Kevin McAsh
33 books
Early Modern
552
Arthur G. Doughty - Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline
The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime part of New France from the western part, which began with the St...
3 hours 36 minutes
Early Modern
557
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
Early Modern
530
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
Early Modern
610
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
Early Modern
503
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
