La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de, birth and childhood, 1-3; enters army, 3; expedition against Deerfield, 4-7; raid on St John's, 7; serves in War of Spanish Succession, and is made lieutenant, 8; returns to Canada and enters fur trade, 9; determines to find the Western Sea, 14; marries Mlle Dandonneau, 14; commands trading-post on Fort Nipigon, 15; granted monopoly of Western fur trade as a means of financing his Western expedition, 17-19; his first journey of exploration, 20-32; returns to Montreal, 33-5; starts again for the West, 36; refuses to revenge himself on the Sioux for the murder of his son, 46; with the Assiniboines, 49-54; with the Mandans, 55-68; falls ill, 69; returns to Assiniboines, 70; at Fort La Reine, 71, 72, 74, 92; returns to Montreal, 94; given the rank of captain and decorated, 95; dies, 96; 112. Louvière, builds Fort Rouge, 49. Mackenzie, Alexander, 109. Mandans, tribe of Indians, 44-67, 72, 73, 89. Messager, Father, 19, 30. Niverville, 107-8. Noyelle, M. de, 94. Ochagach, his story of the Western Sea, 15-16, 19. Parkman, Francis, his description of Bow Indians, 81-3. People of the Little Cherry, 87-89. Rainy Lake, fort built at, 29. Rocky Mountains, explorers reach, 85, 93, 108, 109. Rouville, Hertel de, guerilla leader, 4. Saint-Pierre, Legardeur de, 96, 102-3, 104, 106-7, 109-11. Sioux Indians, 39-43, 46, 90, 91. Snake Indians, 80, 86, 88. Subercase, leader of raid on St John's, 8. Three Rivers, 1-2. Western Sea, 12-19, 21, 73, 93, 95, 109. Winnipeg, Lake, fort built at, 30-1. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS 1. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY By Stephen Leacock. 2. THE MARINER OF ST MALO By Stephen Leacock. PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE 3. THE FOUNDER OF NEW FRANCE By Charles W. Colby. 4. THE JESUIT MISSIONS By Thomas Guthrie Marquis. 5. THE SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA By William Bennett Munro. 6. THE GREAT INTENDANT By Thomas Chapais. 7. THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR By Charles W. Colby. PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION 8. THE GREAT FORTRESS By William Wood. 9. THE ACADIAN EXILES By Arthur G. Doughty. 10. THE PASSING OF NEW FRANCE By William Wood. 11. THE WINNING OF CANADA By William Wood. PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA 12. THE FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA By William Wood. 13. THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS By W. Stewart Wallace. 14. THE WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES By William Wood. PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA 15. THE WAR CHIEF OF THE OTTAWAS By Thomas Guthrie Marquis. 16. THE WAR CHIEF OF THE SIX NATIONS By Louis Aubrey Wood. 17. TECUMSEH: THE LAST GREAT LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE By Ethel T. Raymond. PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST