4 Inasmuch 



J6i4 detained as a hostage in Jamestown, adopted the 



manners and dress of the women of the colony, was 

 baptised as Rebecca, married a colonist of an old 

 Norfolk family, went with her little son to Eng 

 land, was made much of by those who knew her 

 story, was slowly poisoned by the stench of 

 London, died on board the ship George on the 

 eve of her proposed return to Virginia, and was 

 buried in &quot;Ye Chauncel&quot; of a Parish Church 

 of Gravesend. Thus one of the most romantic 

 characters of the Red Race, one of the first to 

 be admitted by baptism into the Christian 

 Church, found her last resting place in conse 

 crated English soil, and illustrated that connection 

 which it is our privilege to trace from Jamestown 

 to Nova Scotia, from Nova Scotia to Ontario, 

 from Ontario to Rupert s Land, from Rupert s 

 Land to the islands of the Pacific Ocean and the 

 coasts of the Arctic seas. 



A word first, with regard to the origin of the 



&quot;Canada&quot; f name of the great country, Canada, into the 

 far spaces of which it is our purpose, in ancient 

 fashion, by canoe and dog-train, to make our way. 

 Of two or three suggested derivations, the follow 

 ing, as the most probable, seems to be command 

 ing fairly general acceptance. An old and quaint 

 author, from whose writings we shall quote rather 

 freely, says: &quot;From a Canadian (Indian) vocabu 

 lary, annexed to the original edition of the second 

 voyage of Jacques Cartier, Paris, 1545, it appears 

 that an assemblage of houses or habitations, i.e., 

 a town, was by the natives called Canada. 



