North America local history
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The Peace of Roaring RiverThe Peace of Roaring RiverTo the village of Carcajou came a young man in the spring. The last patches of snow were disappearing from under the protecting fronds of trees bursting into new leaf. From the surface of the lakes the heavy ice had...
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The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of FrontenacThe Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of Frontenac The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed...
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The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of ChamplainThe Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain Champlain, Samuel de. Explorer, geographer, and colonizer. Born in 1567 at Brouage, a village on the Bay of Biscay. Belonged by parentage to the lesser gentry of Saintonge. In boyhood became imbued with a love...
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Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his SonsPathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons Canada has had many brave sons, but none braver than Pierre Gaultier de La Vrendrye, who gave all that he had, including his life, for the glory and welfare of his...
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Westward with the Prince of WalesWestward with the Prince of Wales [Transcriber's note: This book is an account by a British journalist of the cross-Canada tour, by train, in 1919, of Edward VIII, British Prince of Wales. In 1936, Edward abdicated from the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson,...
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The Red River ColonyThe Red River Colony - A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba When the Ranger stole into the firth of Solway she carried an exultant crew. From the cliffs of Cumberland she might have been mistaken for a trading bark, lined and crusted by...
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The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada RebellionThe 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion The manuscript for this little book, written by me in French, was handed over for translation to Mr Stewart Wallace. The result as here presented is therefore a joint product. Mr Wallace, himself...
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The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the DominionThe Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion The sources of the Canadian Dominion must be sought in the period immediately following the American Revolution. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris granted independence to the Thirteen Colonies. Their vast territories,...
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Pioneers of the Pacific CoastPioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain...
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The Cariboo TrailThe Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia Early in 1849 the sleepy quiet of Victoria, Vancouver Island, was disturbed by the arrival of straggling groups of ragged nondescript wanderers, who were neither trappers nor settlers. They carried blanket packs...
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In Times Like TheseIn Times Like These Who answers all arguments by saying, "Woman's place is the home" and, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," and even sometimes flashes out with the brilliant retort, "It would suit those women better to stay at home...
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The Harbor of DoubtThe Harbor of DoubtLet them think what they like. If I had died I would have been a hero; because I lived I suppose there is nothing in the history of crime that I have not committed. Young Captain Code Schofield sprang out of...
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Aztec LandAztec LandHaving resolved to visit Mexico, the question first to be considered was how to do so in the most advantageous manner. Repairing to the office of Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb, in Boston, after a brief consultation with those experienced organizers of travel, the...
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The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and SunshineThe Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and SunshineIn the shade of Pedro Vijils little brown adobe on the Granados rancho, a horseman squatted to repair a broken cinch with strips of rawhide, while his horsea strong dappled roan with a...
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Prehistoric Structures of Central America: Who Erected Them?Prehistoric Structures of Central America: Who Erected Them?It was not a long period after 1492, when the great Italian navigator with his Spanish crew made their first discoveries upon the central portion of America, that the Europeans, who had followed the footsteps of Christopher...
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Blake's BurdenBlake's Burden It was a fine morning and Mrs. Keith sat with a companion, enjoying the sunshine, near the end of Dufferin Avenue, which skirts the elevated ground above the city of Quebec. Behind her rose the Heights of Abraham where the dying Wolfe...
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Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, MexicoMammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico [Pg 34]University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson Volume 5, No. 4, pp. 3347, 1...
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From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigadeFrom the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigadeIn presenting this little work to the public the writer wishes to thank those of his fellow-officers and others who brought to his notice incidents that did not come under his personal observation....
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Treasure ValleyTreasure Valley Other years, by the time the mid-June days were come, the little brook that sang through John McIntyre's pasture-field had shrunk to a mere jeweled thread of golden pools and silver shallows, with here and there only the bleached pebbles to mark...
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The Road to FrontenacThe Road to FrontenacCaptain Daniel Menard leaned against the parapet at the outer edge of the citadel balcony. The sun was high, the air clear and still. Beneath him, at the foot of the cliff, nestled the Lower Town, a strip of shops and...
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