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THE FISHERY QUESTlOxN 



ITS IMPERIAL IMPORTANCE. 



1. President ClevelancVs Message to Congress, December 9 



l«8o. Congressional Record, Washington, U.S. 



2. Pctjjers respecting the Fishery Question. Canada Sessional 



Papers, No. 101. Ottawa. 1885. 



3. Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries. Canada 



Sessional Papers, No. 9. Ottawa. 1885. 



4. Trade and Navigation Returns. Canada Sessional Papers 



No. 2. Ottawa. 1885. 



5. Report on the Fishery Articles of Treaties between Great 



Britain and the United States. Bv W. F. Whitaker 

 Commissioner of Fisheries. Ottawa^ 1870. ' 



G. Record of the Proceedings of the Halifax Fisheries Com- 

 mission. English Commons Papers, 1877. 



7. Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vols. IV. and 

 IX. London. 



rpHE fisheries of British North America have been the subject 

 X of international controversies ever since the commencement 

 of the eighteenth century. France was the first amoncr European 

 Powers to avail herself of the riches to be found in the waters 

 which wash the eastern shores of the noble domain which she 

 once possessed on the North American continent. From the 

 earliest days of which we have any accurate historical record 

 Basque and Breton fishermen have toiled on the prolific banks 

 of Newfoundland. It was in the days of Queen Anne thai the 



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