Canada: the Empire of the North

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

Canada: the Empire of the North

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

VIKING SHIP RECENTLY DISCOVERED

DIVISION OF THE NEW WORLD BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

A TYPICAL "HOLE IN THE WALL" AT "KITTY VIDDY," NEAR ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND

SEBASTIAN CABOT

Jacques Cartier

WHERE THE FISHER HAMLETS NOW NESTLE, NEWFOUNDLAND

ANCIENT HOCHELAGA. (From Ramusio)

THE "DAUPHIN MAP" OF CANADA, CIRCA 1543, SHOWING CARTIER'S DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER II

FROM 1600 TO 1607

QUEEN ELIZABETH

THE BOYHOOD OF GILBERT AND RALEIGH. (From the painting by Sir John Millais)

SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

AT EASTERN ENTRANCE TO HUDSON STRAITS

HUDSON COAT OF ARMS

THE FANTASTIC ROCKS OF GASPÉ

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

PORT ROYAL OR ANNAPOLIS BASIN, 1609 (From Lescarbot's map)

BUILDINGS ON STE. CROIX ISLAND, 1613 (From Champlain's diagram)

CHAPTER III

FROM 1607 TO 1635

PORT ROYAL (From Champlain's diagram)

TADOUSSAC (From Champlain's map)

DEFEAT OF THE IROQUOIS (From Champlain's drawing)

THE ONONDAGA FORT (From Champlain's diagram)

VIEW OF QUEBEC (From Champlain's plan)

QUEBEC (From Champlain's map)

CHAPTER IV

FROM 1635 TO 1666

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER

MAP SHOWING LA TOUR'S POSSESSIONS IN ACADIA

CARDINAL RICHELIEU

MAP OF ANNAPOLIS BASIN

CHAPTER V

FROM 1635 TO 1650

MADAME DE LA PELTRIE (After a picture in the Ursuline Convent, Quebec)

PIERRE LE JEUNE

GEORGIAN BAY

BRÉBEUF

REMNANTS OF WALLS OF FORT ST. MARY ON CHRISTIAN ISLAND IN 1891

MAP OF THE GREAT LAKES Showing the territory of the Jesuit Huron missions

CHAPTER VI

FROM 1650 TO 1672

A CANADIAN IN SNOWSHOES (After La Potherie)

SAUSON'S MAP, 1656

TITLE-PAGE—JESUIT RELATION OF 1662–1663

THE JESUIT MAP OF LAKE SUPERIOR (From the Relation of 1670–1671)

Charles II

CHAPTER VII

FROM 1672 TO 1688

PLAN OF MONTREAL IN 1672

LA SALLE'S HOUSE NEAR MONTREAL

KITCHEN, CHÂTEAU DE RAMEZAY, MONTREAL

LAVAL (After the portrait in Laval University, Quebec)

A MAP IN THE RELATION OF 1662–1663 (This map includes Lake Ontario and the Iroquois Country. It shows the relative positions of the Five Nations and Fort d'Orange (Albany). It also gives plans of the forts on the Richelieu and shows their location)

GALINÉE'S MAP OF THE GREAT LAKES, 1669 (The next oldest chart to that of Champlain)

ROBERT DE LA SALLE

OLD PLAN OF FORT FRONTENAC

THE BUILDING OF THE GRIFFON (After the engraving in Father Hennepin's "Nouvelle Découverte," Amsterdam, 1704)

CHAPTER VIII

FROM 1679 TO 1713

PRINCE RUPERT (After the painting by Sir P. Lely)

MAP OF HUDSON BAY

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH MAP OF HUDSON BAY AND VICINITY

LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE

CHAPTER IX

FROM 1686 TO 1698

FORT FRONTENAC AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY

WILLIAM OF ORANGE

QUEBEC, 1689

FRENCH SOLDIER OF THE PERIOD

SIR WILLIAM PHIPS

COUNT FRONTENAC (From a statue at Quebec)

CASTLE ST. LOUIS

ATTACK ON QUEBEC, 1690

CASTLE ST. LOUIS, QUEBEC

PLAN OF QUEBEC (after Franquelin, 1683)

LANDING OF IBERVILLE'S MEN AT PORT NELSON (After La Potherie)

CAPTURE OF FORT NELSON BY THE FRENCH (After La Potherie)

CHAPTER X

FROM 1698 TO 1713

CONTEMPORARY MAP (after La Hontan, 1689) (The line shows the French idea of the territory under English control)

HERTEL DE ROUVILLE

CONTEMPORARY PLAN OF PORT ROYAL BASIN

PAUL MASCARENE

CHAPTER XI

FROM 1713 TO 1755

LA VÉRENDRYE'S FORTS AND THE RIVER OF THE WEST (After Jeffery's map, 1762)

