Chapter I: Front Matter

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Our Little Canadian Cousin

THE

Little Cousin Series

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LIST OF TITLES

BY MARY HAZELTON WADE
(unless otherwise indicated)

=Our Little African Cousin=

=Our Little Alaskan Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

=Our Little Arabian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little Armenian Cousin=
By Constance F. Curlewis

=Our Little Australian Cousin=

=Our Little Brazilian Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

=Our Little Brown Cousin=

=Our Little Canadian Cousin=
By Elizabeth R. MacDonald

=Our Little Chinese Cousin=
By Isaac Taylor Headland

=Our Little Cuban Cousin=

=Our Little Dutch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little Egyptian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little English Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little Eskimo Cousin=

=Our Little French Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little German Cousin=

=Our Little Greek Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

=Our Little Hawaiian Cousin=

=Our Little Hindu Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little Indian Cousin=

=Our Little Irish Cousin=

=Our Little Italian Cousin=

=Our Little Japanese Cousin=

=Our Little Jewish Cousin=

=Our Little Korean Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike

=Our Little Mexican Cousin=
By Edward C. Butler

=Our Little Norwegian Cousin=

=Our Little Panama Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike

=Our Little Philippine Cousin=

=Our Little Porto Rican Cousin=

=Our Little Russian Cousin=

=Our Little Scotch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus

=Our Little Siamese Cousin=

=Our Little Spanish Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

=Our Little Swedish Cousin=
By Claire M. Coburn

=Our Little Swiss Cousin=

=Our Little Turkish Cousin=

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Our Little Canadian Cousin

By Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald

_Illustrated by_
L. J. Bridgman

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_Publishers_

_Copyright, 1904_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published July, 1904

Fifth Impression, June, 1908

Preface

IN "Our Little Canadian Cousin," my intention has been to tell, in a general way, although with a defined local setting, the story of Canadian home life. To Canadians, _home life_ means not merely sitting at a huge fireplace, or brewing and baking in a wide country kitchen, or dancing of an evening, or teaching, or sewing; but it means the great outdoor life--sleighing, skating, snow-shoeing, hunting, canoeing, and, above all, "camping out"--the joys that belong to a vast, uncrowded country, where there is "room to play."

This wide and beautiful Canadian Dominion possesses, of course, a great variety of climate and of scenery. To treat at all adequately of those things, or of the country's picturesque and romantic history, would require far more scope than is afforded by this one small story.

List of Illustrations

PAGE

"TWO CHILDREN SAT ON THE GRASS UNDER THE LILACS"
(_See page 2_) _Frontispiece_

FREDERICTON 22

IN THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDS 28

"THE TREE-CLAD SHORES WORE A FAIRY GLAMOUR" 47

"A GREAT BONFIRE WAS BUILT" 64

"NOTHING, DORA THOUGHT, COULD BE MORE BEAUTIFUL
THAN THOSE WOODS IN WINTER" 99

Our Little Canadian Cousin