. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. CHAPTER XXIX The Growth of National Prosperity THE Provinces of French and British Canada up to the Conquestwere largely fur-trading communities. Their exports were theproducts of the chase or of the skillful labours of hunters andtrappers in the wilds of the West. Under the French regime, andespecially from 1660 to 1760, the country now called Queb
. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. CHAPTER XXIX The Growth of National Prosperity THE Provinces of French and British Canada up to the Conquestwere largely fur-trading communities. Their exports were theproducts of the chase or of the skillful labours of hunters andtrappers in the wilds of the West. Under the French regime, andespecially from 1660 to 1760, the country now called Quebec, andstretching far down into the heart of the Mississippi valley, was inthe hands of a practically close corporation which controlled the tradeand taxes and distribution of all products. Special monopolies in thefur-trade, or in the farming of the revenues, were given from time totime by the French King. Such conditions had a naturally restrictiveand injurious effect upon individual enterprise and the progress of com-mercial interchange was, therefore, seriously retarded. Parkman tellsus that in 1674, for instance, merchants not residents in the Colony were forbidden to sell any goods at retail except in August, Sep-tember and October; t
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