Book/Printed Material Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
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- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 2 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, Class JEixmci, Book. B Gopightl^»_
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 3 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 4
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 4 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 5 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 6 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
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- Date: 1905
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- Date: 1905
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- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 9 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, OLD FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BY JAMES DOUGLAS, LL.D. THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY 1905 All rights reserved
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 10 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, Copyright, 1905, by James Douglas Two O0PI6S iiecttv»xj SEPn 14 1905 /26 2^ 3
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 11 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, PREFACE. A large library always reminds me painfully of a grave- yard, and the rows of neglected books on its shelves of grave- stones. They merely, in most instances, perpetuate the names...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 12 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, copy maps from his interesting- history of the Parish of St. Foy, but even lending me the block of the Portrait of Com- mander Sillery; Colonel Neilson for supplying more than one...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 13 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, CHAPTER I. Europe in America, or Old France and Old England in New France and New England* The undignified scramble in which the great powers of the world are now engaged for...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 14 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 8 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. commerce a new spirit, as irresistibly progressive as that with which the discovery of printing had reanimated the intellectual life of Europe. Just at this juncture...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 15 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, AX AGE OF GREAT NAVIGATORS. 9 his own and others observation. Nevertheless, the very persistency of the fallacy stimulated the adventurers who, in vessels no larger than schooners and with mere handfuls...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 16 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 10 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. parallel in the history of the world. In our own day, with steam, electricity, and a host of mechanical appliances and means at our command, with...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 17 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, THE REVIVAL OF LETTERS. II The revival of learning had, in Southern Europe, exalted literature and art to the position religion had previously held, and shaken men s faith in the Christian...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 18 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 14 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. tudes, were the direct agents of three European powers Spain, Portugal, and France. The EngHsh colonists who followed were not sent forth by their Government, but...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 19 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, THE AWAKENING OF FRANCE. 15 if not his seamanship, won for him the honor of conferring his name on the New Continent. These tempting tropical lands, whose luxuriant vegetation fired the imagination...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 20 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, l6 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. tiguous territory, and creating a French nation. Unfortunately, their ambitions phmged them into a succession of ItaHan wars, which strained their resources almost to the breaking...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 21 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES. 17 on the colonial stock, and even transferred to the forests of Canada all that remained of the feudal customs and land tenure. Her colonial policy was to...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 22 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, l8 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. soon as European control was thrown off, and the American communities might have shaped out for themselves even more distinct types of political and social life...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 23 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, CHAPTER II. The Unsuccessful Attempt to Found the Quebec Colony Under Cartier and RobervaL Cartier s First Voyage. Though Cortereal s and Cabot s reports on the sterile north had not attracted...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 24 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 20 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. year after year, for decades past, struck fearlessly out into the angry Atlantic had tossed about while fishing on the banks, and, like their descendants of...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 25 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s first voyage. 21 he had seen the Gulf expand beyond the range of sight within the Straits for this sea of undefined limits Verrazzano had laid down on his map,...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 26 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 22 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. and Vice Admiral of France, had administered an oath to the captain, saihng masters and sailors, binding them to comport themselves as true and faithful men...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 27 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
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Image 28 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century,
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- Date: 1905
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Image 29 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 23 shore, called Honguedo, probably Gaspe Basin. The youthful natives played a notable part in Cartier s second voyage, and it was probably from their information that he...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 30 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 24 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Spanish adventurers far to the South, and now tinctured all Car- tier s theories. Columbus before he died may have doubted whether America was part of...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 31 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 25 in honor of the saint day the St. Croix. His three ships were small craft, and were manned by crews of seventy-five men, the very signatures of...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 32 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 26 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Cartier sought. That this was the scene of his first winter s suf- fering and disappointment is by some supposed to be confirmed by the finding,...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 33 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 27 its homeward voyage to Old France. The temptation may have been strong, but the enthusiasm of the explorer and the resolu- tion of the commander not to...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 34 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 28 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. returning with the Terreneuvais, some weeks after their own ar- rival in France, for it is the wind of St. Frangois (Oct. 4th) that wafts them...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 35 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 29 The next day, the i6th of September, Cartier and his crew were busy making the two larger ships safe within the harbor and river, the smallest being...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 36 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 30 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. from the fort, and he ordered mass to be said the following Sun- day, when all who could go, both sound and sick, went in proces-...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 37 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 31 of his description of the upper river confirms the honesty of the narrative of the whole voyage and attests his powers of judicious observation. Both banks of...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 38 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 32 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. that their companions had not been molested. They then returned to Stadacona, stopping only to explore the St. Mau- rice, which they thought might lead them...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 39 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, cartier s second voyage. 33 description of their stockades and lodges as that which enabled us to identify the Hochelaga Indians as a branch of the Huron stock. He dilates on their...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905
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Image 40 of Old France in the New World; Quebec in the seventeenth century, 34 QUEBEC IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. fact that the warning he received of the suspected treachery of Donnecana was given by the chief of the neighboring vil- lage of Hogauchenda. Where that...
- Contributor: Douglas, James
- Date: 1905