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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty of the Story of the World A Simple
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  Speaker 1: History for Boys and Girls. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Ritoboutro's The Story of the World A Simple History
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  Speaker 1: for Boys and Girls by Elizabeth O'Neill, chapter forty, The
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  Speaker 1: Story of Canada. To many men from the earliest times,
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  Speaker 1: there has come a strange longing which they cannot put aside.
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  Speaker 1: It is a longing to go out and travel to
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  Speaker 1: the unknown parts of the world, to see what they
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  Speaker 1: are like, what people live there, what these people do,
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  Speaker 1: and what things grow there. It was this longing which
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  Speaker 1: drove Columbus across the ocean to discover America. But Columbus
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  Speaker 1: was not really the first to find America. The Northmen,
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  Speaker 1: whose land is Norway in Sweden, had ever loved adventure,
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  Speaker 1: as they do still in the last few years. Men
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  Speaker 1: from Norway have sailed right out many times to the
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  Speaker 1: frozen North and to the center of the snowy South,
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  Speaker 1: which we call the South Pole. It was when Ethelred
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  Speaker 1: the Unready was ruling in England in the eleventh century
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  Speaker 1: that Leith Eriksson sailed off towards the west, just when
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  Speaker 1: some of the other Northmen were swooping down upon England.
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  Speaker 1: After many days, he and his fellow sailors came to
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  Speaker 1: a land which was probably that which we now call Canada,
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  Speaker 1: the northern part of North America. But the Northmen sailed
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  Speaker 1: back to their own country, and it was nearly five
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  Speaker 1: hundred years before anyone from Europe visited Canada again. The
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  Speaker 1: time it was an Englishman, John Cabot, who set sail
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  Speaker 1: from Bristol and came to Canada again. It was only
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  Speaker 1: a visit, and the Englishman did not try to settle there.
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  Speaker 1: But fishermen learned soon that good fishing was to be
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  Speaker 1: had near the new country, and they commenced to sail
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  Speaker 1: and fish round the island of Newfoundland and the coasts
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  Speaker 1: of North America. Just thirty seven years after Cabot's voyage,
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  Speaker 1: in fifteen thirty four, a French sailor was sent by
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  Speaker 1: King Francis the First to see what he could find.
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  Speaker 1: Jacques Cartier, as he was called, was even more venturesome
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  Speaker 1: than Cabot. He sailed up the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: to the place where Montreal now stands. And it is
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  Speaker 1: to him that we owe the name Canada. For it
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  Speaker 1: is said that when he met with some red Indians
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  Speaker 1: who lived in the land in those days, they pointed
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  Speaker 1: to their huts saying Canata, meaning to point out their
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  Speaker 1: village to him. In their language, the word Canata means village.
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  Speaker 1: But Cartier thought they were telling him the name of
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  Speaker 1: the land, and so Canata or Canada, he called it.
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  Speaker 1: The first colonist in Canada. No one from Europe so
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  Speaker 1: far had attempted to stay in Canada. For Cartier sailed
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  Speaker 1: back again like Cabot, and it was almost seventy years
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  Speaker 1: before the next visitors came to the country and began
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  Speaker 1: to build themselves houses. Samuel de Champlain, who was the
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  Speaker 1: leader this time, is the first great name in the
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  Speaker 1: story of Canada. He will always be remembered through the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Lake Champlain, which he discovered and which was called
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  Speaker 1: after him. Champlaint was a very wise and brave men,
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  Speaker 1: and when he arrived in Canada in the year sixteen
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  Speaker 1: o three, he at once made friends with the Indians.
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  Speaker 1: He had made his plans and intended to stay in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: for he had been sent out by a man to
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  Speaker 1: whom the French king had given the right to be
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  Speaker 1: the only one allowed to trade with Canada and sell
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  Speaker 1: the firs which were got from the wild animals there.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing to do was to find a place
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  Speaker 1: where he could live, and so Champlain sailed up the
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  Speaker 1: River Saint Lawrence and round the coast until he made
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  Speaker 1: up his mind to settle at Port Royal, now called
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  Speaker 1: Annapolis in Nova Scotia. Champlin had soon to go back
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  Speaker 1: to France, but he went back again to Canada, and
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  Speaker 1: this time founded the city of Quebec in sixteen o eight.
