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Agnes Christina Laut. Canada at the Cross Roads
Canada at the Cross Roads
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CANADA AT THE CROSS ROADS. CHAPTER I. Are Americans Interested in Canada's Domestic Problems?
CHAPTER II. The Change from Sea Power to Land Power
CHAPTER III. What is the Matter with Canada? Awakening to National Consciousness at Last
Comparative Statement of Population In Canada and the United States
CHAPTER IV. Is Canada Stalling To-Day?
CHAPTER V. Converting the National Parks into a National Asset. The Value of Switzerland and the Lake Regions of Italy to European Nations in American Tourist Traffic
CHAPTER VI. How Canada Does Not Get One-fourth the Profits from Her Natural Resources and Why. A Chance for a National Co-Operative Sales Agency in Every City in the United States and Great Britain
CHAPTER VII. The Paper Sulphite and Pulp Industry of Canada
CHAPTER VIII. Canada's Coming National Immigration Policy
CHAPTER IX. How the Soldier Settlement Board is Winning Out. Where the Knocks Come From, and Why. What Canada is Paying and What She is Getting
CHAPTER X. Changes to be Made to Widen the Soldier Settlement to Include Other Men, Imperial Veterans, Nurses, General Settlers, Widows
CHAPTER XI. Throwing a Monkey Wrench into National Development. If Canada Has Oil and Potash and Tar Sand Deposits and Welsh Admiralty Anthracite Coal, Why Doesn't Foreign Capital Come in and Develop It? Locking Our National Resources Up So Tightly that They Don't Yield Returns
CHAPTER XII. How Labor is Throwing a Monkey Wrench into the Wheels of National Progress
CHAPTER XIII. Stop Knocking Our National Railroads—"Bent But Not Broke"—Comparison With Other Transcontinentals in America
CHAPTER XIV. What Is Happening in the American Fur World, and What It May Mean to Canada
CHAPTER XV. Why the Western Farmer Shied Away from Organized Labour—Which are the Big Coming Cities of the West?—The Labour Deficits on Railroads—Wages of Statesmen versus Mechanics
CHAPTER XVI. By Aeroplane Out Over the Mountains of Peace River
CHAPTER XVII. What of the Future Of Canada and the United States?
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Agnes Christina Laut
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Take the Orient. Is Japan asleep? Not perceptibly to the naked eye. Japan is the dominant force in the Orient to-day. She may break her power as Germany did by precipitate plunging before the stage is set; but if she bides her time till she conciliates China and wins India—you have the Oriental group—Japan, progressive as the United States; China, a sleeping giant awakening; India, a seething volcano of inter-racial hates held in check only by British dominance, which may last, or snap, as Mexico snapped when people unready for self-government seized it and plunged in the abyss of anarchy.
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