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Canada: The Foundations of Its Future
Table of Contents
LIST OF MAPS
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. THE EMPTY CONTINENT
CHAPTER II. THE COLONIAL ERA. 1534-1713
CHAPTER III. BRITISH AMERICA AND FRENCH CANADA. 1713-1763
CHAPTER IV. THE FOUNDATION OF BRITISH CANADA. 1763-1815
CHAPTER V. THE MIDDLE PERIOD: SHIPS, COLONIES, COMMERCE—1815-1867
CHAPTER VI. THE NEW DOMINION STRUGGLING INTO LIFE. 1867-1878
CHAPTER VII. BETTER TIMES. 1879-1896
CHAPTER VIII. THE OPENING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—1896-1914
CHAPTER IX. CANADA AS A NATION
CHAPTER X. CANADA AS A FUTURE WORLD POWER
INDEX
THE AUTHOR
THE ARTISTS
THE PRINTER
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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For a few years there were many Vinland voyages. One leader, Thorfinn Karlsefni, tried to make real settlement (a.d. 1007), with a hundred and sixty men in his ships, with many of their wives, and with cattle. They built houses and traded with the savages and were there four years. At least one child was born in America, and christened Snorri, the first hundred-per-cent white American. Then came hardship and quarrels with the savages and the settlers learned for the first time the lurking danger of savage ambush in the woods, that darkens the annals of America. Karlsefni saw his people killed by savages who did not fight like men. Presently so many settlers were killed that the terror of it drove the rest away—back to God’s country, all bright ice and snow, and with no trees to shelter savages.
So that, except for the mention in the saga of odd journeys to the Labrador coast and to the mainland elsewhere for timber, was the end of Vinland. And presently the night fell on the Greenland settlement itself. We do not know how and why it ended. Transit and communication with Iceland seem to have grown less. After the year 1410 the record ends. The last known voyage from Greenland to Norway is dated in that year. When John Davis, the Elizabethan navigator, saw the coast in 1585, there was no sign of any habitation. When settlement was started again by missionaries in 1721, there was no population V. Stefansson, “Unsolved Mysteries of The Arctic” found but the native Eskimos. Of the Norsemen’s colony there remained nothing but ruined stone and scattered rubble; no record; no writing; and over part of it the eternal glacier of Greenland had made its burial of ice. We do not know how the settlement met its end. It may have been that the plague of the Black Death, which passed westward across Europe in that epoch, laid its hand on the little colony. It may be that food ran short and the settlers moved westward, to become long afterwards the “blond Eskimos” of Coronation Gulf. Perhaps the Eskimo fell on the settlement and wiped it out. Readers who wish to pursue the topic further may find it in the fascinating pages of Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s book, The Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic.
