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A Popular History of the Dominion of Canada From the Discovery of America to the Present Time
A Popular History of the Dominion of Canada From the Discovery of America to the Present Time Author:William Henry Withrow General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: B. B. Russell Subjects: Canada History / Canada / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free t... more »rial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. THE WILDERNESS MISSIONS. The Huron Mission -- Brelictif, Laleniaut, Daniel, Davost -- Trials and Triumphs of the Missionaries -- The Mission of Stc. Marie -- Iroquois Massacre and Christian Martyrdom -- A Winter of Horrors -- Destruction of the Huron Mission, 1G48-1649 -- Iroquois Ravages -- The Onondaga Mission planted, 1636 -- A menaced Massacre -- Mission abandoned, 1053 -- A masterly Ruse -- Dulac des Ormeaux -- A brave Defence -- The Thermopylae of Canada -- D'Aillebonst, De Lauson, D'Argenson, D'Avaugour, successive Governors -- The AbbiS Laval, first Vicar Apostolic -- The Liquor Traffic -- Charter of the Hundred Associates annulled, 1663 -- Earthquakes. r 11 HE region between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, which J- is now a rich agricultural district, was, two centuries and a half tigo, the home of the numerous and powerful Huron nation of Indians. Much of this region is still covered with what seems to be a virgin forest, yet the plough and the axe of the pioneer often bring to light the relics of a former population, concerning whom local tradition is silent, and of whom the lingering red men of the present know nothing Yet in the pages of history live the records of this lost race, written with a fidelity and vigour that rehabilitate the past, and bring us face to face with this extinct nation. The forty annual volumes of Relations des Jesuites contain a minute and graphic account by men of scholastic training, keen insight, and cultivated powers of observation, of the daily life, the wars and confl...« less