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women, children,
clerks, farmers' help, domestic help,--classes who pay no taxes but the
indirect duty on clothes they wear and food they eat. This practically
means that the billion-dollar burden of making the ideal of
Confederation into a reality by building railroads and canals was borne
by 600,000 people, which means again a large quota per man to the
public treasury. People forget that you can't take more out of the public
treasury 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.