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  Speaker 1: He had made friends with the Huron Indians, but had
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  Speaker 1: to fight with the fierce tribe called the Iroquois. Champlin
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  Speaker 1: was a Catholic and a very religious man. He did
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  Speaker 1: not mind much about the fur trader or founding towns
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  Speaker 1: and settlements. What he did care for was ever to
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  Speaker 1: find new places and to bring his religion to the
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  Speaker 1: people whom he met. He commenced a settlement at Montreal, and,
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  Speaker 1: thinking to find a new way to China, sailed up
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  Speaker 1: the Ottawa River. But the settlements he made were not
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  Speaker 1: well protected, and about the time he founded Montreal, the
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  Speaker 1: English from Virginia took Port Royal, and in sixteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine an English fleet took Quebec. Champlain was taken prisoner
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  Speaker 1: to England, but four years later Canada was given back
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  Speaker 1: to the French and he returned to Quebec, where he
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  Speaker 1: died in sixteen thirty five. Struggles with the Indians. Champlain's
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  Speaker 1: work was not carried out without much fighting with the
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  Speaker 1: savage and treacherous Red Indians, and the warfare went on
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  Speaker 1: for many years longer. It was not a life to
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  Speaker 1: persuade many people to leave their homes in France, but
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  Speaker 1: many people did go. There were the missionaries black robes,
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  Speaker 1: as the Indians called these priests, who were the bravest
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  Speaker 1: colonists of all. They thought it was their duty to
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  Speaker 1: go out and tell the Indians about God. Yet thirty
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  Speaker 1: years after Champlain's death there were only about two thousand
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  Speaker 1: Frenchmen in Canada. Some of these pushed their way through
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  Speaker 1: the thick forests without paths, against wild beasts and savage men,
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  Speaker 1: to the great Lake Superior and south to where the
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  Speaker 1: great River Mississippi enters the ocean, and founded a colony
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  Speaker 1: which they called Louisiana after their King Louis. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the priests in Canada thought that the Indians were being
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  Speaker 1: made wilder and fiercer through the White Man giving them
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  Speaker 1: brandy and other spirits to drink, and they tried to
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  Speaker 1: prevent it, but did not succeed very well. One night
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  Speaker 1: in the August of the year sixteen eighty nine, the
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  Speaker 1: Iroquois took a terrible revenge on the French. It was
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  Speaker 1: a dark and stormy night, and the people in a
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  Speaker 1: small village near Montreal had gone to bed, when suddenly
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  Speaker 1: there burst in upon them a large number of Indians.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred of the colonists were killed at once by
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred Iroquois, and they were indeed happier
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  Speaker 1: than those who were left, for a hundred of these
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  Speaker 1: were carried off and tortured in the most horrible ways
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  Speaker 1: before they were killed. At this time, a brave Frenchman
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  Speaker 1: called Louis de Bode had been sent back to France.
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  Speaker 1: But when he returned he fought against the Iroquois so
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  Speaker 1: fiercely that in a few years he had so thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: conquered them that no Frenchman ever needed to fear them again.
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  Speaker 1: The French king Louis the fourteenth had been thinking what
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  Speaker 1: a glorious chance he had of making a great empire
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  Speaker 1: in America, and Louis de Bode tried to bring this about.
