By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

By 1869 when the Railway Mail Service was officially inaugurated, the system had expanded to virtually all of the major railroads of the United States, and the country was divided into six operating divisions.

By 1869 railroads were built across the country from California to the eastern United States.

By 1869, Leonowens was in New York, where she opened a school for girls for a brief period on Staten Island, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including " The Favorite of the Harem ", reviewed by the New York Times as " an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth ".

By summer 1869 their objections had been overcome, and the wedding took place on 3 June 1869.

By 1869 approximately 1000 Yavapai Indians and 400 settlers had died and thousands of American and Yavapai families were made into refugees.

By 1932 the Central Eureka mine, begun in 1869, had reached the level.

By 1869 small lumber mills were being built at the mouth of every creek.

By 1869 numerous inns and innkeepers had come and gone, and the hostelries changed names in a bewildering way, according to the whim of management.

By 1869 a schoolhouse had been constructed as well as a two-story block of brick buildings with room for four businesses.

By 1845 the town had been laid out, and in 1869 the name Alamo replaced Cageville as a memorial to Davy Crockett and those who died at Battle of the Alamo.

By 1869 Beaver had enough Mormon settlers, primarily engaged in livestock grazing, to organize a stake.

By 1869, it became a yearly event and was held until 1981.

By this time of course Wagner was a well-known figure and the reprint brought many counter-attacks, amongst which may be mentioned: Joseph Engel, " Richard Wagner, Jewishness in Music, a Defense " (" Richard Wagner, das Judentum in Musik, eine Abwehr "); E. M. Oettinger, " An Open Love-Letter to Richard Wagner " (" Offenes Billetdoux an Richard Wagner ", Dresden, 1869 ); and A. Truhart, " Open Letter to Richard Wagner " (" Offener Brief an Richard Wagner " St. Petersburg, 1869 ).

By October, 1869 the world's first postal card was produced by Austria-Hungary.

By 1869, the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple, and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote ( in his periodical " All the Year Round ") of: the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir table

From this time he was engaged in writing novels, including Richard Arbour or the Family Scapegrace ( 1861 ), Married Beneath Him ( 1865 ), Carlyon's Year ( 1868 ), A County Family ( 1869 ), By Proxy ( 1878 ), A Confidential Agent ( 1880 ), A Grape from a Thorn, The Talk of the Town ( 1885 ), and The Heir of the Ages ( 1886 ).

By 1869, when the pioneering Swiss ophthalmologist Johann Horner wrote a thesis entitled On the treatment of keratoconus, the disorder had acquired its current name.

By 1869, Beebe Plain had a church, two stores, a post office, a customs post and some houses.

By the end of 1869, a pension system was adopted, which gradually displaced the kazoku from their posts as provincial governors and as government leaders.

By 1869 some were suggesting that the name pixie was a racial remnant of Pictic tribes who used to paint and tattoo their skin blue, an attribute often given to pixies.

By 1869, Yoshitoshi was regarded as one of the best woodblock artists in Japan.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

By 1938, it was the largest in the world.

By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world.

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

By the end of the 16th century, Bethlehem had become one of the largest villages in the District of Jerusalem, and was subdivided into seven quarters.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

By the middle of the 19th century it was the largest and most modern glassworks in the world.

By area of extent, it was one of the largest empires ever in history.

By volume and weight, the largest concentrations of crystals in the earth are part of the Earth's solid bedrock.

By 1971, when a bibliography of ab initio calculations was published, the largest molecules included were naphthalene and azulene.

By 1340, Cairo had a population of close to half a million, making it the largest city west of China.

By far the largest of the SSSIs is called Cheddar Complex and covers of the gorge, caves and the surrounding area.

By 1860 the largest slaveholder owned only 16 slaves.

By far the largest airport is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, and the second largest by passenger volume is Oulu Airport.

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

By 1905, Pathé was the largest film company in the world, a position it retained until World War I. Léon Gaumont began film production in 1896, with his production supervised by Alice Guy.

By the mid 19th century, the South, The city of New Orleans in particular, being situated as a key to commerce on the Mississippi River and in the Gulf, had become the largest U. S. city not on the Atlantic seaboard and the fourth largest in the U. S. overall.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

By the 21st century, the Netherlands had become a modern, dynamic country with a successful, internationally oriented economy ( the 16th largest in the world in 2010 ) and a high standard of living.

By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput.

By far the largest island is Hawar.

By 1920, Harley-Davidson was the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.

By the turn of the 19th century, the company had become the largest of the ‘’ hongs ’’ or foreign trading conglomerates with offices in all the important Chinese cities as well as Yokohama, Japan.