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CONTENTS

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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.

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CHAPTER II.

Divisions of the Province.

of St. John.

Society, &c.

Description of the City and River

Prairie. Suburbs of Portland and Carleton.

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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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CHAPTER V.

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.

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CHAPTER X.

Trade. Imports and Exports. Timber Trade, &c.

CHAPTER XI.

Agriculture. Sir Howard Douglas' Attention to the En-

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couragement of Husbandry. Agricultural and Emigrant

Societies. Live Stock, and Average Crops.

CHAPTER XII.

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Population. Religion. Education. College of New Bruns-

wick. Madras Schools.

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BOOK VII.

CANADA.

CHAPTER I.

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.

CHAPTER II.

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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.

CHAPTER III.

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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

CHAPTER IV.

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.

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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. Sur-

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.

CHAPTER VI.

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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.

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Sir George Prevost. Operations during the American War.

Sir George Gordon Drummond. Sir John Coape Sher-

brooke.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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Government of the Duke of Richmond. Civil List. Earl of

Dalhousie. Sir James Kempt. Lord Aylmer.

CHAPTER IX.

Administration of Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt.

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CHAPTER X.

General Election under the New Representation Act. Lord

Aylmer Governor. Troops fire at the Electors in Montreal,

and kill three Men.

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