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When Leif, son of Earl Eric, the Red, came down from Greenland with his Viking crew, which of his bearded seamen in Arctic furs leaned over the dragon prow for sight of the lone new land, fresh as if washed by the dews of earth's first morning? Was it Thorwald, Leif's brother,...
Hearne surrenders--Cook on the west coast--Vancouver on Pacific--Discovery of Mackenzie River--Across to the Pacific--A smash in bad rapids--Down Fraser River--Cause of war--The...
13. Chapter 13English law and Quebec--French rights guarded--Pontiac's war--Siege of Detroit--Fight at Bloody Run--Michilimackinac falls--How Bouquet wins victory--Return of captives--The ped...
16. Chapter 16How the Family Compact worked--The old order changeth--"Loyalty cry"--Gourley driven mad--Richmond's tragic death--Patriots of the plow--Defeat of patriots--Duncombe's escape--E...
12. Chapter 12Bigot at Quebec--New France on verge of ruin--Bigot's vampires suck country's lifeblood--Scene on lake--Massacre at Fort William Henry--Louisburg besieged--Surrender of famous f...
11. Chapter 11La Vérendrye's adventuring to the West--Adventurers reach Lake Winnipeg--From Assiniboine to Missouri--Intrigue with Indians--The building of Louisburg--The siege of the great f...
15. Chapter 15Selkirk's colony--Troubles on passage--Winter on the bay--First winter on Red River--First conflict--Nor'westers rally to defense--The storm gathers--The Nor'westers victorious-...
9. Chapter 9War with the Iroquois--The year of the massacre--Frontenac returns--The heroine of Verchères--Indian raid and counter-raid--Massacre and Schenectady--The massacre at Fort Loyal-...
7. Chapter 7The fur fairs of Montreal--Customs of people--Shiploads of brides--The Iroquois and De Tracy--Who first found Ontario?--Through western Ontario--Up the Great Lakes--Marquette an...
5. Chapter 5Mystics come to Canada--A city built of dreams--First night at Montreal--Maisonneuve fights raiders--Le Jeune joins the hunters--Brébeuf goes to Lake Huron--Life at the Huron mi...
6. Chapter 6Radisson captured by Iroquois--Radisson escapes--At Onandaga--How the French were saved--Word of the western land--Westward bound--Dollard's Heroes--The fight at the Long Sault-...
1. Chapter 1When Leif, son of Earl Eric, the Red, came down from Greenland with his Viking crew, which of his bearded seamen in Arctic furs leaned over the dragon prow for sight of the lone...
3. Chapter 3Argall of Virginia attacks the French--Champlain on the St. Lawrence--Champlain and the Iroquois--Champlain explores the Ottawa--Champlain with the Indians--Discovery of the Gre...
8. Chapter 8Before leaving for France, Jean Talon, the Intendant, had set another exploration in motion. English trade was now in full sway on Hudson Bay. In possession of the Mississippi,...
10. Chapter 10While Frontenac was striking terror into the heart of New England with his French Canadian bushrovers, the life of the people went on in the same grooves. Spite of a dozen raids...
2. Chapter 2Though my Lord Roberval fails, the French fishing vessels continue to bound over the billows of the Atlantic to the New World. By 1578 there are a hundred and fifty French fishi...
4. Chapter 4When Port Royal fell before Argall, it will be remembered, young Biencourt took to the woods with his French bush lopers and Indian followers of Nova Scotia. The farms and fort...