History of Canada: From the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union Year (1840-1) |
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Abenaquis aborigines Acadia afterwards Agniers Algonquins allies America arms arrived attack authority became bishop British Canada Canadian cantons Cartier cause Champlain charged chief civil clergy Colbert colonists colony command court d'Avaugour D'Iberville Denonville Dongan enemies England English erected establishment Europe expedition favourable Five Nations formed France French Frontenac governor governor-general hostilities Hudson's Bay Huguenots Hurons Indians inhabitants intendant Iroquois Iroquois confederation island Jacques Cartier Jesuits king labour Lake Lake Huron Lake Ontario land latter Laurentian valley Laval Lawrence Louis XIV Mésy missionaries Mississippi Montreal native Newfoundland North obtained Paris party passed peace peltry Père persons population Port-Royal possession prisoners province Quebec race reached Recollets regions returned river St Roberval royal sail Sault St savages seigneurs sent settlement ships soon sovereign council spirit Tadoussac taken Talon territory tion took trade traffic treaty tribes Trois-Rivières vessels voyage warriors
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Page 4 - scapes i' the imminent, deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history, Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven. It was my hint to speak, such was the process ; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 316 - Calvert deserves to be ranked among the most wise and benevolent lawgivers of all ages. He was the first in the history of the Christian world to seek for religious security and peace by the practice of justice 279 and not by the exercise of power...
Page 317 - ... the exercise of power; to plan the establishment of popular institutions with the enjoyment of liberty of conscience ; to advance the career of civilization by recognizing the rightful equality of all Christian sects. The asylum of papists was the spot, where, in a remote corner of the world, on the banks of rivers, which, as yet, had hardly been explored, the mild forbearance of a proprietary adopted religious freedom as the basis of the state.
Page 120 - Brandt, a most Interesting and intelligent youth, came over to England, and I formed an acquaintance with him, on which I still look back with pleasure. He appealed to my sense of honor and justice, on his own part and on that of his ulster, to retract the unfair aspersions which, unconscious of their unfairness, I had cast on his father's memory.
Page 306 - ... wrath, almost unchecked, upon the fairest region of Canada, and did not retire thence till about mid-October. The Governor- General having sent a party of observation to assure himself of the enemy having decamped, this detachment observed a canoe on the Lake of the Two Mountains, bearing twenty-two of the retiring Iroquois. The Canadians, who were of about the same number, embarked in two boats and, nearing the savages, coolly received their fire; but in returning the discharge, each singled...
Page 307 - October 18th, at 8 PM, accompanied by De Callieres, amid the heartiest demonstrations of popular welcome. The public functionaries and armed citizens in waiting, with torch-bearers, escorted him through the city, which was spontaneously illuminated, to his quarters. His return was hailed by all, but by none more than the Jesuits, who had, in fact for years before, labored to obtain his recall.
Page 312 - When you send again, I entreat you rather send but thirty carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, fishermen, blacksmiths, masons, and diggers up of trees...
Page 302 - ... who adopted the policy of his predecessor so far as regarded the aborigines if in no other respect, not only fomented the deadly enmity of the Iroquois for the Canadians, but tried to detach the Abenaquis from their alliance with the French, but without effect in their case ; for this people honoured the countrymen of the missionaries who had made the gospel known to them, and their nation became a living barrier to New France on that side, which no force sent from New England could surmount...
Page 146 - The war with the Iroquois has dried up all sources of prosperity. The beaver are allowed to build their dams in peace, none being able or willing to molest them. Crowds of Hurons no longer descend from their country with furs for trading. The Algonquin country is dispeopled; and the nations beyond it are retiring further away still, fearing the musketry of the Iroquois.
Page 358 - Mohawk warrior, that all the power of man could not extort the least expression of suffering from his lips, and that it was ample consolation to him to reflect that he had made many Frenchmen suffer the same pangs that he must now himself undergo. When attached to the stake, he looked round on his executioners, their instruments of torture, and the assembled multitude of spectators, with all the complacency of heroic fortitude • and, after enduring for some hours, with composed mien and triumphant...