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Title: The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation
Volume 1

Author: Charles Roger

Release Date: February 8, 2008 [EBook #24550]

Language: English

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"Entered according to Act of the Provincial Legislature, for the
Protection of Copy-rights, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, by P. SINCLAIR, Quebec, in the Office of the Registrar of
the Province of Canada."

THE RISE
OF
CANADA,
FROM
BARBARISM
TO
WEALTH AND CIVILISATION.

BY

CHARLES ROGER,
QUEBEC.

Una manus calamum teneat, manus altera ferrum,
Sic sis nominibus dignus utrinque tuis.

VOLUME I.

QUEBEC: PETER SINCLAIR.

Montreal, H. Ramsay and B. Dawson; Toronto, A. H. Armour & Co.; London,
C. W., Andrews & Coombe; Port Hope, James Ainsley; New York, H. Long &
Brothers, D. Appleton & Co., J. C. Francis; Boston, Little & Brown;
Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston; London, Trubner & Co.

1856.

ST. MICHEL & DARVEAU, JOB PRINTERS,
No. 3, Mountain Street.

TO

JOSEPH MORRIN, ESQUIRE, M. D.,

MAYOR OF QUEBEC,

This Volume

IS DEDICATED, AS THE ONLY MONUMENT, WHICH CAN BE RAISED
TO ACKNOWLEDGED WORTH,

BY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL

FRIEND AND SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

Quebec, December, 1855.

INDEX.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I.

Canada Discovered 4
Cartier's Arrival in the St. Lawrence 5
Commencement of the Fur Trade 6
Quebec Founded 7
Exploration of the Ottawa 8
The Cold--Lake Huron 9
Sixty White Inhabi