The Illustrated History of CanadaRobert Craig Brown A history of Canada from the times of the early European explorers and colonists to the late 1980s. The six chapters are written by different historians, such as Peter Waite, Ramsay Cook, and Desmond Morton. |
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... River and Lake of the Woods , was one of the greatest muskrat - producing areas in the world . The northern forest merges into an area of mixed deciduous trees that extends all the way into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia . It was here ...
... River and Lake of the Woods , was one of the greatest muskrat - producing areas in the world . The northern forest merges into an area of mixed deciduous trees that extends all the way into New Brunswick and Nova Scotia . It was here ...
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... River valley was one of the richest in game . “ On either side of the river , though invisible from it , " observed the explorer and trader Alexander Mackenzie , “ are exten- sive plains , which abound in [ wood ] buffaloes , elkes ...
... River valley was one of the richest in game . “ On either side of the river , though invisible from it , " observed the explorer and trader Alexander Mackenzie , “ are exten- sive plains , which abound in [ wood ] buffaloes , elkes ...
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... River when he built Fort Chipewyan , a small estab- lishment only forty miles from Lake Athabasca . While in the Athabasca country , he learned from the Indians that the river was tributary to larger lakes and to the Slave River ( later ...
... River when he built Fort Chipewyan , a small estab- lishment only forty miles from Lake Athabasca . While in the Athabasca country , he learned from the Indians that the river was tributary to larger lakes and to the Slave River ( later ...
Contents
On the Margins of Empire 17601840 | 189 |
The Triumph and Trials of Materialism 19001945 | 375 |
Strains of Affluence 19451987 | 467 |
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