tion>Agnes C. Laut
Canada: the Empire of the North
Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664613479
Table of Contents
[1]COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AREAS OF CANADA AND EUROPE
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF POPULATION IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
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 New England and the kingcraft of Europe. The trouble is, the story has not been told in one volume. Too much has been attempted. To include the story of New England wars and Louisiana's
