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Canada From the Earliest Times to the Present

Paterson, Gilbert.  Canada From the Earliest Times to the Present. Toronto,  Ryerson Press, 1933.  233 p.  Illus.


  • v - “Illustrated by C.W. Jefferys and Edith Maclaren
  • 21 -  “Jacques Cartier Erects a Cross at Gaspe, 1534”
  • 27 -  “Champlain on the Ottawa River, 1613”
  • 29 -  “A Jesuit missionary preaching to the Hurons”
  • 31 -  “Rev. James Evans”
  • 37 -  “The La Verendryes in sight of ‘The Shining Mountains’”
  • 43 -  “Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Arctic Ocean”
  • 45 -  “Mackenzie’s journey of discovery”  [map]
  • 47 -  “Simon Fraser descending the Fraser River, 1808”
  • 51 -  “David Thompson”
  • 53 -  “Captain James Cook at Nootka, 1778”
  • 71 -  “The Order of Good Cheer at Port Royal”
  • 75 -  “The meeting of Marie Jacquelin and Charles de la Tour”
  • 78 -  “The founding of Halifax”
  • 90 -  ‘Loyalists on their way to Canada”
  • 92 -  “Settlers drawing lots for their land”
  • 101 -  “A country dance in the eighteen-forties”
  • 103 -  “Lord Selkirk naming the Paris of Kildonan, 1817”
  • 109 -  “The Red River cart”
  • 112 -  “Father Lacombe averts the opposition of Chief Crowfoot”
  • 116 -  “The first furrow”
  • 136 -  “In the early years of the twentieth century, E. Wyley Grier and J.W. L. Foster achieved a reputation as portrait painters, and Charles W. Jefferys depicted Canadian historical scenes.”
  • 143 -  “Frontenac among the Thousand Islands”
  • 166 -  “Joseph Howe addressing an open-air meeting”
  • 231 -  “Index…Jefferys, C.W., 136…”


Champlain Taking an Observation with the Astrolabe

Champlain Taking an Observation with the Astrolabe

In 1613 Champlain made a journey up the Ottawa River, at that time unknown to the white man. Like all early explorers, Champlain hoped that it led to the sea - that sea which stretched to the Far East of Asia.

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David Thompson Taking an Observation

David Thompson Taking an Observation

Thompson is using an artificial horizon. This is a flat iron pan into which mercury was poured. The pan is covered by a sloping glass roof, and placed on perfectly level and firm ground or rock in a situation to reflect the image of the sun.

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Mackenzie at the Arctic, 1789

Mackenzie at the Arctic, 1789

It is an interesting coincidence that on the same day that Mackenzie saw the Arctic Sea from an island at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, July 14, 1789, the people of Paris attacked and captured the Bastille.

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Alexander Mackenzie and His Explorations

Alexander Mackenzie and His Explorations

Sir Alexander Mackenzie, from portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence

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