The result was the "denunciation" by the imperial authorities of the Belgian and German treaties, which consequently came to an end on the 31st July, 1898. Down to that date Canada was obliged to give to the other countries mentioned the preference which she had intentionally given to Great Britain alone, and at the same time to refund to importers the duties which had been collected in the interval from the countries in question.
"Canada under British Rule 1760-1900"
John G. Bourinot
One married, and his two boys founded the van der Veere firm of importers.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
Not merely agitators such as the shrewd Samuel Adams and the eloquent Patrick Henry uttered these views, but men of far more considerable property and station-such as John Jay and New York landowners and importers, John Dickinson and the Philadelphia merchants, George Washington and the Virginia planters.
"The Wars Between England and America"
T. C. Smith