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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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ement. In Franceit had the powerful support of Cardinal Riche-lieu, but when at Quebec in 1635 Champlaindied. New France lost its ablest leader, andthe Company the most effective exponent of itsinterests. In the end it failed. Both in Indiaand in America in the 17th century the Frenchcommercial companies failed where their Eng-lish and Dutch rivals succeeded. » After 1635 Canada was the .scene of variedactivity. It was an age of religions zeal inEurope, and the Jesuit and other missionariesplanned to convert and control the savage na-tive tribes of the country. In what is nowNorthern New York, in Ontario, and in Quebecthe missionaries did heroic work. Since theFrench missionaries were the friends of theHuron tribe, the relentless Iroquois bent ondestroying the Hurons, pursued the French too.By 1649 the Huron settlements and the Frenchmissions were alike destroyed, and the Frenchwere driven back for a time to their base, atQuebec. They had founded Montreal in 1640. CANADIAN STATESMEN.
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I. Sir Wilfrid Lauricr.4. Hon. F^tlward Blake. Sir John A. Macdonald. 3. Sir Charles Tupper.Hon. Joseph Howe. CANADA —OUTLINE HISTORY AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT but it was long only a fortified outpost to checkthe Iroquois. But missions represent only one, if the dom-inant, phase of French interest. The great in-terior exercised all the fascination of the un-known upon the chivalrous minds of the Frenchexplorers. La Salle, Marquette, Jolict (qq.v.)are only the best known of the leaders whopenetrated to the interior before 1700. On LakeHuron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, on theMississippi, even in the Far West of Canada andthe United States the survival of French namesto this day bears witness to the activity of theseexplorers. It was a French Canadian, La Ver-endrye (q.v.), who first crossed the continent sofar as to view the Rocky ^lountains, but thiswas not until 1743. Between missions and discovery the slow andlaborious work of colonization was in danger ofbeing forgotten, but th

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