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1	Champlain's Dream more books like this by David Hackett Fischer add to wishlist A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brings to life one of the great figures in North American history, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. B&w illustrations throughout. see all copies from £7.43! new only from £10.43! \| first editions
2	Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent more books like this by Ted Morgan add to wishlist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, the sprawling roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the continent that became our country. Morgan uses scenes and dialogues from letters, journal, and diaries to re-create the odysseys, adventures, human ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.94! \| first editions
3	Madeleine Takes Command more books like this by Ethel C Brill, Bruce Adams (Illustrator) add to wishlist This historical novel, set in 17th century New France, features Madeleine de Vercheres a teenage girl who takes up arms in defense of family, country, and faith against the Iroquois. see all copies from £6.44! new only from £6.44!
4	Fathers and Crows more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist The is the heavily illustrated, annotated, and diagrammed second volume in the "Seven Dreams" series, a chronicle of the conflicts between North American Indians and Europeans. In this volume Vollmann is concerned with the 17th-century French missionaries and Jesuits who land in what will become Canada and the native Huron tribes that they find ... see all copies from £7.43! new only from £9.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Canadian frontier, 1534-1760 more books like this by W J Eccles add to wishlist This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
6	Parkman: France and England in North America Vol 1: Volume 1 more books like this by Francis Parkman, David Levin (Editor) add to wishlist The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from £10.80! first editions
7	The white and the gold; the French regime in Canada. more books like this by Thomas Bertram Costain add to wishlist see all copies from £4.59! signed copies \| first editions
8	Pioneers of France in the New World more books like this by Francis Parkman add to wishlist In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis Parkman tells why. The first part of "Pioneers of ... see all copies from £3.56! new only from £9.00! \| first editions
9	Readings in Canadian history more books like this by R. Douglas Francis, Donald B. Smith add to wishlist see all copies from £4.73! new only from £13.63! \| first editions
10	A Half Century of Conflict more books like this by Francis Parkman add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. 1700-1710. THE OLD REGIME IN ACAD1A. The Fishery Question. ? Privateers And Pirates. ? Port Boyal.? Official Gossip. ? Abuse Of Brouillan.?Com- Plaints OF ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £13.47! \| first editions
11	New World--Faber Title more books like this by Arthur Quinn add to wishlist An epic of colonial America--from the founding of Jamestown to the fall of Quebec. This ambitious and extraordinary book challenges conventional historic narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £26.00! \| first editions
12	Father Marquette and the Great Rivers more books like this by August Derleth add to wishlist This Vision book for youth 9 - 15 years old tells the thrilling story of one of America's greatest missionaries who came down from Canada with explorer Louis Joliet to explore the mighty Mississippi River, the "great river" bordered by Indian tribes who killed white men on sight. Of the few who had dared explore this immense waterway, none had ... see all copies from £3.91! new only from £3.91! \| first editions
13	The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes more books like this by Claiborne A Skinner add to wishlist "The Upper Country" melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly ... see all copies from £13.57! new only from £13.57!
14 view cover	Frontenac: The Courtier Governor more books like this by W J Eccles, Peter Moogk (Introduction by) add to wishlist Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1622-1698), was a towering figure in North American history. Appointed in 1672 as governor general of New France, he was credited with intimidating the Iroquois, defying British colonial military might, and promoting France's imperial expansion to the west. W. J. Eccles masterfully debunks these myths, created ... see all copies from £6.06! new only from £7.98! \| first editions
15 view cover	Shadows on the Rock more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist This novel about a poor apothecary, Euclide Auclair, and his daughter Cécile, who come to Quebec from France in the 17th century after the death of Euclide's wife. Homesick and shattered, Euclide gradually becomes involved in the life of the place, though his longing for his old life doesn't leave him. When, eventually, Cécile falls in love and is ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £13.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	High Towers more books like this by Thomas B Costain add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! new only from £19.33! \| first editions
17	Angelique & the Ghosts more books like this by Sergeanne Golon, Anne Golon add to wishlist see all copies from £13.00! first editions
18	Natives and Newcomers more books like this by Bruce G Trigger add to wishlist According to conventional nineteenth-century wisdom, societies of European origin were naturally progressive; native societies were static. One consequence of this attitude was the almost universal separation of history and anthropology. Today, despite a growing interest in changes in Amerindian societies, this dichotomy continues to distort the ... see all copies from £9.91! new only from £18.86! \| first editions
19	Voyages of Jacques more books like this by University of Toronto Press, Jacques Cartier, Ramsay Cook (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £7.09! new only from £23.75! \| first editions
20 view cover	Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade more books like this by Carolyn Podruchny add to wishlist French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for European civilization in the wild Northwest. Carolyn ... see all copies from £16.65! new only from £17.55!
21 view cover	Shadows on the Rock: Reissue more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist see all copies from £6.32! new only from £9.51!
22 view cover	La Salle and the discovery of the great West more books like this by F Parkman add to wishlist This classic study of the final, failed expedition of famed 17th-century explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle by historian Francis Parkman was first published in 1869. Commissioned by France to explore and govern the Western territory, La Salle's expedition went off course. He and his companions were lost in the wilderness and endured disease ... see all copies from £2.90! new only from £6.57! \| first editions
23 view cover	Frenchmen Into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada more books like this by Leslie Choquette add to wishlist An archival history of French emigration to the Canadian provinces during the 18th and 19th centuries. Choquette, a professor of history at Assumption College, provides a detailed portrait of the 30,000 emigrants of this period--their gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. see all copies from £43.95! new only from £43.95!
24	The Canadians more books like this by Ogden Tanner add to wishlist see all copies from £5.15! new only from £5.88! \| first editions
25	The founding of Canada; beginnings to 1815 more books like this by Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson add to wishlist see all copies from £10.53! signed copies \| first editions

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