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. "_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."…
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