,000 when the first regular Atlantic service was founded by Samuel Cunardthe father of modern America. Only seventeen millionsless than the present population of Brazil! Such was the American nation when Charles Dickens visited it. The growth of population has gained in momentum with the increase and improvement of liners. We now have 92,000,000 cousins. Twenty millionsor nearly a quarter of the huge nationdate no farther back than Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee. The numerical strength of the Republic has more than doubled since the Tichborne trial. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 59932
Author: Copping, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward)
Release Date: Jul 17, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Copping, Harold, 1863-1932