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  Speaker 1: So he attacked the English colonists in New England to
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  Speaker 1: win their land for France. But the fighting went very
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  Speaker 1: badly for the French, and when peace was made in
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  Speaker 1: the year seventeen thirteen by the Treaty of Utrecht, they
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  Speaker 1: had to give up the land where they had first
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  Speaker 1: settled Nova Scotia, as well as Newfoundland and the land
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  Speaker 1: round Hudson Bay. Still they held the land round the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Lawrence, and they tried to make up for what
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  Speaker 1: they had to give to England by pushing farther west
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  Speaker 1: and founding new towns. One very brave man, after terrible hardship,
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  Speaker 1: even traveled right across Canada to the Rocky Mountains. This
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  Speaker 1: is still a very long journey by the fastest trains,
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  Speaker 1: but la Verendres, as this man was called, had no
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  Speaker 1: train to go by. He simply struggled on, sometimes fighting
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  Speaker 1: with wild beasts, sometimes with Indians. Often he had very
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  Speaker 1: little to eat for days. Together. George Washington other frenchmen
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  Speaker 1: traveled south to the colony of Louisiana and founded the
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  Speaker 1: large town which is called New Orleans. It was through
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  Speaker 1: these Frenchmen, who were trying to get as much land
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  Speaker 1: as they could to the south of Canada, that a
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  Speaker 1: young man who afterwards became very famous, first came to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to fight. George Washington had not much chance
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  Speaker 1: of education in the things most boys and girls of
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  Speaker 1: his age are expected to know. Now. Most of what
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  Speaker 1: he knew he had taught himself. He could spell and
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  Speaker 1: write good English, which very few colonists could do. He
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  Speaker 1: also liked mathematics, but he learned other things which were
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  Speaker 1: much more valuable for him. He had finished his schooling
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  Speaker 1: when he was fifteen. He had, on the whole been happy,
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  Speaker 1: though his father died when he was young. He could shoot,
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  Speaker 1: hunt fish, and look after the big plantations which had
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  Speaker 1: belonged to his father and now belonged partly to his
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  Speaker 1: half brother and partly to himself. He had learned other
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  Speaker 1: and harder lessons. The Washingtons lived on the borders of Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and life was not very safe there. They might be
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  Speaker 1: attacked at any time by Indians or by the Frenchmen
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  Speaker 1: from the north. George learned to ride about amongst these
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  Speaker 1: dangers without any fear, and also to be cool and
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  Speaker 1: calm if he was attacked by man or beast. When
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  Speaker 1: he was only sixteen, he was sent to look after
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  Speaker 1: large plantations. Even then he knew exactly what he wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and was so wise and sensible that grown men respected him.
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  Speaker 1: When he was nineteen, he had an attack of the
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  Speaker 1: dreadful disease of smallpox, which left marks on his face
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  Speaker 1: till he died. He was only just a man when
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Virginia chose him for a difficult task.
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  Speaker 1: The French, as we have seen, were pushing their settlements south,
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  Speaker 1: and the English colonists thought that they were taking some
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  Speaker 1: of the land which they looked on as their own.
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  Speaker 1: So George Washington was sent to tell them to go back.
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  Speaker 1: It was winter, and traveling was not easy, even if
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  Speaker 1: there had been no enemy near, but he made the journey.
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  Speaker 1: The French officers were very polite to him, but they
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  Speaker 1: told him to tell the governor that they meant to
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  Speaker 1: stay where they were, so Washington went back. He did
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  Speaker 1: not seem to have done much, but he had looked
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  Speaker 1: carefully at the country and had made up his mind
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  Speaker 1: where a fort should be built to keep the enemy back.
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  Speaker 1: Next year he was made a lieutenant colonel and sent
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  Speaker 1: to fight the French and the Indians near the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: where they had made their camp. He defeated them, but
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  Speaker 1: a month later had to give in and go back.
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  Speaker 1: The next year he went back again under General Braddock
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  Speaker 1: to try to take Fort Duquesne, which stood where the
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  Speaker 1: large American town Pittsburgh with its huge smoky factories and
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  Speaker 1: iron foundries now stands. General Braddock was a brave man
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  Speaker 1: and a good fighter, but he did not know how
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  Speaker 1: to fight against the French and Indians, and in the
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  Speaker 1: battle he was defeated and nearly all his men were killed.
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  Speaker 1: It was here that Washington first showed how brave a
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  Speaker 1: fighter he was. All over the battlefield he could be
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  Speaker 1: seen on horseback cheering the men to fight harder. Many
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  Speaker 1: an Indian shot at him, and they could shoot well
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  Speaker 1: and straight. But somehow he escaped with some of his
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  Speaker 1: soldiers unharmed from the terrible battle. A few months after
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  Speaker 1: his return, he was made head of all the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia. He was only twenty three years old, but
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  Speaker 1: he defended the border of Virginia against the enemy, and
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  Speaker 1: was one of the leaders when three years later Fort
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  Speaker 1: Duquaine was taken. The rest of his life belongs to
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  Speaker 1: the story of America, which is told in the next chapter.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most terrible things in this warfare between
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  Speaker 1: the French and English was done by the governor of
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  Speaker 1: Nova Scotia. This, as we have seen, was the first
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  Speaker 1: French settlement made in Canada, but it had been taken
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  Speaker 1: by the English. A great number of the people who
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  Speaker 1: still lived there, however, were simple French Catholics who were quiet,
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  Speaker 1: peaceful farmers and traders. They were still Frenchmen at heart,
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  Speaker 1: loving the French king better than the King of England.
