Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . CHAPTER II. THE SETTLEMENT OF II. Before going on to tell of the troublous timesthrough which Canada had to pass ere she settleddown under a properly organised government and became the nation shenow is, it may be wellto consider how it wasthat France failed toretain the fine countryher explorers had of-fered to her. In the first place,very few people inFrance regarded thecolony as worth seriousattention. Voltaireonly voiced the general opinion when he wrote con-temptuously of it as a few acres of sno
Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; . CHAPTER II. THE SETTLEMENT OF II. Before going on to tell of the troublous timesthrough which Canada had to pass ere she settleddown under a properly organised government and became the nation shenow is, it may be wellto consider how it wasthat France failed toretain the fine countryher explorers had of-fered to her. In the first place,very few people inFrance regarded thecolony as worth seriousattention. Voltaireonly voiced the general opinion when he wrote con-temptuously of it as a few acres of snow. The colonists themselves were few in numbers—not more than 80,000 in all—and were thus farbehind the million and a quarter of English-speak-ing people in the thirteen American colonies. Theywere neglected by the French Government, werehampered with the same burdens and restrictionsas their brothers in the Mother Country, andprogress was accordingly slow.
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