Donated by D.S. Richardson

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.

Saint Brendan and Other Early Navigators -- The Norse Voyages -- Pre-Columbian Apocryphal Voyages -- Out of the Mists--Canada -- Early Explorations of the Coasts of Canada, 1500-1527 -- Early French Explorations -- Jacques Cartier--the Foundation of the French Claim to Canada -- Early English Attempts to Find a Northwest Passage -- Probing the Northern Seas -- Early English Colonization Attempts -- Samuel de Champlain--the Mapmaker Who Founded New France -- The Founding of Montreal -- Jesuits and the Fur Trade--French Exploration to 1700 -- The Defence of New France to 1713 -- The Seigneurial System -- The Coming of the English--the Hudson's Bay Company -- The British Attempt to Find the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century -- The French Fur Trade Empire -- France Explores Westwards--the La Verendryes -- The Fall of Louisbourg in 1745 -- Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's Atlas -- The Founding of Halifax -- The Acadian Deportation -- The Battle for a Continent--the French and Indian War -- The Fall of Quebec--and an Empire -- James Cook's Maps of Eastern Canada -- James Murray's Map -- Quebec under the British -- The American Attack on Quebec -- Prince Edward Island -- The Coastal Surveys of Des Barres -- The Demise of the Beothuk -- Defining Canada, 1783 -- The Coming of the Loyalists -- Perceptions of the West -- An Inland Journey -- Alexander Henry's Great Map of the West -- The Maps of Peter Pond -- Alexander Mackenzie Crosses the Continent -- The Hudson's Bay Company Moves Inland -- The Hudson's Bay Company's Great Surveyors--Philip Turnor and Peter Fidler -- Native Maps -- The First Map of the West Coast -- James Cook--Defining the Width of Canada -- West Coast Exploration and Trade -- Spanish Explorations of the West Coast -- George Vancouver Surveys the West Coast -- Defining the West--David Thompson -- Early Toronto -- A Mere Matter of Marching--the War of 1812 -- The Selkirk Grant and the Red River Settlement -- Fixing the Forty-ninth Parallel Boundary Line -- The Rideau Canal -- The Canada Company -- Arctic Exploration 1818-1859 -- Westward Expansion of the Fur Trade -- The Rebellions of 1837 and the United Province of Canada -- Linking the Lakes -- Drawing the Line--the Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- The Founding of Fort Victoria and the Colony of Vancouver Island -- The Forty-ninth Parallel Extends to the Sea -- A Pioneer Road Map of Canada -- British Columbia Discovers Gold and Becomes a Colony -- Henry Hind's Expeditions -- The Palliser Expedition -- The Coming of the Railway -- Confederation and the Intercolonial Railway -- The Riel Rebellion of 1869 -- Manitoba Becomes the Fifth Province -- British Columbia Joins Confederation -- The North-West Rebellion, 1885 -- The Canadian Pacific Railway--the Settlement of the Prairies and the Linking of a Nation -- Winnipeg--Gateway to the West -- Edmonton--Gateway to the North -- Calgary--from Police Post to Oil Capital -- The Discovery of Oil -- The Art of the Bird's-Eye -- Vancouver--Pacific Terminus -- Ottawa--the Nation's Capital -- Toronto in the Nineteenth Century -- Montreal after the Fall of New France -- Gold in the Klondike -- The British Dominion -- The Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Passage Achieved -- Fire Insurance Maps -- The Boundary with Alaska -- The Evolution of Provincial Boundaries.

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