Aviation law in Canada.

• Main Author: Hubscher, Frank. F.
• Other Authors: Cooper, J. (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1953
• Subjects: Law.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=109360

There can be little quarrel in Canada with the saying "the history of civilization is the history of transportation". Before the advent of the railway, settlement and civilization in the Dominion was confined to the sea coasts and to the banks of our great river systems. These "scattered and weak boundaries" of "a number of inconsiderable colonies”, as one of the Fathers of Confederation with some rhetorical exaggeration phrased it, “isolated and feeble", were dispersed along a narrow belt of territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Intercourse with the interior was hazardous and uncertain; the fur trade flourished but commerce, in the modern sense, was unknown.