Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Entered according to Act of the Provincial Legislature, for the Protection of Copy-rights, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, by P. SINCLAIR, Quebec, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada." THE RISE OF CANADA, FROM BARBARISM TO WEALTH AND CIVILISATION. BY CHARLES ROGER, QUEBEC. Una manus calamum teneat, manus altera ferrum, Sic sis nominibus dignus utrinque tuis. VOLUME I. QUEBEC: PETER SINCLAIR. Montreal, H. Ramsay and B. Dawson; Toronto, A. H. Armour & Co.; London, C. W., Andrews & Coombe; Port Hope, James Ainsley; New York, H. Long & Brothers, D. Appleton & Co., J. C. Francis; Boston, Little & Brown; Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston; London, Trubner & Co. 1856. ST. MICHEL & DARVEAU, JOB PRINTERS, No. 3, Mountain Street. TO JOSEPH MORRIN, ESQUIRE, M. D., MAYOR OF QUEBEC, This Volume IS DEDICATED, AS THE ONLY MONUMENT, WHICH CAN BE RAISED TO ACKNOWLEDGED WORTH, BY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL FRIEND AND SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. Quebec, December, 1855. INDEX. PAGE. CHAPTER I. Canada Discovered 4 Cartier's Arrival in the St. Lawrence 5 Commencement of the Fur Trade 6 Quebec Founded 7 Exploration of the Ottawa 8 The Cold--Lake Huron 9 Sixty White Inhabitants 10 The First Franco-Canadian 11 The Colonists Dissatisfied 12 The Hundred Associates 13 Quebec Surrendered to the English 14 The Restoration--Death of Champlain 15 The Massacre at Sillery 16 The Effect of Rum upon the Iroquois 17 Arrival of Troops--A Moon-Light Flitting 18 Swearing and Blasphemy--The Earthquake 19 The Physical Features of the Country 20 The First Governor and Council 21 First Settlement of old Soldiers 22 The Canada Company 23 Kingston Founded 24 The Small Pox--De Frontenac--Sale of Spirits 25 Marquette--Jollyet--The Sieur La Salle 26 The First Vessel Built in Canada 27 Voyage of the Cataraqui--Tempest on Lake Erie 28