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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Pioneer settlers of New France Pioneer settlers of New France Joan Anderson Text and photographs recreate life in an eighteenth century pioneer settlement in Nova Scotia. OL15036762W
The reluctant land The reluctant land R. Cole Harris Describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the late 1860s and early 1870s. OL15121001W
Origins Origins Robert A. Wardhaugh,Alan Andrew MacEachern xxvi, 516 pages : 26 cm OL21308071W
The new Americans The new Americans Betsy Maestro,Giulio Maestro Traces the competition among the American Indians, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other resources of North America. OL38187W
Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the explorers of Canada Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the explorers of Canada Tony Coulter Surveys the early exploration of Canada by Cartier, Champlain, and others. OL4287027W
Fur trader of the North Fur trader of the North Ronald Syme Biography of an eighteenth-century fur trader from New France who, while searching for a river leading to the Pacific, discovered instead areas in western North America. OL4481373W
LA Salle LA Salle Simone Payment Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. OL5718849W