PREFACE. THE chapters of this book represent lectures which were delivered recently in Ottawa before - the May Court Club. They contain no new mate rial, and use with freedom the works of others. At the same time historical facts can be employed in a large number of different combinations, and here the life of Canada during the Old RCgime is approached by a route which as yet seems not to - have been followed. The authors aim is to discuss various aspects of French colonisation, without at any point straying far from the ...
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PREFACE. THE chapters of this book represent lectures which were delivered recently in Ottawa before - the May Court Club. They contain no new mate rial, and use with freedom the works of others. At the same time historical facts can be employed in a large number of different combinations, and here the life of Canada during the Old RCgime is approached by a route which as yet seems not to - have been followed. The authors aim is to discuss various aspects of French colonisation, without at any point straying far from the concrete. To secure distinctness the examples have been drawn, chapter by chapter, from some one career. Or rather, a single personage has been made the representative of a class, and in considering the large subject with which he is connected, certain features of his experience are rendered prominent. But this method does not involve the exact portraiture of individuals, nor does it exclude minor figures from the field of the discussion. iii iv Preface One gives a hostage to fortune in publishing a volume which discloses his conception of what a popular lecture should attempt. But History does not exist simply for the benefit of the erudite, and, there are always some to whom a book is recommended by the absence of specific gravity. June wth, 1908. CONTENTS CHAPTER I Two Backgrounds, I. The Background of the Wilderness, 2. The Historical Background, 3. The Renaissance, 7. The Reformation, 10. France, 14. The Resources of France in the Seventeenth Century, 17. The Ascendency of France in the Seventeenth Century, 18. The Power of the King, 20. The French Aristocracy, 25. Henry IV., 27. Richelieu, 29. Colbert, 35. The Church in France, 36. Gal licanism, 38. New France andNew England, 40. Colonial Theory, 42. CHAPTER I1 The Love of Adventure, 46. The Appeal of America to Europe, 48. Voltaire on Canada, 51. The Wilderness, 52. The Indians, 53. The Motives of the Explorer, 58. Champlains Antecedents and Early Life, 60. Champlain in Acadia, 64. Champlain at Quebec, 66. The First Battle of the French with the Iroquois, 69. Champlains Expedition against the Onondagas, 73. Champlain and Vignau, 74. La Salle, 76. Champlain and La Salle, 77. The Dol lar Sign, 80. CHAPTER I11 The Attitude of the Roman Catholic towards Missions, 82. The Attitude of the Calvinist towards Missions, 83. St. Francis Xavier, 87. Biard and Mass6 at Port Royal, 88. The v vi Contents R6collets among the Hurons, go. The Jesuits among the Hurons, 91. Bdbeufs Personality, 92. Bhbeuf and Jogues, 93. The Jesuit Relations, 96. Brebeuf as a Writer, 98. The Destruction of the Hurons, 101. The Heroism of the Jesuits, 104. The Founding of Montreal, 105. Olier and Dauversihre, r 07. Maisonneuve, 109. The Sulpicians. 110. CHAPTER IV Recent French Books on Canada, I 14. The Tenacity of the French Colonist, 116. Colonists and Convicts, 117. The Monopoly of the Fur Trade. I 19. Louis HCbert in Acadia, 121. HBbert at Quebec, 124. H bertts Difficulties and Success, 125. RicheIieu and the Hundred Associates, 132. The Exclusion of the Huguenots, 134. The Seigniorial Rkgime, I 3 7. The Colonising Seigneur-Robert Giffard, 139. The cmsitaire and his Obligations, 142. The Sub division of a Seigniory, 146. The Carignan Regiment, 147. The Growth of Population, I 4 g. The coureur de bms, I 5 I. CHAPTER V Military Virtues of the French Canadian, 154. The Prestige of French Arms in the Seventeenth Century, r 55.Maisonneuve and the Iroquois, 156. Dollard at the Long Sault, 159. The Courage of the Colonist, 166. Early Conflicts of the English and French in America, 168. The Mission of Druillettes, 170. Dongan and Denonville, 172. King Williams War, 174...
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