. Canada : a descriptive text book . s called ranching and is a most in-teresting employment. Here arethe famous cowboys who live allday in the saddle, can bring down agalloping horse with a rope, or throvup an apple and put two shots intoit with a revolver before it is easy in this country, for the cattle may be left out all Wheat winter to forage for themselves, while in the summer they grow fat onthe luxuriant grass of the plains. Farther north still, is a great lone land of lake, and plain and river,the haunt of the hunter and the trapper. Beyond the northern mountainslies a
. Canada : a descriptive text book . s called ranching and is a most in-teresting employment. Here arethe famous cowboys who live allday in the saddle, can bring down agalloping horse with a rope, or throvup an apple and put two shots intoit with a revolver before it is easy in this country, for the cattle may be left out all Wheat winter to forage for themselves, while in the summer they grow fat onthe luxuriant grass of the plains. Farther north still, is a great lone land of lake, and plain and river,the haunt of the hunter and the trapper. Beyond the northern mountainslies a district, until the last few years practically unknown. But menwill risk any danger for gold, and some miners sailed up the Yukon riverfor seventeen hundred miles, in search of the precious metal. Theyfound rich deposits and now there are thousands of miners in the have sprung up, government has been established and life andproperty are protected by British law quite as effectively as in theolder parts of the 6 CANADA. HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 1497. Canada discovered by Cabot; 1535, Jacques Cartier takespossession for France ; Port Ro3al (now Annapolis, Nova Scotia)founded in 1605—the first permanent settlement in Acadia. 1608. Champlain founds Quebec, beginning settlement of whatFrench called Canada ; in 1609 Champlain helps Huronsand Algonquinsto defeat Iroquois and wins the undying hatred of Iroquois for French. Company of One Hundred Associates takes over government ofCanada, 1628, promising to settle the country in exchange for monopolyof fur trade. In same year Kirke with English fleet captures Frenchfleet on its way to Quebec ; 1629, Champlain surrenders Quebec toKirke. England restores Canada and Acadia to France. 1632, Cham-plain first Governor of Canada. Death of Champlain, 1635. In 1649Iroquois attack and destroy Huron missions, putting to death withterrible torture Jesuit missionaries Brebceuf and Lalemant. Huronsalmost annihilated. In 1663, ch
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