CONTENTS 



PREFACE 



PAGE 



vii 



CHAPTER I 



Departure — Lieut. -Gen, Sir R. S. S. Baden Powell — Boy Scouts 

 — The effect of a breeze — The trek wagon — Lady Suffragists 

 — Bride-elect passengers — Remedy for breaking windows — 

 The concert, how not to do it — The ice region — Marconi 

 cablegram — Straits of Belle Isle — Demons' Islands — The 

 hapless Marguerite ■ — Early pioneers — Champlain and 

 Breboeuf — French colonization — King Frost — The St. 

 Lawrence river — Hardships of Champlain — The touch of 

 spring .......... I 



CHAPTER II 



Quebec — Strategic position — Historic associations — Wolfe and 

 Montcalm — Church of Notre Dame des Victoires — Site of 

 Champlain's Fort — The Hotel Dieu — Landing of early 

 Jesuit missionaries — Relics of Breboeuf and Lalemant — Falls 

 of Montmorency — Where Wolfe failed — Kent House — 

 Historical outline — Parliament — Denominational schools — 

 Effects of confederation — Montreal — The situation — The 

 Hochelaga of Cartier — Montreal of to-day — Institutions and 

 schools — St. Anne de Bellevue — Macdonald College — 

 Lachine rapids — Champlain's exploration of the Ottawa — 

 Amongst the Indians — Defeats and conquests . . • 15 



CHAPTER III 



Uttawa Government and Toronto — Industries — Institutions and 

 factories — Adoption of English customs — Aggressive 



