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date at which- they may come. into operation, and fur 

 ther until the expiration of two years after either of 

 the Parties shall have given to the other notice of its 

 desire to terminate the same : which either may give 

 at the end of the said ten years or at any time after 

 ward [Art. XXXIII.]. 



Temporary as these provisions are, or at least ter 

 minable at the will of either Party, they are equitable 

 in themselves, and advantageous both to the United 

 States and the Canadian Dominion ; and, like the 

 permanent provisions of the Treaty explained in this 

 chapter, they tend to draw the two countries closer, 

 and closer together. 



The germ of the Treaty of Washington, it is to be 



remembered, was the su^estion of the British Gov- 

 ~~ 



ernment through Sir John Rose, a former Canadian 

 Minister, whose proposal related only to pending 

 questions affecting the British possessions in North 

 America, not Great Britain herself. 



What these questions were we partly understand by 

 the stipulations of the Treaty, the whole of which, ex 

 cept those growing out of incidents of the late Civil 

 War, are of interest to Canada, including the maritime 

 Provinces, primarily if not exclusively, although re 

 quiring to be treated in the name of Great Britain. 



To the arrangements actually made, Canada would 

 have preferred, of course, revival of the Elgin-Marcy 

 Reciprocity Treaty, involving the admission into each 

 country, free of duty, of numerous articles, being the 

 growth and produce of the British Colonies or of the 

 United States. It was the desire of Canada to have 



