. 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. Labrador. The eastern coast, further tothe south, was explored in 1498 by Americus Vespucius and after himthe whole continent came in time to be called. A few years later,Cortereal, a Portuguese, inspired by the enterprise which in thosedays gave his country an empire of commerce and unappreciated soil,explored the shores of Newfoundland and Labrado
. 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. Labrador. The eastern coast, further tothe south, was explored in 1498 by Americus Vespucius and after himthe whole continent came in time to be called. A few years later,Cortereal, a Portuguese, inspired by the enterprise which in thosedays gave his country an empire of commerce and unappreciated soil,explored the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador and inauguratedthe intercourse of Europeans with the Red men by carrying a numberof them away into slavery. In 1506, Denis of Honfleur, a French-man of unrecorded position, visited the future Gulf of St. Lawrenceand boldly declared the whole region annexed to France and subjectto its Crown. He brought back with him a kidnapped Indian childwhich represented the brutal instincts of so-called civilization when incontact with barbarism ; a considerable fund of knowledge whichpresently resulted in the appearance of Cartier upon the scene ; anda basis of claim to territory and possibilities of power which might CO > G W r D wo a:> r> 2.
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