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rapidity. More attention was paid to agriculture, and the fur trade 

 was carried on extensively, while Quebec reached a population of 

 8,000 souls. Charlevoix, a French traveller and writer, made a trip 

 in a birch bark canoe, from Quebec up the St. Lawrence, along the 

 south side of Lake Ontario and the Niagara river, along the north 

 shore of Erie and up the St. Clair and Detroit rivers into Lake Huron 

 and got as far as Mackinaw. In his splendid account of the trip he 

 describes the country about Sarnia and the Detroit River as the 

 most beautiful and lovely part of Canada. During all this time the 

 Indians of Canada remained at peace, little change taking place in 

 their affairs. 