MAP PUBLISHED IN PARIS IN 1752 SHOWING THE SUPPOSED SEA OF THE WEST

MAP SHOWING THE SUPPOSED SEA OF THE WEST, WITH APPROACHES TO THE MISSISSIPPI AND GREAT LAKES, PARIS, 1755

WILLIAM PEPPERRELL

RUINS OF THE FORTIFICATIONS AT LOUISBURG

CONTEMPORARY PLAN OF THE ATTACK ON LOUISBURG

FORT PRESENTATION

CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF OSWEGO

GOVERNOR DINWIDDIE OF VIRGINIA

TITLE-PAGE OF WASHINGTON'S JOURNAL

A SKETCH OF THE FIELD OF BATTLE AT BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT

PLAN OF FORT BEAUSÉJOUR

GENERAL MONCKTON

GENERAL JOHN WINSLOW

MAP OF ACADIA AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS, 1755

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON

CONTEMPORARY MAP OF THE REGION OF LAKE GEORGE

CHAPTER XII

FROM 1756 TO 1763

RUINS OF CHÂTEAU BIGOT

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, OTTAWA

QUEBEC, CHÂTEAU FRONTENAC AND THE CITADEL

THE EARL OF LOUDON

BOSCAWEN

THE SIEGE OF LOUISBURG (From a contemporary print)

AMHERST

THE COUNTRY ROUND TICONDEROGA

GENERAL JAMES WOLFE

BOUGAINVILLE

THE SITE OF QUEBEC AND THE GROUND OCCUPIED DURING THE SIEGE OF 1759

LOUIS JOSEPH, MARQUIS DE MONTCALM

DEATH OF WOLFE (From the painting by Benjamin West)

CHAPTER XIII

FROM 1763 TO 1812

MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS

NORTH AMERICA AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH WARS, 1763

GENERAL MURRAY, FIRST GOVERNOR OF QUEBEC

SETTLEMENTS ON THE DETROIT RIVER

BOUQUET

RETURN OF THE ENGLISH CAPTIVES (From a contemporary print)

MONTREAL (From a contemporary print)

SAMUEL HEARNE

GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY

MAP OF QUEBEC DURING SIEGE OF CONGRESS TROOPS

SIR GUY CARLETON

BENEDICT ARNOLD

GENERAL HALDIMAND

JOSEPH BRANT

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SIMCOE

CHAPTER XIV

FROM 1812 TO 1820

CAPTAIN COOK

FORT CHURCHILL, AS IT WAS IN 1777

TOTEM POLES, BRITISH COLUMBIA

CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER

NOOTKA SOUND (From an engraving in Vancouver's journal)

FORT CHIPPEWYAN, ATHABASCA LAKE (From a recent photograph)

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE

CAUSE OF A PORTAGE

SIMON FRASER

ASTORIA IN 1813

MAP OF THE WEST COAST, SHOWING THE OGDEN AND ROSS EXPLORATIONS

GENERAL SIR JAMES HENRY CRAIG, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, 1807–1811

WILLIAM HULL

MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE MILITARY OPERATIONS ON THE DETROIT RIVER

MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE MILITARY OPERATIONS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER

GENERAL BROCK

BROCK MONUMENT, QUEENSTON HEIGHTS

YORK (TORONTO) HARBOR

FITZGIBBONS

LAURA SECORD

TWO VIEWS OF THE BATTLE ON LAKE ERIE (From prints published in 1815)

TECUMSEH

DE SALABERRY

SIR GORDON DRUMMOND

MONUMENT AT LUNDY'S LANE

CHAPTER XV

FROM 1812 TO 1846

SELKIRK

NELSON AND HAYES RIVERS (From Robson)

FORT GARRY, RED RIVER SETTLEMENT

FORT DOUGLAS

SKETCH OF THE CITY OF WINNIPEG, SHOWING THE SITES OF THE EARLY FORTS

RED RIVER SETTLEMENT, 1816–1820

MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE MASSACRE OF SEVEN OAKS

TRACKING ON ATHABASCA RIVER

PLANS OF YORK AND PRINCE OF WALES FORTS

SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, GOVERNOR OF HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, 1820

JOHN MCLOUGHLIN

CHAPTER XVI

FROM 1820 TO 1867

SIR JOHN SHERBROOKE, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, 1816–1818

THE FOURTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, 1818–1819

WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE

ALLAN McNAB

LOUIS J. PAPINEAU

SIR JOHN COLBORNE, GOVERNOR OF CANADA, 1838–1841

LORD DURHAM, SPECIAL COMMISSIONER TO CANADA, 1838

JOHN A. MACDONALD

FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION, 1867. (From the painting by Robert Hariss)

INDEX

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Agnes C. Laut

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

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But it would be a mistake to conclude that Canada's nation builders consisted entirely of poor people. The race movement has not been a leaderless mob. Princes, nobles, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, were the pathfinders who blazed the trail to Canada. Glory, pure and simple, was the aim that lured the first comers across the trackless seas. Adventurous young aristocrats, members of the Old Order, led the first nation builders to America, and, all unconscious of destiny, laid the foundations of the New Order. The story of their adventures and work is the history of Canada.

It is a new experience in the world's history, this race movement that has built up the United States and is now building up Canada. Other great race movements have been a tearing down of high places, the upward scramble of one class on the backs of the deposed class. Instead of leveling down, Canada's nation building is leveling up.

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