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CoNTENTS. 
Vol. I. General Introduction to the entire work. 
Sec. I. The Physiography and Natural History of New Brunswick. 
Sec. II. The Indian Tribes. 
Vol. II. Sec. III. The Early Explorers— Norse, English, Portuguese, 
Spanish, French. 1000—1604. 
See. IV. The Period of French Occupation. 1604—1760. 
Vol. III. Sec. V. The New Englanders and the English. 1760—1783. 
Sec. VI. The American Revolution and the coming of the Loyal- 
ists. The Founding of the Province of New Brunswick. 
Vol. IV. Sec. VII. The Progress of the Province of New Brunswick 
down to Confederation. 
Sec. VILL. Critical Study of the Character of the New Bruns- 
wick People in the light of their origin, surroundings and 
history. 
VouumeE |. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE ENTIRE 
SUBJECT, SHOWING THE Logic OF THE DIVISION INTO PERIODS, 
The interest in New Brunswick history must as yet be strictly local. 
It has played no part in the world’s history, and but a very slight part 
in that of Canada. It has produced no very great men, none who have 
materially influenced the world’s progress, either as reformer, statesman, 
inventor, author or scholar. No great decisive battles, military or legis- 
lative, have been fought on its soil; no great question has been answered 
within its boundaries; the eyes of the world have never once been 
focussed there. Its people show no sharply differentiated characteristics 
of any kind, and nothing to make them of interest to others. They 
have developed no special provincial customs nor institutions, not even 
such trifles as sports, symbols, songs, nor anything that is their own 
alone. They are not especially enterprising nor cultured. We have 
no provincial hero, novel nor poem. Even the Loyalist movement, our 
great event, was not our own alone. The Indian tribes were inoffensive, 
and since they are living in our own day, no romance can cluster around 
them. The early explorers mostly passed the province by, and no event of 
its later history is striking or unique. With one or two exceptions it ex- 
hibits no remarkable features of scenery nor special scientific phenomena. 
It possesses hardly anything which is not better shown somewhere else. 
These negative characteristics would give no hold for an attempt, 
even to consummate genius, to make New Brunswick history of interest 
beyond itsown borders. Yet within these limits that history is varied and 
attractive to an altogether unusual degree. Its topography and scenery 
even if not grand are of great variety and charm, and its natural pro- 
ductions are many and important. Its people, if not homogeneous, are 
