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Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.
In this stirring account of the last phase of the struggle between France and England for supremacy in America, from 1744 when the War of the Austrian Succession spread into the New World until the fall of New France in 1760, Professor George Stanley shows that for the French who lived in North America the issue was not political or ideological but economic: they laboured and fought not primarily for the glory of France but for their homes, their lands, and their trade. Making brilliant use of eye-witness accounts, the author brings to life the complex military campaigns of the period and depicts with great skill the characters of...
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Copyright 1968 McClelland & Stewart
Electronic edition published 2016
First published in hardback by McClelland & Stewart in 1968
Volume 5 of The Canadian Centenary Series
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency is an infringement of the copyright law.
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e-book ISBN9780771003394
Cover design by Colin Jaworski
Cover art: The Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France. Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_France.svg
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To R. P. Adrien Pouliot, S.J.
We wish to thank the following sources for permission to use their material in the illustration sections of this book:
ARCHIVES DU QUBEC for the portrait of Duquesne.
FORT TICONDEROGA MUSEUM for Canadian Militia and for H. A.
Ogdens painting of Montcalm reviewing his troops.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS for the portrait of Braddock.
MUSE DU LOUVRE for the portrait of Madame de Pompadour.
MUSE DE VERSAILLES for the portrait of La Galissonire.
PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA for the portraits of Beauharnois, Vaudreuil, M. de Rigaud, Jean-Daniel Dumas, the Sieur de Beaujeu, Mme M.-J.-H. Pan, Mme Claude-Michel Bgon, the Sieur de Boishbert and the Earl of Loudoun, and for the drawings by Thomas Davies of the siege of Louisbourg (1758), Fort St Frdric, the Montmorency Falls (1759), and Amhersts troops running the St Lawrence rapids.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA for the portraits of Wolfe and Montcalm, and for Louis de Courvals drawings of Monsieur de Beaussiers battle and the siege of Quebec.
CAPTAIN J. C. TILY for Eugene Leliepvres drawing, Men of the Royal Roussillon Regiment.
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY for Edwin Willard Demings painting of the Battle of the Monongahela.
A History of Canada
Ramsay Cook, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
1. Tryggvi J. Oleson
Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, 10001632
2. Marcel Trudel The Beginnings of New France, 15241663
3. W. J. Eccles Canada under Louis XIV, 16631701
4. Dale Miquelon New France, 17011744
5. G. F. G. Stanley New France, 17441760
6. Hilda Neatby Quebec, 17601791
7. Gerald M. Craig Upper Canada, 17841841
8. Fernand Ouellet Lower Canada, 17911840
9. W. S. MacNutt The Atlantic Provinces, 17121857
10. J. M. S. Careless The Union of the Canadas, 18411857
11. E. E. Rich The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857
12. W. L. Morton The Critical Years, 18571873
13. Peter B. Waite Canada, 18741896
14. Robert Craig Brown and Ramsay Cook Canada, 18961921
15. John Herd Thompson with Allen Seager Canada, 19221939
16. Morris Zaslow The Opening of the Canadian North, 18701914
17. Morris Zaslow The Northward Expansion of Canada, 19141967
18. D. G. Creighton Canada, 19391957
19. J. L. Granatstein Canada, 19571967
ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Volumes I, III, VII, and XII of The Canadian Centenary Series were published with the help of grants from the Humanities Research Council of Canada.
New France: The Last Phase
The Canadian Centenary Series
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