Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
“He told them of the river, whose mighty current gave Its freshness for a hundred leagues to ocean’s briny wave; He told them of the glorious scene presented to his sight What time he reared the cross and crown on Hochelaga’s height, And of the fortress cliff that keeps of Can...
“He told them of the river, whose mighty current gave Its freshness for a hundred leagues to ocean’s briny wave; He told them of the glorious scene presented to his sight What t...
2. CHAPTER II.“There are few chapters in history so full of romantic interest, so compelling in their demands for sympathy and admiration, as the record of the century and a half that began w...
3. CHAPTER III.“The first French followers of the river courses were devotees of a religion for the salvation of others, bearers of advancing banners for the glory of France, and lovers of nat...
4. CHAPTER IV.“The fertile plains of Texas, the vast basin of the Mississippi from its frozen springs to the sultry borders of the gulf; from the wooded ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare...
5. CHAPTER V.“If he had not had his faults, if he had not been as impulsive, as daring, as reckless, as inconstant, as improvident of the morrow as a savage or a child, he would not have acc...
6. CHAPTER VI.“The history of French America is far more picturesque than the history of British America in the period of 1608-1754. But the English were doing work more solid, valuable and p...
7. CHAPTER VII.We sometimes speak of the victory of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham and the subsequent surrender of Quebec as having involved the transfer of Canada or New France from the Frenc...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“My boatmen sit apart, Wolf-eyed, wolf-sinewed, stiller than the trees. Help me, O Lord, for very slow of heart And hard of faith are these. Cruel are they, yet Thy children. Fo...
9. CHAPTER IX.“Stripped to the waist, his copper-colored skin Red from the smouldering heat of hate within, Lean as a wolf in winter, fierce of mood— As all wild things that hunt for foes, or...
10. CHAPTER X.“I have passed the warden cities at the Eastern watergate, Where the hero and the martyr laid the cornerstone of State, The habitant, coureurs-des-bois, and hardy voyageur, Wher...
11. CHAPTER XI.“The original tillers of the soil in Lower Canada, who first assumed the title of ‘Habitants’ while holding their land under feudal tenure, would not accept any designation such...
12. CHAPTER XII.“The Black Wolf’s Breed: A Story of France in the Old World and the New happening in the Reign of Louis XIV.” Principal scene in Louisiana, and the main action is the capture by...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Behind him lay the gray Azores Behind the Gates of Hercules, Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said, “Now must we pray, For lo! t...