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England and France started in a fair race for the magnificent prize of supremacy in America. The advantages and difficulties of each were much alike, but the systems by which they improved those advantages and met those difficulties were essentially different. New France was colonized by a government, New England by a people. In Canada the men of intellect, influence, and wealth were only the agents of the mother country; they fulfilled, it is true, their colonial duties with zeal and ability, but they ever looked to France for honor and approbation, and longed for a return to her shores as their best reward. They. | Conquest of Canada Vol. 1 of 2 by George Warburton 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. Conquest of Canada Vol. 1 of 2 by George Warburton Project Gutenberg s The Conquest of Canada Vol. 1 of 2 by George Warburton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Conquest of Canada Vol. 1 of 2 Author George Warburton Conquest of Canada Vol. 1 of 2 by George Warburton 2 Release Date April 21 2008 EBook 25119 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONQUEST OF CANADA Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries. THE CONQUEST OF CANADA. BY THE AUTHOR OF HOCHELAGA. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. 1. NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 82 CLIFF STREET. 1850. INTRODUCTION. England and France started in a fair race for the magnificent prize of supremacy in America. The advantages and difficulties of each were much alike but the systems by which they improved those advantages and met those difficulties were essentially different. New France was colonized by a government New England by a people. In Canada the men of intellect influence and wealth were only the agents of the mother country they fulfilled it is true their colonial duties with zeal and ability but they ever looked to France for honor and approbation and longed for a return to her shores as their best reward. They were in the colony but not of it. They strove vigorously to repel invasion to improve agriculture and to encourage commerce for the sake