...in the not remote distance one great nationality We have It to-day. The article continues : — — bound like the shield of Achilles by the blue rim...quartered Into many communities, each disposing of its Jnternal affairs, but all bound together by free Institutions, free Intercourse and free commerce....

...relief fresh aspects of the policy of the Quebec Act itself. THE GROWTH OF CANADIAN NATIONAL FEELING " I see in the not remote distance one great nationality,...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean". — THOMAS D'ARCY McGEE, Speech in the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1862. THE growth of Canadian...

...relief fresh aspects of the policy of the Quebec Act itself. THE GROWTH OF CANADIAN NATIONAL FEELING "I see in the not remote distance one great nationality,...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean". — THOMAS D'ARCY McGEE, Speech in the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1862. THE growth of Canadian...

...relief fresh aspects of the policy of the Quebec Act itself. THE GROWTH OF CANADIAN NATIONAL FEELING "I see in the not remote distance one great nationality,...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean". — THOMAS D'Ancv McGEE, Speech in the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1862. THE growth of Canadian...

...the annexation of the West Indies. — Ottawa Citizen, nth June, 1917. PART THREE IN CONCLUSION " / see in the not remote distance one great nationality,...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean." THOMAS D'ARCY McGEE, 1862. " The question of ' Colonial Union ' is one of such magnitude that it dwarfs...

...adopted country. He had a vision of the Dominion of Canada. "I see," he said, "in the not remote future one great nationality, bound, like the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of ocean." With his enthusiasm he infected many of the younger men in the various provinces; he gathered about...

...national consciousness. The infant, as yet unborn, was stirring within the womb. III. NATIONAL UNITY "I see in the not remote distance one great nationality,...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean." — THOMAS D'AncY McGEE, Speech in the Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1862. HpHE greatest single factor...

...1860, McGee said: "l look to the future of my adopted country with hope, though not without anxiety; l see in the not remote distance one great nationality...bound, like the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of Ocean....l see a generation of industrious, contented, moral men, free in name and in fact — men...

...to the annual Temperance Union meeting in 1865 in which he said of the proposed union, "I see in the remote distance one great nationality, bound, like...the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of ocean." A few readers of obscure news in both Great Britain and the United States wondered what McGee could...

...dreamed famously of an end to hyphenated Canadianism, of a day when 'Canadians' pure and simple formed 'one great nationality, bound, like the shield of Achilles, by the blue rim of the ocean.' John A. Macdonald, George Cartier, Charles Tupper, and Alexander Galt spoke to similarly...