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In 1692, a girl of fourteen was left to defend her father’s manor from angry Iroquois raiders.
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Pontiac’s War
ByDuncan A. McArthur
Following the disastrous Seven Years’ War, France agreed to quit Canada
and leave it to the British, which was not at all what the local tribesmen wanted.
3
Hudson Bay
ByDuncan A. McArthur
Canada’s Hudson Bay has been a cause of war and an engine of
prosperity, but long before that it was the scene of cold treachery.
4
My Long Walk to Beaver Dams
ByLaura Secord
A ‘slight and delicate’ Canadian woman defied twenty miles of rugged terrain
in sweltering heat to warn of an impending attack by American invaders.
5
Defective Democracy
ByJohn George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
Lord Durham warned Westminster that colonial Canada must be run by elected MPs, not career bureaucrats.
6
The War of 1812
ByClay Lane
In the year that Napoleon’s quest for European Empire faltered at Moscow, President Madison of the USA came to his aid.
