Pages From Canada's Story
by D. J. Dickie & Helen Palk Author
Interesting 'living book' history of Canada told in a very readable story form. Many, many B&W photos and drawings illustrate this nice book. Poetry and verse are scattered throughout as well as many original source quotations, via journal entries etc., are nicely integrated into the story. This book is in two parts as a revised edition of the two volume original edition.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- Print Status
- Out of Print
- Sections divided by page numbers
- 100
- Geographical Setting
- Canada
- Historical Setting
- 1492 - 1945
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Ltd.
- Edition
- Revised 1949
- Copyright
- 1928
Sections divided by page numbers
- 9 HOW CANADA WAS DISCOVERED (1492-1611): Four Hundred Years Ago
- 10-11 THE NORSEMEN: Eric the Red
- 11-12 Leif the Lucky
- 13-14 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS:
- 14-17 Columbus Sets Out
- 18 A Light! A Light!
- 19-21 The New Land
- 22-23 Columbus at Court Again
- 24-26 JOHN CABOT:
- 26-27 How the New World Was Christened (Amerigo Vespucci)
- 28-29 HOW JACQUES CARTIER FOUND CANADA
- 30-31 Cartier Sets Up A Cross: Vive le Roi de France
- 32-34 Cartier Finds the Great River St. Lawrence
- 35-37 How Cartier Came to Hochelaga at Last: One of His Men Tells the Story
- 37 "Who Calls?" (poem)
- 38-39 How Cartier and His Men Spent the Winter in Canada
- 39 "At St. Malo" (From Jacques Cartier (poem) by D'Arcy M'Gee)
- 40-41 THE ENGLISH SEAMEN: Sir Humphrey Gilbert:
- 41 The "Swallow"
- 42-43 New-Found-Land
- 43-44 The "Delight"
- 45 The Little "Squirrel"
- 46-48 Martin Frobisher
- 49 John Davis
- 50-51 Henry Hudson:
- 52-53 How Hudson Died
- 54-55 HOW CANADA WAS SETTLED (1535-1668): The Fishermen
- 56-58 The Father of Canada: SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN:
- 58-59 St. Croix
- 60 Port Royal
- 60-61 The Order of Good Times
- 62-63 Quebec
- 64-65 A Fight With the Iroquois
- 65-67 The Boy Who Told Champlain a Lie
- 68-70 Champlain Discovers Lake Huron
- 70-71 How Champlain Held Quebec
- 71-73 The Death of Champlain
- 73 "Champlain" (poem)
- 74-75 FATHER BREBEUF:
- 75-76 The Mission House
- 76 The Little School
- 77 The Smallpox
- 78-80 The Fathers in Danger
- 81-82 HOW MONTREAL WAS BUILT (MAISONNEUVE):
- 83-84 Pilotte
- 84-87 Maisonneuve the Brave
- 88 DOLLARD:
- 89-92 "The Heroes of the Long Sault" by Francis Parkman
- 93-95 Trumpets and Drums
- 95-96 TALON:
- 96-98 New Settlers
- 98-99 Getting Settled
- 100-104 Wives for Homesteaders
- 105-106 LIFE IN OLD QUEBEC (1660-1700): The Seigneurs
- 106-109 The Censitaires
- 109-110 The Seigniory
- 111-112 The Bake Oven
- 112-114 The Grist Mill
- 114 The Model Farm
- 115-116 Habitant Homes
- 116-118 On Sunday Afternoon
- 119-121 Coureurs De Bois
- 121-122 FRONTENAC:
- 122-123 Canada in 1672
- 123-124 The Fighting Governor
- 125-126 The Great Council
- 126-128 Frontenac and Perrot
- 128-129 "The Rat" Makes Mischief
- 129-130 Frontenac to the Rescue
- 130-131 Frontenac Lays Down His Sword
- 132-134 The Heroine of Castle Dangerous (Madeleine)
- 135-136 Making a Canoe
- 137-138 Homespun
- 138-140 Making Maple Sugar (plus a verse)
- 141-142 The Snowshoe Maker
- 142-145 The Caleche
- 145-148 Marketing in Old Quebec
- 149-151 The Women of New France
- 152 Card Money
- 153-155 INTO THE WEST (1669-1687): JOLIET
- 156-157 ROBERT LA SALLE:
- 157-159 The Paradise of Canada
- 159-160 Fort Frontenac
- 161-162 The "Griffin"
- 162 Fort Broken Heart
- 163 La Salle Walks Home
- 163-164 The Man With the Iron Hand
- 165-166 Success At Last
- 166-167 The End of the Story
- 168-169 HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY (1652-1691): The King of the Fur-Traders
- 169-171 At Fort Onondaga
- 172-173 A Journey to the West
- 174-175 A Flight By Night
- 176-177 A Brush With the Iroquois
- 177-178 A New Kind of Sentry
- 179-180 The Great Trade
- 180-181 At the Court of King Charles
- 182 The Great Bay
- 183 Granting the Charter
- 184-185 Henry Kelsey Sees the Buffalo
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