Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from When Canada Was New France
The Great War has had a special meaning for Canadians. Soldiers from our Shores, citi zen-soldiers, have been landing on the northern coast Of France in tens Of thousands, and passing through the same seaport towns whence nearly four hundred years ago men sailed forth to the westward to discover a fabled land. This country, discovered by the French and colonized by them and by the English, this land Which was now French and now English as the fortune Of war changed in Europe as well as in America, has become a nation, and when the time Of trial came and danger threatened the ancestral homes in the two Motherlands, Canada hesitated not a moment but Offered her services in the cause of freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
