Canada
So far as our knowledge goes, it is almost a matter of certainty that Man originated in the Old World--in Asia possibly. Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the Ame...
I have already attempted to describe in the first chapter the ancient peopling of America from north-eastern Asia, but it might be useful if I gave here some description of the...
9. Chapter 9After 1763, when the two provinces of Canada were definitely ceded to Great Britain, the exploring energies of the Hudson's Bay Fur-trading Company revived. But before this rath...
4. Chapter 4From the first voyage of Cartier onwards, Canada was called intermittently New France, and its possibilities were not lost sight of by a few intelligent Frenchmen on account of...
11. Chapter 11It has been already mentioned that the conquest of Canada by the British led to a great increase in travel for the development of the fur trade. Previously, under the French, pe...
6. Chapter 6Before we continue to follow the adventures of the pioneers of British North America, I think--even if it seems wearisome and discursive--my readers would better understand this...
5. Chapter 5A very remarkable series of further explorations were carried out as the indirect result of Champlain's work. In 1610 he had allowed a French boy of about eighteen years of age,...
10. Chapter 10The first noteworthy explorer of the far north was SAMUEL HEARNE,[1] who had been mate of a vessel in the employ of the whale fishery of Hudson Bay. He entered the service of th...
2. Chapter 2Verrazano and Gomez, and probably the English captain, John Rut, had all sought for the opening of a strait of salt water--like Magellan's Straits in the far south--which should...
1. Chapter 1So far as our knowledge goes, it is almost a matter of certainty that Man originated in the Old World--in Asia possibly. Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history,...
12. Chapter 12The Spaniards of California had been aware in the middle of the eighteenth century that there was a big river entering the sea to the north of the savage country known as Oregon...
8. Chapter 8In a general way the discovery of the main features of the vast Canadian Dominion may be thus apportioned amongst the different European nations. First came the British, led by...
3. Chapter 3Except that the ships of Bristol still no doubt continued to resort to the banks of Newfoundland for fishing, and that even the captains of these ships were occasionally elected...