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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - This Country of Ours, Part 1
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow...
2 hours 59 minutes
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568
Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the...
3 hours 24 minutes
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Thomas Chapais - Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672
Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat that had hung over the colony for 20 years. Although Talon did not join the...
2 hours 55 minutes
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William Bennett Munro - Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she better equipped for the work. No power of Western Europe since the...
3 hours 20 minutes
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544
Immanuel Kant - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel...
3 hours 21 minutes
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Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little...
3 hours 9 minutes
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Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty,...
3 hours 4 minutes