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  Speaker 1: In the year that General Braddock was defeated at Fort Duquaine,
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Nova Scotia suddenly seized six thousand of
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  Speaker 1: the French settlers and drove them from their homes and
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  Speaker 1: right out of Nova Scotia in an instant. Their peaceful
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  Speaker 1: life was broken up. The country they loved and in
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  Speaker 1: which they had lived so long, and their fathers before
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  Speaker 1: them was to be theirs no longer. Many did not
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  Speaker 1: know where to go. In their great sorrow, some got
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  Speaker 1: as far south as Louisiana. Others settled near Nova Scotia,
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  Speaker 1: and many years afterwards a few found their way back
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  Speaker 1: to the land of their birth again after terrible suffering,
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  Speaker 1: but most of them had seen it for the last time.
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  Speaker 1: General Wolfe, But if there were Englishmen who acted with
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  Speaker 1: great cruelty, there were others who were so noble that
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  Speaker 1: their names will never be forgotten. The struggle for Canada
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  Speaker 1: was now at its fiercest, and although the English had
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  Speaker 1: won some victories, it was seen by statesmen in England
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  Speaker 1: that the only way to take Canada was to take Quebec.
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  Speaker 1: Both French and English seemed to feel that this town
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  Speaker 1: was the key of Canada. It was built on a
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  Speaker 1: high rock which stood at the head of the Gulf
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  Speaker 1: of Saint Lawrence. From the river, it seems to be
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  Speaker 1: built on a precipice. On the west, it is defended
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  Speaker 1: by steep cliffs called the Heights of Abraham, and although
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  Speaker 1: on the opposite side the land slopes more gently, this
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  Speaker 1: was naturally watched more carefully. The French general Montcalmbe was
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  Speaker 1: a brave man and a clever fighter, and when he
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  Speaker 1: thought that Quebec was to be attacked, he called together
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  Speaker 1: all the soldiers he could get, and brought them with
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  Speaker 1: many French settlers and Indians into the city to defend it.
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  Speaker 1: The leader of the English was General Wolfe, who had
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  Speaker 1: already fought in North America before. Before he started out
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  Speaker 1: from England again, he met a young lady with whom
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  Speaker 1: he fell in love. They were to be married when
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  Speaker 1: the war was over and wolf was back again. Wulf
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  Speaker 1: was a pale, slim man, rather delicate, but few men
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  Speaker 1: have ever been braver or cleverer. He had not nearly
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  Speaker 1: so many soldiers as Montcalm, and they were not soldiers
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  Speaker 1: who had had much training. But he had made up
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  Speaker 1: his mind to take Quebec. It was a dangerous thing
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  Speaker 1: to remain in the Saint Lawrence, for in the winter
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  Speaker 1: the water freezes hard and the ships might be crushed
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  Speaker 1: to pieces. But Wulf, although the autumn was coming on,
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  Speaker 1: made his camp on a little island in the river
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  Speaker 1: facing Quebec and waited his chance to take the city.
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  Speaker 1: He set his guns to fire on the city, but
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  Speaker 1: they did not do much harm to it, and Wulf
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  Speaker 1: saw that he must try to take Quebec in some
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  Speaker 1: other way, So he sailed down the Saint Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: try to take Moncalmbe's camp below the city. But he
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  Speaker 1: was badly beaten and many of his men were killed.
