Category: History - American
The British possessions in North America consist of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Canada. Under the Government of Newfoundland is a section of the mainland coast which forms part of Labrador, extending from the straits of Belle Isle on the south to Cape Chudleigh on the north.
The British possessions in North America consist of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Canada. Under the Government of Newfoundland is a section of the mainland coast which forms...
3. CHAPTER IIThe history of Canada has been so often and so well told, that an attempt simply to reproduce the narrative would be worse than superfluous. The scheme of the present series is,...
4. CHAPTER IIITo trade and to colonize through the medium of Chartered Companies has been characteristic of the nations of Northern Europe. Chartered Companies have not been peculiar to Engla...
5. CHAPTER IVAfter Quebec had been in 1632 given back to France, the English on the Atlantic coast, and the French on the St. Lawrence, for many years came little into contact with each othe...
6. CHAPTER VWhat were the French and English fighting for in North America? The answer seems obvious, for North America itself. But what did North America mean? It had a different meaning t...
7. CHAPTER VIIn the last chapter the main stream of Canadian history has been followed down to the Treaty of Utrecht. New France was essentially the colony on the St. Lawrence; but with the...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe Treaty of Utrecht provided that 'the island called Cape Breton, as also all others both in the mouth of the river of St. Lawrence and in the gulf of the same name, shall her...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe fifteen years from the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 to the Peace of Paris in 1763 include the most stirring and picturesque times in the history of Canada. They were mas...
10. CHAPTER IXIn May, 1756, Great Britain declared war against France. In June, France declared war against Great Britain. The war between these two nations formed part of the Seven Years' Wa...
11. CHAPTER XWhen Wolfe reached England from Louisbourg in November, 1758, he wrote to Pitt offering himself for further service in America, 'and particularly in the river St. Lawrence, if a...
12. Letter 328), he writes, 'We have by no means made so good a bargainwith France (i.e. as with Spain), for in truth what do we get by it except Canada, with a very proper boundary of the river Mississippi, and that is all? As for the restrictions...
13. CHAPTER XIIn order to sum up the story of New France, it is proposed in the present chapter to try to answer the four following questions. What effect had geography on the history of Cana...