The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton docx

... or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton Author: William Wood Release Date: November 11, 2003 [EBook #10044] The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle ... as well as the head of Canada at bay. The exultation of the British more than matched the disappointment of the Americans. Thomas Ainslie,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... Canada alone, but in reality a number of the tribes of the plains, like the well-known Apaches, as well as the Hupas of California and the Navahos, belong to the Athapascans. In Canada, the Athapascans ... into a passage leading to China. But after the discovery of the North Pacific ocean and Bering Strait the idea that America was part of Asia, that the na...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... had penetrated along the easy pathway of the plains. South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are broken, but occur again in the Orinoco region of South America ... hollow and the ridges of Africa and Australia on either hand. The last of the four sides contains the Atlantic Ocean and is bounded by Africa and Europe on one hand an...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... the Governor-General of Acadia or Nova Scotia as lieutenant of the region east of the St. Croix, and another, Charles de Menou, Sieur d'Aulnay-Charnisé, as lieutenant of the region between the St. Croix and ... large part to the mother country. She established councils and committees of trade and plantations, and, by the seizure of New Netherland in 1664 and th...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... proved a warning. To the average Frenchman of the sixteenth century Canada meant what it afterwards meant to Sully and Voltaire. It was a tract of snow; a land of barbarians, bears, and beavers. The ... Hence Acadia remained separate from the Laurentian valley, which was the heart of Canada although Acadia and Canada combined to form New France. Of these two sister d...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... complicated. The French-Canadian members of the Assembly, having taken great pains to acquaint themselves with the law and custom of the British constitution, had awakened to the fact that they ... down the street; they had shaken each other by the hand, and had regretted that there were not more dead. The blame for the 'massacre' was laid at the door of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... possession of Andaraque, and of all the country of the Mohawks, in the name of the king. A cross was solemnly planted alongside a post bearing the king's coat of arms. Mass was celebrated and the ... Fremin and Pierron were living among the Mohawks; Father Bruyas with the Oneidas. In 1668 Father Fremin was sent to the Senecas, Father Milet to the O...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a prey for submarine attack. They therefore ... had served in armed merchantmen and who in times of nominal peace had fought the marauders of Europe or whipped the corsairs of Barbary in the Strait of Gibr...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... available the wonderful riches of the inland country, across the Appalachian barrier and around the Great Lakes, into which American pioneers had already made their way. Those immemorial pathways, ... looking at the nearest parallel in the facts of history, each of us may make his own guess. The airship appears now to be much farther advanced than the steamboat was for m...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20