The world: historical and actual . nd the dissemination ofNew- World knowledge. The first practical discovery of Canada occurredin 1534. Jac-ques Cartier, aFrench navi-gator, reachedthe mouth ofthe St. Law-rence, and as-cended thatlordly river asfar as the siteof Montreal. Itwas two yearsbefore Cartierreturned toFrance. Priorto that time theNew Found-land fisherieshad temptedthe French,English, Spanish and Portuguese across the Atlantic,but Cartier was the first permanent settler. Hebrought to these shores a very considerable colonyfrom the west ofFrance, men inwhose veins therecoursed the blo
The world: historical and actual . nd the dissemination ofNew- World knowledge. The first practical discovery of Canada occurredin 1534. Jac-ques Cartier, aFrench navi-gator, reachedthe mouth ofthe St. Law-rence, and as-cended thatlordly river asfar as the siteof Montreal. Itwas two yearsbefore Cartierreturned toFrance. Priorto that time theNew Found-land fisherieshad temptedthe French,English, Spanish and Portuguese across the Atlantic,but Cartier was the first permanent settler. Hebrought to these shores a very considerable colonyfrom the west ofFrance, men inwhose veins therecoursed the bloodof the old Normanrovers and little prior toCarriers explora-tions a French fleethad sailed alongthe American con-tinent from Floridato Canada,dubbingit New France,but doing nothingto really justify theappellation. Thefirst French settlershad for their mainobject trade in furs and fish. Gradually they formed permanent settle-ments, near the coast and along the St. Lawrence. One of the primitive settlements of New France. was Acadia, or Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, anda part of Maine. The first Acadian settlement wasin 1605. Its close proximity to the fishery banks rendered itespecially im-portant. In1713 Franceceded Acadiato peopleresolutely re-fused to takethe oath of al-legiance to theEnglish wereeighteen thou-sand of them,and the ruth-less hand ofBritish powerremoved them,in many casesseparating families. The melancholy fate of theAcadians furnished and suggested Longfellowsgreat and substantially historical poem of Evan-geline. The French ofCanada belong tothe old regime, theFrance which pre-ceded the Revolu-tion. They are andalways have beensingularly out ofall sympathy withthen- fatherland ofa century past,and pride them-selves upon theircons er v a t i s m .They are profound-ly religious and asorthodox as a col-lege of have no sharein the work wrought for the French people by Did-erot and Voltaire, Rousseau and Danton, the
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