{"product_id":"2940013874305","title":"THE CANADIAN DOMINION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II. THE FIGHT FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. THE UNION ERA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV. THE DAYS OF TRIAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. THE YEARS OF FULFILMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CANADIAN DOMINION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScarcely more than half a century has passed since the Dominion of\u003cbr\u003eCanada, in its present form, came into existence. But thrice that period\u003cbr\u003ehas elapsed since the fateful day when Montcalm and Wolfe laid down\u003cbr\u003etheir lives in battle on the Plains of Abraham, and the lands which now\u003cbr\u003ecomprise the Dominion finally passed from French hands and came under\u003cbr\u003eBritish rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Peace of Paris, which brought the Seven Years' War to a close in\u003cbr\u003e1763, marked the termination of the empire of France in the New World.\u003cbr\u003eOver the continent of North America, after that peace, only two flags\u003cbr\u003efloated, the red and yellow banner of Spain and the Union Jack of\u003cbr\u003eGreat Britain. Of these the Union Jack held sway over by far the larger\u003cbr\u003edomain--over the vague territories about Hudson Bay, over the great\u003cbr\u003evalley of the St. Lawrence, and over all the lands lying east of the\u003cbr\u003eMississippi, save only New Orleans. To whom it would fall to develop\u003cbr\u003ethis vast claim, what mighty empires would be carved out of the\u003cbr\u003ewilderness, where the boundary lines would run between the nations yet\u003cbr\u003eto be, were secrets the future held. Yet in retrospect it is now\u003cbr\u003eclear that in solving these questions the Peace of Paris played no\u003cbr\u003einconsiderable part. By removing from the American colonies the menace\u003cbr\u003eof French aggression from the north it relieved them of a sense of\u003cbr\u003edependence on the mother country and so made possible the birth of a new\u003cbr\u003enation in the United States. At the same time, in the northern half of\u003cbr\u003ethe continent, it made possible that other experiment in democracy, in\u003cbr\u003ethe union of diverse races, in international neighborliness, and in\u003cbr\u003ethe reconciliation of empire with liberty, which Canada presents to the\u003cbr\u003ewhole world, and especially to her elder sister in freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1763 the territories which later were to make up the Dominion of\u003cbr\u003eCanada were divided roughly into three parts. These parts had little or\u003cbr\u003enothing in common. They shared together neither traditions of suffering\u003cbr\u003eor glory nor ties of blood or trade. Acadia, or Nova Scotia, by the\u003cbr\u003eAtlantic, was an old French colony, now British for over a generation.\u003cbr\u003eCanada, or Quebec, on the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, with seventy\u003cbr\u003ethousand French habitants and a few hundred English camp followers,\u003cbr\u003ehad just passed under the British flag. West and north lay the vaguely\u003cbr\u003eoutlined domains of the Hudson's Bay Company, where the red man and the\u003cbr\u003ebuffalo still reigned supreme and almost unchallenged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old colony of Acadia, save only the island outliers, Cape Breton\u003cbr\u003eand Prince Edward Island, now ceded by the Peace of Paris, had been\u003cbr\u003ein British hands since 1713. It was not, however, until 1749 that any\u003cbr\u003econcerted effort had been made at a settlement of this region. The\u003cbr\u003emenace from the mighty fortress which the French were rebuilding at that\u003cbr\u003etime at Louisbourg, in Cape Breton, and the hostility of the restless\u003cbr\u003eAcadians or old French settlers on the mainland, had compelled action\u003cbr\u003eand the British Government departed from its usual policy of laissez\u003cbr\u003efaire in matters of emigration. Twenty-five hundred English settlers\u003cbr\u003ewere brought out to found and hold the town and fort of Halifax. Nearly\u003cbr\u003eas many Germans were planted in Lunenburg, where their descendants\u003cbr\u003eflourish to this day. Then the hapless Acadians were driven into\u003cbr\u003eexile and into the room they left, New Englanders of strictest Puritan\u003cbr\u003eancestry came, on their own initiative, and built up new communities\u003cbr\u003elike those of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Other waves\u003cbr\u003eof voluntary immigration followed--Ulster Presbyterians, driven out by\u003cbr\u003ethe attempt of England to crush the Irish woolen manufacture, and,\u003cbr\u003estill later, Highlanders, Roman Catholic and Presbyterian, who soon made\u003cbr\u003eGaelic the prevailing tongue of the easternmost counties. By 1767 the\u003cbr\u003ecolony of Nova Scotia, which then included all Acadia, north and east of\u003cbr\u003eMaine, had a prosperous population of some seven thousand Americans,\u003cbr\u003etwo thousand Irish, two thousand Germans, barely a thousand English,\u003cbr\u003eand well over a thousand surviving Acadian French. In short, this\u003cbr\u003enorthernmost of the Atlantic colonies appeared to be fast on the way\u003cbr\u003eto become a part of New England. It was chiefly New Englanders who had\u003cbr\u003epeopled it, and it was with New England that for many a year its whole\u003cbr\u003esocial and commercial intercourse was carried on. It was no accident\u003cbr\u003ethat Nova Scotia later produced the first Yankee humorist, \"Sam Slick.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069223420144,"sku":"2940013874305","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013874305_p0.jpg?v=1763596469","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013874305","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}