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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
BOOK VI.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
CHAPTER I.
Geographical Boundaries. Geological Features. Minerals.
Wild Animals. Fishes, &c. Climate, &c. HISTORICAL
SKETCH. Settlement of the Country. Sufferings of early
Settlers. Governor Carlton. General Smyth. Sir Howard
Douglas. Constitution. Administration of the Laws. Re-
venue. Quit Rents, &c.
CHAPTER II.
Divisions of the Province. Description of the City and River
of St. John. Prairie. Suburbs of Portland and Carleton.
Society, &c.
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CHAPTER III.
River St. John. Lower Cataracts. Indian Town. Steam
Boat. River Scenery. Grand Bay. Kennebecacis. Al-
wington Manor. Long Reach. Belle-Isle Bay. Washe-
demoak. Grand Lake, &c.
CHAPTER IV.
FREDERICTON. Beauty of its Situation. Luxuriant Scenery.
Public Buildings. Governor's House. New Brunswick
College, &c.
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River St. John above Fredericton. Tributary Rivers. To-
bique, Restook, Woodstock. Houlton Plantation. Ame-
rican Encroachments. Mars' Hill. Presque Isle. Grand
Falls. Acadian Settlements. Madawaska. Rout to Canada.
Lake Tamisquata, &c.
CHAPTER VI.
Coast of the Bay of Fundy. Passamaquoddy Bay, and Islands.
Grand Manan. Campobello. Deer Island. American Fron-
tier. Eastport and Robinstown. Town of St. Andrew.
St. Stephen's. Rivers St. Croix and Schoodic. Digdaquash.
Magaquadavic. L'Etang. Le Preaux. Musquash. Quaco.
Chepody. Petit Coudiac. Memramcook. Westmoreland.
Great Roads. Interior Settlements, &c.
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CHAPTER VII.
Coast of New Brunswick within the Gulf Shore.
Miramichi
River and Settlements. Chatham, Newcastle, &c. Occu-
pations of the Inhabitants. Timber Trade. Cultivation of
the Soil. Salmon Fishery. Tremendous Fire of 1825.
Effects on the Soil. Harbours on the Gulf Coast, &c.
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CHAPTER VIII.
BAY DE CHALEUR.
Miscou. Shippigan. Caraquette. New Bandon. St. Peter's.
Rustigouche. Dalhousie. Salmon Fishery. Lumberers, &c. 61
CHAPTER IX.
DISRICT OF GASPÉ.
Bonaventure. New Carlisle. Paspabiac. Percé. Gaspé.
Whale-fishers, &c.
CHAPTER X.
Trade. Imports and Exports. Timber Trade, &c.
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CHAPTER XI.
Agriculture. Sir Howard Douglas' Attention to the En-
couragement of Husbandry. Agricultural and Emigrant
Societies. Live Stock, and Average Crops.
CHAPTER XII.
Population. Religion. Education. College of New Bruns-
wick. Madras Schools.
BOOK VII.
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CANADA.
Discovery and History. Jacques Cartier. Champlain founds
Quebec. War with the Indians. Company of New France.
Recollet Friars. Quebec taken by the English. Restored
to France. Mission of Sillery. Jesuits' College at Quebec
founded. Hôtel-Dieu. Convent of St. Ursula. Death of
Champlain. Order of St. Sulpicius found an Establishment
at Montreal. Hostilities of the Iroquois. Introduction of
Brandy among the Savages. A Bishop arrives at Quebec,
and a Seminary founded. Sisters of the Congregation.
Tremendous Earthquake.
Company of New France surrender their Charter. Canada
placed under the Government of the Company of the West
Indies. Wars with the Iroquois. Church of Quebec. De
Frontenac's energetic Government. Attempts of the Jesuits
to convert the Savages. Clergy. Administration of the
Laws. Calamities of the Indians from the Ravages of the
Smallpox. Discovery of the Mississippi.
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Jealousies of French and English, in regard to the Fur Trade.
Indian Warfare. Perilous Condition of Canada. Marquis
Denonville arrives as Governor, with a strong Reinforcement.
Seizes the Iroquois Chiefs, and sends them to France as
Galley Slaves. Ravages of the Iroquois. Political Treachery
and Barbarity of Kondiaronk. Devastation of Montreal, &c. 129
Critical Condition of Canada. Re-appointment of M. de
Frontenac. War with the Indians. Sir William Phipps
attacks Quebec. Hostilities between the English and
French Colonists. Conferences with the Indians. Death of
Count Frontenac. M. de Vaudreuil. Indian Perfidy. War
with the Autagamis. Death of M. de Vaudreuil.
M. de
Beauharnois. War between France and England, &c.
CHAPTER V.
Sur-
Preparations made by the English for conquering Canada.
Forces under General Wolfe land and ascend the Heights.
Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Death of Wolfe.
render of Quebec. Death of Montcalm. Surrender of
Niagara. Ticonderago. Crown Point and Montreal. The
Intendant-General M. Bigot's Fraudulency. Governor
Murray's Report.
Sir Guy Carleton's Administration. Quebec Act of 1774.
American War. Montreal surrenders to General Mont-
gomery, who is afterwards killed at Quebec. The Americans
retreat from the Province. Constitutional Act of 1791, and
Partition of the Province, not agreeable to the English In-
habitants. Sir Guy Carleton created a Peer. General Pres-
cot Governor. Sir R. Milnes. Sir James Craig.
Sir George Prevost. Operations during the American War.
Sir George Gordon Drummond. Sir John Coape Sher-
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brooke.
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Government of the Duke of Richmond. Civil List. Earl of
Dalhousie. Sir James Kempt. Lord Aylmer.
Administration of Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt.
General Election under the New Representation Act. Lord
Aylmer Governor. Troops fire at the Electors in Montreal,
and kill three Men.
187
Government and Laws of Canada. Quebec Act. Partition
of the Province. Counties and Representation. Coutume
de Paris. New Division of the Province. Constitution of
the Government. Administration of the Laws. Districts. 192
Courts of Justice. Districts. Judges. Lawyers. Notaries.
Canadian Laws. Estates. Tenures.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Revenue and Expenditure. Public Offices, &c.
CHAPTER XIV.
Configuration and general Aspect of Canada. Geological
Structure. Organic Remains. Steps. Mineralogy. West-
ern Region. Rocky Mountains, Climate, &c.
CHAPTER XV.
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Coast of the River St. Lawrence from Gaspé to Quebec. Bay
of Seven Islands. Trinity. Manicougan Shoals. Port
Neuf. South Shore. Cape Gaspé. Anse de L'Etang.
Matane. Mitis. Rimouski. Bique. Trois Pistoles. Ap-
pearance of the South Coast. Roads, Travelling. Cana-
dian Parishes. Auberges. Churches. Habitans' Houses.
Rivière de Loup. Kamouraska. St. Anne's. St. Thomas's.
Habitans on Sunday. Moral Character. Point Levi.
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CHAPTER XVI.
Country of the King's Posts. The River Saguenay. Tadousac.
Islands in the St. Lawrence, &c.
CHAPTER XVII.
City of Quebec. Appearance from the River. Lower Town,
Wharfs, Hangards, Streets, Houses, Upper Town, Public
Buildings, English and Catholic Cathedrals, Churches, Nun-
neries, Jesuits' College, Market, Populace, Society, Cana-
dian Gentry, Amusements, Summer, Winter, Classification
of Ranks, Hotels, Table d'Hôte, Public Institutions, Liter-
ary and Historical Society, &c., Trades-people, Auctions,
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