The Collectors: A History of Canadian Customs and ExciseNC Press, 1984 - 414 pages This is not a book about headquarters administration, it is about individual stories. This book names the names of those people and corporations who made fortunes matching wits with the men and women of Customs and Excise. |
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Page 244
... hands on my mouth till they nearly suffocated me . Upon my making a faithful pro- mise to return to my home without ever going on such an errand again , they unbound me and gave me my cap but would not give my whip , saying I could ride ...
... hands on my mouth till they nearly suffocated me . Upon my making a faithful pro- mise to return to my home without ever going on such an errand again , they unbound me and gave me my cap but would not give my whip , saying I could ride ...
Page 284
... hand over their papers and seized them . The steamer was foreign and the schooner a Canadian three- master . I ordered ... hands down . He was acquitted of assault , and the Exchequer Court , in a deci- sion brought down ten months after ...
... hand over their papers and seized them . The steamer was foreign and the schooner a Canadian three- master . I ordered ... hands down . He was acquitted of assault , and the Exchequer Court , in a deci- sion brought down ten months after ...
Page 300
... Hands , the first collector at Windsor , Ontario , was paid by be- ing allowed to keep one - third of the revenue he took in . In 1840 , this amounted to £ 1,795 . In 1854 , a new Act for the Management of Customs decreed that there ...
... Hands , the first collector at Windsor , Ontario , was paid by be- ing allowed to keep one - third of the revenue he took in . In 1840 , this amounted to £ 1,795 . In 1854 , a new Act for the Management of Customs decreed that there ...
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Alaska American appointed arrived boats border boundary Britain British Columbia Bronfman Brunswick Canadian Canadian customs cargo cent charge Chilkoot collected colonies commission Commissioner Confederation contraband coureurs de bois Customs and Excise customs collector customs duties customs house customs officers English established excise tax export fees Fort Macleod France French frontier Godson Governor Halifax horses Hudson's Bay Company imported Indians inspector Island Kerby Lake land later liquor Lower Canada Macleod Manitoba manufactured ment merchants miles Milne minister Montreal Mounted Police Mounties National Revenue Newfoundland North Nova Scotia NWMP Ontario Ottawa paid passengers person port pound prairies Preventive Service Prince Edward Island province Quebec railway reported rum-runners Saint John salary Saskatchewan seized seizure shillings ships Skagway smugglers smuggling Tagish tariff territory tion tobacco Toronto trail travellers U.S. customs United Upper Canada Vancouver vessels West whisky White Pass wrote Yukon