Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1903. Reprinted November, 1903.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

page
[Note] xvii
[Prelude] xix
CHAPTER I[Early Voyages] 1
CHAPTER II[The Era of Champlain] 19
CHAPTER III[The Heroic Age of New France] 44
CHAPTER IV[Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam] 66
CHAPTER V[Royal Government] 85
CHAPTER VI[The Noblesse and the People] 95
CHAPTER VII[Frontenac and La Salle] 110
CHAPTER VIII[Fire, Massacre, and Siege] 134
CHAPTER IX[The Close of the Century] 159
CHAPTER X[Border Warfare] 175
CHAPTER XI[The Beginning of the End] 187
CHAPTER XII[Life under the Ancien Régime] 218
CHAPTER XIII[During the Seven Years' War] 246
CHAPTER XIV[Here died Wolfe Victorious] 268
CHAPTER XV[Murray and De Lévis] 299
CHAPTER XVI[The First Years of British Rule] 325
CHAPTER XVII[The Fifth Siege] 342
CHAPTER XVIII[Social and Political Progress] 364
CHAPTER XIX[The Story of the Great Trading Companies] 394
CHAPTER XX[The New Century] 422
CHAPTER XXI[The Modern Period] 443
[Appendices] 473
[Index] 479

LIST OF PLATES

Major-General James WolfeFrontispiece
face page
François-Xavier de Laval16
Cardinal de Richelieu48
The Earl of Chatham187
General the Marquis Montcalm271
General Sir Jeffrey Amherst282
Admiral Earl St. Vincent294
General Gage301
The Hon. Robert Monckton307
[1]General Sir A. P. Irving317
General Townshend327
Sir James Henry Craig342
Sir John Cope Sherbrooke355
The Fourth Duke of Richmond368
Admiral Viscount Nelson374
Lord Dalhousie376
General Lord Aylmer395
The Earl of Durham407
Sir John Colborne417
Lord Sydenham424
Sir Charles Bagot434
General Earl Cathcart443
The Earl of Elgin452
Lord Lisgar458
The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava466