In 1692, a girl of fourteen was left to defend her father’s manor from angry Iroquois raiders.

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.

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.

A ‘slight and delicate’ Canadian woman defied twenty miles of rugged terrain in sweltering heat to warn of an impending attack by American invaders.

Lord Durham warned Westminster that colonial Canada must be run by elected MPs, not career bureaucrats.

In the year that Napoleon’s quest for European Empire faltered at Moscow, President Madison of the USA came to his aid.