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  Speaker 1: He was now ill and depressed. He could hardly drag
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  Speaker 1: his weak body about, but he did not mean to
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  Speaker 1: give in, and when he felt a little stronger, he
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  Speaker 1: made a bold plan. Montcalmbe thought he was quite safe
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  Speaker 1: on the steep west side of the town, for he
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  Speaker 1: thought no army could climb the heights of Abraham, and
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  Speaker 1: he did not believe that even the foot of them
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  Speaker 1: could be reached from the river. But Wulf had found
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  Speaker 1: that from a tiny inlet from the Saint Lawrence there
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  Speaker 1: was a footpath up the cliffs which led to the
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  Speaker 1: heights of Abraham. In the dead of night, he sailed
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  Speaker 1: down the river with his men. Cloths had been wrapped
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  Speaker 1: round the oars so that no noise could be heard,
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  Speaker 1: no light was shone, and there was no moon. Somehow
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers climbed up the narrow footpath, surprised the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: at the top, and when daylight came, Montcalmbe was astounded
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  Speaker 1: to see nearly four thousand English soldiers on the heights
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham, ready to attack Quebec, but even yet the
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  Speaker 1: city was not one. Moncombe brought up his soldiers for battle,
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  Speaker 1: and at first the English were driven back, but Wulf
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  Speaker 1: made his men wait until the French came nearer, and
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  Speaker 1: then all fire at once. Men fell along the French line,
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  Speaker 1: and before they could form up again, the English rushed
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  Speaker 1: upon them. But Wulf was wounded. As he lay, dying
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  Speaker 1: and full of pain, he heard his soldiers cry, they run.
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  Speaker 1: See how they run? Who run? The dying leader asked,
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  Speaker 1: and was told the enemy. He was quite satisfied, and
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  Speaker 1: saying now God be praised, I will die in peace,
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  Speaker 1: he closed his eyes and died. Montcalm was also wounded
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  Speaker 1: and died the next day. Five days afterwards, on the
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  Speaker 1: eleventh September seventeen fifty nine, Quebec was given up to
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  Speaker 1: the English, and when the Peace of Paris was made
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen sixty three, the whole of New France was
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  Speaker 1: given up to the English. This is how Canada became
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  Speaker 1: English instead of French. But the country was not allowed
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  Speaker 1: many years of peace to settle down and grow. Though
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  Speaker 1: the English government, which was treating the American colonists so unreasonably,
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  Speaker 1: acted very wisely towards the Canadians. They was to be
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  Speaker 1: governed from Quebec, and the Catholics were to be treated
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  Speaker 1: as well as they had ever been under the French.
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  Speaker 1: Only the English punishments for breaking the law were brought in,
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  Speaker 1: and in other things the French laws were allowed. The
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  Speaker 1: result of this wise treatment was soon seen, for when
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  Speaker 1: an army of American soldiers invaded Canada at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the American War of Independence, hoping to get the
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  Speaker 1: French to join them against England, they were disappointed. The
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  Speaker 1: Americans took Montreal, but were not able to take Quebec.
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  Speaker 1: But the War of American Independence was very important for Canada.
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  Speaker 1: The United States and Canada became two separate countries, and
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  Speaker 1: many of the American colonists who would not give up
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  Speaker 1: the King of England left their lands and went to
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  Speaker 1: find new homes in Canada. The Americans would not give
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  Speaker 1: them any money for the farms and lands they left
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  Speaker 1: behind them, and these new men of Canada did not
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  Speaker 1: soon forget it. The new Canadians were equal to more
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  Speaker 1: than half all the Frenchmen in Canada, and many of
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  Speaker 1: them settled in the land which is now called Ontario.
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  Speaker 1: Here and in the other places where they made their homes.
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  Speaker 1: They were given large pieces of land to live on
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  Speaker 1: and grow corn upon, and they were also given spades
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  Speaker 1: and plows in place of those they had left behind.
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  Speaker 1: But it is easy to understand why the new Canadians
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  Speaker 1: did not at first get on very well with the
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  Speaker 1: older colonists. They were English and Protestants, while the older
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  Speaker 1: colonists were French and Catholics. It was not long before
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  Speaker 1: it was thought that it would be wise to let
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  Speaker 1: the people of Ontario Barrio governed themselves, while the people
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  Speaker 1: in Quebec made laws only for those people who lived
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  Speaker 1: in that part of Canada. Yet, however badly the English
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  Speaker 1: and French in Canada might disagree, they did not intend
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  Speaker 1: to join the Americans, and so when in the year
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  Speaker 1: eighteen twelve the United States were at war with Great
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  Speaker 1: Britain and tried to take Canada, their soldiers were driven back.
