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Title: Canada: the Empire of the North
Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

Author: Agnes C. Laut

Release Date: December 14, 2006 [eBook #20110]

Language: English

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CANADA

THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTH

Being the Romantic Story of the
New Dominion's Growth from
Colony to Kingdom

by

AGNES C. LAUT

Author of "The Conquest of the Great North-West" "Lords of the North,"
Etc.

[Frontispiece: Map of Western Canada]

Boston and London
Ginn and Company, Publishers
1909
Copyright, 1909, by Agnes C. Laut
Entered at Stationers' Hall
All Rights Reserved

PREFACE

To re-create the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead
once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life's
great dramas again upon the stage of action,--frankly, this may not be
formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the present
day. Pictures of men and women, of moving throngs and heroic episodes,
stick faster in the mind than lists of governors and arguments on
treaties. Such pictures may not be history, but they breathe life into
the skeletons of the past.

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. The story
of that past has been told many times and in many volumes, with far
digressions on Louisiana and N