Chapter I: Preface

In the following pages is told the history of my native land, as a sagamore of the olden time might tell the legends of the past to the young braves of his tribe gathered round the lodge fire. Though primarily intended for youth, yet there is scarce any one of intelligence and spirit who may not find some entertainment in hearing of the doings of the valiant heroes, the bloodthirsty villains, the virtuous ladies who played their part in the Canadian drama, and then passed for ever away.

Elsewhere I have given the story of Hudson's Bay,[1] and what is recounted here of fur-traders and fur-trading forts owes much, as the reader will expect, to my former book.

[1] _The Great Fur Company_ 1899.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CARTIER UNFURLS THE FLAG OF THE LILIES

CHAPTER II

POUTRAINCOURT GOES FORTH TO ACADIA

CHAPTER III

OF THE DOINGS OF GALLANT CHAMPLAIN

CHAPTER IV

ROMANCE OF THE TWO DE LA TOURS

CHAPTER V

THE FOUNDING OF MONTREAL

CHAPTER VI

THE FURY OF THE IROQUOIS

CHAPTER VII

STRANGE DOINGS AT PORT ROYAL

CHAPTER VIII

THE COMING OF FRONTENAC

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CHAPTER IX

"QUEBEC FOR KING LOUIS"

CHAPTER X

KING LOUIS BUILDS A MIGHTY FORT

CHAPTER XI

HOW LOUISBURG SURRENDERED AND WAS GIVEN BACK

CHAPTER XII

THE ACADIANS ARE BANISHED FROM ACADIA

CHAPTER XIII

TERRIBLE FIGHTS OVER THE BORDER

CHAPTER XIV

HOW THE GALLANT WOLFE TOOK QUEBEC

CHAPTER XV

LEVIS AND THE NOBLES RETIRE TO OLD FRANCE

CHAPTER XVI

THE COMING OF THE LOYALISTS

CHAPTER XVII

HOW CANADA'S ENEMY WAS FOILED

CHAPTER XVIII

TRAITORS, REDCOATS, AND REDSKINS

INDEX

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Landing of the Loyalists, 1783 ... Frontispiece

Jacques Cartier and the Redskins

"The Order of a Good Time," 1606

De la Tour refuses to yield his Allegiance, 1630

Maisonneuve covering the Retreat of his Followers, 1644

Dollard strikes his Last Blow, 1658

"My Guns will give my Answer," Frontenac, 1690

Heroic Defence by Madeleine de Verchères and her Brothers, 1692

Wolfe's Army scaling the Cliff at Quebec, 1759

Laura Secord intercepted by the Mohawk Scouts

Meeting of the Nor'-Westers at Fort William, 1816

The Defeat of Louis Riel, Fish Creek, 1885.

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THE ROMANCE OF CANADA