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  Speaker 1: There were some, however, though not very many, of the
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  Speaker 1: French Canadians who did not like being ruled by an
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  Speaker 1: English governor, and rebellions took place. The leader in one
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  Speaker 1: of these, Louis Peppinot, wished to make the people of
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  Speaker 1: the Quebec part of Canada join the United States, but
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  Speaker 1: there were very few rebels and the rebellion was easily
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  Speaker 1: put down. One thing which happened just after this was
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  Speaker 1: the joining of Quebec to Ontario. The two provinces did
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  Speaker 1: not agree very well at first, but thirty years later,
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty seven, other settlements in Canada joined with them.
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  Speaker 1: The colonies called Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward
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  Speaker 1: Island were thinking of joining together, and Ontario and Quebec
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  Speaker 1: suggested that they should all join. This was agreed to,
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  Speaker 1: and the British Parliament passed the law which made them
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  Speaker 1: one on first July, which has ever since been kept
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  Speaker 1: as the birthday of the Dominion of Canada. But this
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  Speaker 1: was but a very small part of Canada as it
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  Speaker 1: is to day. Other huge tracts of land lay to
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  Speaker 1: the north and west. Much of this belonged to the
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Bay Company, which was founded in sixteen seventy to
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  Speaker 1: trade in furs and skin. The company had made settlements
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  Speaker 1: round the lower part of Hudson Bay and over the
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  Speaker 1: country west of Ontario. The Dominion of Canada wanted this
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  Speaker 1: large and fertile country to join with the rest of Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and the Hudson Bay Company agreed at the end of
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  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty nine to give up their land to the
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  Speaker 1: Queen for a sum of money, but this did not
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  Speaker 1: please many of the people who lived in the colonies
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  Speaker 1: the company had found it. One of these colonies was
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  Speaker 1: called the Red River Settlement, and it lay round the
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  Speaker 1: town which is now called Winnipeg, but was then called
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  Speaker 1: Fort Garry. Many of the men who lived in the
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  Speaker 1: Red River Settlement were half breeds, that is, half French
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  Speaker 1: and half Indian, or partly English and partly Indian, and
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  Speaker 1: they feared that when the settlement became part of Canada,
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  Speaker 1: there would be changes that they would not like. Louis Yell,
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  Speaker 1: one of these half breeds, persuaded the men to rebel.
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  Speaker 1: They made him their leader and shot an Englishman who
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  Speaker 1: refused to join them. This made the people of the
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  Speaker 1: dominion very angry, and Colonel Garnett Wolseley, who was afterwards
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  Speaker 1: called Lord Wolsey, was sent to punish them. He marched
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  Speaker 1: as far as he could, sailed over the Lake Superior,
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  Speaker 1: and took Fort Garry. Three years after this, all the
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  Speaker 1: settlements in Canada had joined the Dominion, but Louillelle, who
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  Speaker 1: had escaped in eighteen seventy, lived to persuade some people
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  Speaker 1: to rebel again. This second time in eighteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: There was much fighting and Rielle was caught and hanged.
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  Speaker 1: In the same year, the Great Canadian Pacific Railway, joining
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  Speaker 1: the east to the far west of Canada was opened.
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  Speaker 1: There has been no fighting since. Canada has gone on
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  Speaker 1: growing richer and more fertile. Every day. New towns spring up,
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  Speaker 1: almost like magic. New states have been formed. There are
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  Speaker 1: miles of wheat fields, huge canals, and railways ever growing.
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  Speaker 1: The Canadians are very loyal to Great Britain, and their
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  Speaker 1: soldiers were sent to help the British in the South
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  Speaker 1: African War. A royal prince, the King's uncle, represents King
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  Speaker 1: George in Canada. The Canadians are building great ships of
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  Speaker 1: war to help the British navy, and thousands of men
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  Speaker 1: and women leave the shores of Britain every year to
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  Speaker 1: become Canadians and live healthy, open air lives under the
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  Speaker 1: fair skies of the Dominion. End of chapter forty