Canada: the Empire of the North. Agnes C. Laut

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       Agnes C. Laut

      Canada: the Empire of the North

      Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664613479

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       INTRODUCTION

       [1]COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AREAS OF CANADA AND EUROPE

       COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF POPULATION IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

       ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

       CANADA

       THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTH

       CHAPTER I

       FROM 1000 TO 1600

       CHAPTER II

       FROM 1600 TO 1607

       CHAPTER III

       FROM 1607 TO 1635

       CHAPTER IV

       FROM 1635 TO 1666

       CHAPTER V

       FROM 1635 TO 1650

       CHAPTER VI

       FROM 1650 TO 1672

       CHAPTER VII

       FROM 1672 TO 1688

       CHAPTER VIII

       FROM 1679 TO 1713

       CHAPTER IX

       FROM 1686 TO 1698

       CHAPTER X

       FROM 1698 TO 1713

       CHAPTER XI

       FROM 1713 TO 1755

       CHAPTER XII

       FROM 1756 TO 1763

       CHAPTER XIII

       FROM 1763 TO 1812

       CHAPTER XIV

       FROM 1812 TO 1820

       CHAPTER XV

       FROM 1812 TO 1846

       CHAPTER XVI

       FROM 1820 TO 1867

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      To re-create the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life's great dramas again upon the stage of action—frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the present day. Pictures of men and women, of moving throngs and heroic episodes, stick faster in the mind than lists of governors and arguments on treaties. Such pictures may not be history, but they breathe life into the skeletons of the past.

      Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. The story of that past has been told many times and in many volumes, with far digressions on Louisiana and New England and the kingcraft of Europe. The trouble is, the story has not been told in one volume. Too much has been attempted. To include the story of New England wars and Louisiana's pioneer days, the story of Canada itself has been either cramped or crowded. To the eastern writer, Canada's history has been the record of French and English conflict. To him there has been practically no Canada west of the Great Lakes; and in order to tell the intrigue of European tricksters, very often the writer has been compelled to exclude the story of the Canadian people—meaning by people the breadwinners, the toilers, rather than the governing classes. Similarly, to the western writer, Canada meant the Hudson's Bay Company. As for the Pacific coast, it has been almost ignored in any story of Canada.

      Needless to say, a complete history of a country as vast as Canada, whose past in every section fairly teems with action, could not be crowded into one volume. To give even the story of Canada's most prominent episodes and actors is a matter of rigidly excluding the extraneous.

      All that has been attempted here is such a story—story, not history—of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of