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CANADA, DOMINION OF. 



Eteftion Returns. The result of the election 

 in November, 1882, was as follows: For Gov- 

 ernor, Stoneman, Democrat, 90,724 ; Estee, Re- 

 publican, 67,175 ; McDonald, Prohibitionist, 

 5,765 ; McQuiddy, Greenbacker, 1,020. All 

 the State officers elected were Democrats. The 

 Democrats also elected two Congressmen- at- 

 large, four district Congressmen, three Railroad 

 Commissioners (one in each district), and three 

 members of the State Board of Equalization 

 (first, third, and fourth districts). In the sec- 

 ond district the Republicans elected the mem- 

 ber of this board. The following is the vote 

 for district Congressmen : 



ada, when considered in degrees of longitude, 

 its breadth in miles is only 3,200 from extrem- 

 ity to extremity, and from ocean-port to ocean- 

 port, only 2,200. From Port Nelson, on Hud- 

 son bay, to the mouth of the Skuna river, in 

 British Columbia, is only 1,360 miles. 



The physical features of Canada, considered 

 as a whole, are very regular. The northeastern 

 coast-line is deeply indented by Hudson and 

 James bays, while its eastern one is broken 

 irregularly by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and 

 the Bay of Fundy. 



The lakes of Canada are detailed in the fol- 

 lowing table : 



CANADA, DOMINION OF. The Dominion of 

 Canada, the largest and in many respects the 

 most important colony of Great Britain, com- 

 prises the greater portion of the North Ameri- 

 can continent lying north of the United States. 



Geography. Its boundaries are : on the south, 

 the United States and the Great Lakes ; on the 

 west, from the Straits of Juan de Fuca, latitude 

 48, to Dixon Entrance, latitude 55 N., in the 



Pacific ocean, and from Dixon Entrance to 

 the Arctic ocean, in latitude 70, the United 

 States Territory Alaska ; on the north lies the 

 Arctic ocean ; while on the northeast and east 

 are Baffin bay, Davis straits, the Atlantic ocean, 

 Labrador, Straits of Belle Isle, and the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. Labrador, though part of the 

 mainland, is under the administration of New- 

 foundland. Included within these boundaries 

 are 3,370,000 square miles of land. 



Notwithstanding the great breadth of Can- 



The provinces of Canada are : 



* Great Bear, Great Slave,' Athabasca, Wollaston, and Deer 

 are not properly surveyed yet, hence the areas, etc., are only 

 approximate. They are all shallow. 



