The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada pot

... 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 roamed over the ... Dawn of Canadian History: by Stephen Leacock The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salved the pride of England. The last year of the war was also a year of varying fortunes. In the far West a small body of Canadians and ... fellow trader, Mackay, and six Canadian voyageurs, he pushed up the Peace and the Parsnip, passed by way of the Fraser and the Blackwater to the Bella...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... 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

... 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 districts Canada was the more ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... 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

... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word ... beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advance of daring...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20