[ CHAPTER XVII. 1663-1763. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. ]
[ CHAPTER XVIII. 1663-1702. THE MISSIONS. THE BRANDY QUESTION. ]
[ CHAPTER XIX. 1663-1763. PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. ]
[ CHAPTER XX. 1640-1763. MORALS AND MANNERS. ]
[ CHAPTER XXI. 1663-1763. CANADIAN ABSOLUTISM. ]
PREFACE.
“The physiognomy of a government,” says De Tocqueville, “can best be judged in its colonies, for there its characteristic traits usually appear larger and more distinct. When I wish to judge of the spirit and the faults of the administration of Louis XIV., I must go to Canada. Its deformity is there seen as through a microscope.”