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than you put into it, that it is n't like an artesian well, self-supplied, and the truth is, at this period Canadians were paying more into the public treasury than they could afford,--more than the investment was bringing them in.

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. FROM 1000 TO 1600 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. FROM 1600 TO 1607 . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
III. FROM 1607 TO 1635 . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IV. FROM 1635 TO 1666 . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
V. FROM 1635 TO 1650 . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
VI. FROM 1650 TO 1672 . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
VII. FROM 1672 TO 1688 . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
VIII. FROM 1679 TO 1713 . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
IX. FROM 1686 TO 1698 . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
X. FROM 1698 TO 1713 . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
XI. FROM 1713 TO 1755 . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
XII. FROM 1756 TO 1763 . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
XIII. FROM 1763 TO 1812 . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
XIV. FROM 1812 TO 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
XV. FROM 1812 TO 1846 . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
XVI. FROM 1820 TO 1867 . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

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ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
PAGE
MAP OF WESTERN CANADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
VIKING SHIP RECENTLY DISCOVERED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 After a photograph of the Viking Ship at Sandefjord, Norway.
MAP SHOWING DIVISION OF THE NEW WORLD BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A TYPICAL "HOLE IN THE WALL" AT "KITTY VIDDY," NEAR ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 From a photograph.
SEBASTIAN CABOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 After the portrait attributed to Holbein.
JACQUES CARTIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 After the portrait at St. Malo, France, with signature.
WHERE THE FISHER HAMLETS NOW NESTLE, NEWFOUNDLAND . . . . . . 9 From a photograph.
ANCIENT HOCHELAGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 After a cut in the third volume of Ramusio's Raccolta, Venice, 1565.
THE "DAUPHIN MAP" OF CANADA, CIRCA 1543, SHOWING CARTIER'S DISCOVERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
QUEEN ELIZABETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 After the ermine portrait in Hatfield House, with signature.
THE BOYHOOD OF GILBERT AND RALEIGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 From the painting by Sir John Millais.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 After the print in Holland's Herwologia-Anglica, 1620.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 After the portrait in the possession of the Duchess of Dorset.
AT EASTERN ENTRANCE TO HUDSON STRAITS . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 From a photograph by Dominion Geological Survey.
HUDSON COAT OF ARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 From Lenox Collection, New York City.
THE FANTASTIC ROCKS OF GASPé . . . . . . . . . . . .