INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A GREAT LAND OF RIVERS AND LAKES.
2. JACQUES CARTIER'S VISIT TO HOCHELAGA IN OCTOBER (1535).
3. THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT IN THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX (1604).
4. THE ANCIENT MARINER (1631).
5. TWO ENGLISH EXPLORERS MEET IN HUDSON BAY (1631).
6. THE BIRTHDAY OF MONTREAL (1642).
7. GOVERNOR FRONTENAC LEADS THE WAR-DANCE (1690).
8. MADELAINE DE VERCHERES (1696).
9. THE FRENCH CANADIANS (1737).
10. THE SUPPOSED WHITE MEN OF THE PRAIRIES (1738).
11. THE EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS (1755).
12. THE CONQUEST OF CANADA (1757-60).
13. THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC (1759).
14. WOLFE'S DIFFICULTIES AT QUEBEC (1759).
15. The Plains Of Abraham (1759).
16. GOVERNMENT OF QUEBEC UNDER THE BRITISH (1763-74).
17. ON THE COPPERMINE RIVER IN JULY (1771).
18. THE QUEBEC ACT (1774).
19. ONE OF THE LOYALISTS (1783).
20. THE DESCENT OF THE MACKENZIE RIVER (1789).
21. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF 1791.
22. TO THE PACIFIC OVERLAND. THE FIRST CROSSING OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO (1793).
23. A SERVANT OF THE NORTH-WEST COMPANY (1800).
24. THE BEAVER (1807).
25. A RAPID ON THE FRASER RIVER (1808).
26. LAURA SECORD, JUNE, 1813.
27. THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE, 25 JULY, 1814.
28. THE ATTACK ON THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT (1816).
29. PROPOSED UNION OF THE CANADAS (1822).
30. THE FOUNDING OF GUELPH, ONTARIO (1827).
31. SAM SLICK CRITICISES THE "BLUENOSES" OR NOVA SCOTIANS (1836).
32. A STRUGGLE, NOT OF PRINCIPLES, BUT OF RACES (1838).
33. THE FRENCH CANADIANS IN 1838.
34. THE IRRESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION IN LOWER CANADA (1838).
35. DURHAM'S RECOMMENDATIONS (1838).
36. DURHAM RESIGNS AND APPEALS TO PUBLIC OPINION (1838).
37. THE EVILS OF THE OLD COLONIAL SYSTEM (1839). [4]
38. THE BENEFITS OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT (1839).
39. THE UNION ACT (1840).
40. EDMONTON IN 1841.
41. THE MOHAWK INDIANS IN ONTARIO (1842).
42. THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNOR (1854).
43. THE CONFEDERATION DEBATES (1865).
46. THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT (1867).
47. THE WORK OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY (to 1869).
48. RED RIVER REBELLION (1870): ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH TROOPS.
49. ENTERING THE ROCKIES IN 1872.
50. THE DESTINY OF CANADA (1873).
51. TARIFF REFORM IN CANADA IN 1876.
52. PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS.
53. LAURIER'S TRIBUTE TO MACDONALD (1891).
54. THE CANADIAN TROOPS IN THE BOER WAR (1900).
55. PIONEERS OF THE RAILWAY (1910).
56. CANADIAN NAVAL POLICY (1912).
57. CANADIAN STREAMS.
NOTES
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