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Identifier: canadaempireofno00laut (find matches)
Title: Canada, the empire of the North; being the romantic story of the new dominion's growth from colony to kingdom
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Canada -- History
Publisher: Boston, London : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ilors of St. Malo. Jacques Cartier, master pilot, 8 CANADA: THE EMPIRE OE THE NORTH now forty years of age, must have learned strange yarns of the New World from harbor folk. Indeed, he may have served as sailor on the Banks. Him the King chose, with one hundred and twenty men and two vessels, in 1534, to go on a voyage of discovery to the great sea where men fished. Cartier was to find if the sea led to China and to take possession of the countries for France. Captain, masters,men, march to the cathedral and swear fidelity to the King. The vessels sail on April20, with the fishing fleet. Piping winds carry them for-ward at a clip-per pace. The sails scatter and disappear over the watery sky line. In twenty days Cartier is off that bold headland with the hole in the wall called Bona Vista. Ice is running as it always runs there in spring. What with wind and ice, Cartier deems it prudent to look for shelter. Sheering south among the scarps at Catalina, where the whales blow and the seals float in thousands
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CARTIERS FIRST VOYAGE 9 on the ice pans, Cartier anchors to take on wood and water. Forten days he watches the white whirl driving south. Then the water clears and his sails swing to the wind, and he is off tot he north, along that steel-gray shore of rampart rock, between the white-slab islands and the reefy coast. Birds are in such flocks off Funk Island that the men go ashore to hunt, as the fisher folk anchor for bird shooting to-day. Higher rises the rocky sky line ; barer the shore wall, with never a break to the eye till you turn some jagged peak and

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  • bookyear:1909
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Laut__Agnes_C___Agnes_Christina___1871_1936
  • booksubject:Canada____History
  • bookpublisher:Boston__London___Ginn_and_company
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:39
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
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