The History of Canada: From Its First Discovery to the Present TimeMcMullen & Company, 1868 - 613 pages |
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... passed over in producing results , which are now exceeded by a single backwoodsman in as many days . This duty devolved on the men , who only performed it when absolutely necessary to their subsistence , after they had exhausted the ...
... passed over in producing results , which are now exceeded by a single backwoodsman in as many days . This duty devolved on the men , who only performed it when absolutely necessary to their subsistence , after they had exhausted the ...
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... passed away , and flourishing cities , and towns and villages , and thousands of happy homesteads occupy those districts where they chased the deer and trapped the beaver in the silent depths of the primeval forest . Instead of the war ...
... passed away , and flourishing cities , and towns and villages , and thousands of happy homesteads occupy those districts where they chased the deer and trapped the beaver in the silent depths of the primeval forest . Instead of the war ...
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... room for regret that the possession of her soil has been transferred to the Anglo- Saxon race , and that the rule of the fierce Indian has for ever passed away . THE HISTORY OF CANADA . CHAPTER I. ORE than three Introduction . xxxi.
... room for regret that the possession of her soil has been transferred to the Anglo- Saxon race , and that the rule of the fierce Indian has for ever passed away . THE HISTORY OF CANADA . CHAPTER I. ORE than three Introduction . xxxi.
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... passed through the straits of Belleisle , entered the Gulf of St Lawrence , and landed at Gaspe ; where , on the 24th of July , he erected a cross , surmounted by a fleur - de - lys , to commemorate his advent on the coast . A friendly ...
... passed through the straits of Belleisle , entered the Gulf of St Lawrence , and landed at Gaspe ; where , on the 24th of July , he erected a cross , surmounted by a fleur - de - lys , to commemorate his advent on the coast . A friendly ...
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... passed a most uncomfortable winter . During the ensuing summer he occupied himself in examining the country in every direction , and in searching for gold , but of which he only pro- cured a few trifling specimens in the beds of some ...
... passed a most uncomfortable winter . During the ensuing summer he occupied himself in examining the country in every direction , and in searching for gold , but of which he only pro- cured a few trifling specimens in the beds of some ...
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