Canada

From Quebec’s cliff-top terrace, the Union Jack flies above a city where English voices are lost amid those of a people who still speak the language of France. Below, the St. Lawrence carries the memory of empires that rose and fell along its banks.

In this late-nineteenth-century account, John George Bourinot follows Canada from the first French explorations of the St. Lawrence to the making of the Dominion in 1867. The story ranges from Acadia’s fishing grounds and the ruins of Louisbourg to the Great Lakes and the immense country beyond, shaped by Indigenous peoples, French and English settlers, missionaries, soldiers, and statesmen. Quebec stands at its heart: a place where former enemies share a monument, and two cultures meet on ground marked by conquest and ambition. How did this vast northern territory take its first steps toward becoming a nation?

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