North America local history
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A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 - A NovelIt was near sunset, and the season was early summer. Every tree was in full leaf, but the foliage had still the exquisite freshness of its first tints, undimmed by dust or scorching heat. The grass was,...
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The Mound BuildersThe Mound BuildersOurs are the only mounds making up a distinct mound-region on Canadian soil. This comes to us as a part of the large inheritance which we who have migrated to Manitoba receive. No longer cribbed, cabined, and confined, we have in this...
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Le chasseur noirLe chasseur noirIl faisait tout fait nuit quand le chasseur arriva au lieu o il avait dress ses piges la nuit prcdente. C'tait un de ces sites pittoresques que l'on trouve seulement dans les chanes des montagnes Rocheuses. Des barrires presque infranchissables, de gigantesques...
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The Harbor MasterThe Harbor MasterThe English edition of this book is entitled "The Toll of the Tides," but the American publishers have preferred to retain the author's original title, "The Harbor Master." At the back of a deep cleft in the formidable cliffs, somewhere between Cape...
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Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer LifeTwo Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer LifeThe Publishers have extreme pleasure in placing this novel, by a new and promising native author, before the reading public of Canada. They will be greatly disappointed if it does not at once take its place among...
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The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's ColonistsThe Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of ManitobaThe present work tells the romantic story of the Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists in Manitoba, and is appropriate and timely in view of the Centennial celebration of this event which will be...
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Frank among the RancherosFrank among the Rancheros Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by R.W. CARROLL & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of Ohio. Copyright, 1896, by Charles A. Fosdick. "Pull...
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Oeuvres de ChamplainOeuvres de Champlain out ainsi qu'en la diversit des affaires du Monde chacune chose tend sa perfection, & la conservation de son estre, aussi d'autrepart l'homme se plaist aux choses diffrentes des autres pour quelque subject, ou pour le bien public, ou pour acqurir...
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Rod of the Lone PatrolRod of the Lone PatrolParson Dan chuckled several times as he sipped his hot cocoa before the fire. It was an open fire, and the flames licked around an old dry root which had been brought with other driftwood up from the shore. This...
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The Makers of Canada: Bishop LavalThe Makers of Canada: Bishop LavalIf, standing upon the threshold of the twentieth century, we cast a look behind us to note the road traversed, the victories gained by the great army of Christ, we discover everywhere marvels of abnegation and sacrifice; everywhere we...
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The Makers of Canada: ChamplainThe Makers of Canada: ChamplainIn undertaking to write a biography of Samuel Champlain, the founder of Quebec and the father of New France, our only design is to make somewhat better known the dominant characteristics of the life and achievements of a man whose...
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Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume IINotes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume II.Trip to Esquimaux BayGovernor's InstructionsMy Report to the CommitteeRecommend the Abandonment of Ungava SettlementSuccess of the Arctic Expedition conducted by Messrs. Dease and SimpsonReturn by Sea to Fort ChimoNarrowly escape Shipwreck in...
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A Lover in HomespunA Lover in Homespun - And Other StoriesOnesime Charest, farmer, of L'Orignal, was a happy man. As he drove through the quaint little French-Canadian village, on his way to the railway station, he was saluted by the villagers with much ceremony. Everyone knew perfectly...
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The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. GrenfellThe Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. GrenfellIn a land where there was no doctor and no school, and through an evil system of barter and trade the people were practically bound to serfdom, Doctor Wilfred T. Grenfell...
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A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861In spite of many pleasant summers spent at Murray Bay one had never thought of it as having a history. The place and its people seemed simple, untutored, new. Some of the...
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The Going of the White SwanThe Going of the White SwanThe father nodded, and then turned restlessly toward the door, as though expecting some one. The look was troubled, and the pipe he held was not alight, though he made a pretense of smoking. There was no reply yet,...
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Under Sealed OrdersUnder Sealed OrdersIt was evening and a late April wind was whipping down the valley. It swayed the tops of the tall pine and spruce trees as they shouldered up from the swift brook below. It tossed into driving spray the water of Break...
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The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and WonderThe Next of Kin: Those who Wait and WonderIt was a bleak day in November, with a thick, gray sky, and a great, noisy, blustering wind that had a knack of facing you, no matter which way you were going; a wind that would...
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Burned BridgesBurned BridgesLone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish pythona python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest...
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Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) - A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of MichoacanIn the course of my travels in Australia, and especially...
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