Opis: The Canadian Monthly and National Review, July-December 1873, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Author Unknown

Excerpt from The Canadian Monthly and National Review, July-December 1873, Vol. 4

"Little of what we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year."

Two hundred years, though very far below the antiquity of the Chesters and Berwicks of Old England, constitute a pretty respectable age for a town in a world which is emphatically called the New. On a continent where the relics of even a centennial antiquity are few and far between - whose oldest traces of civilization, leaving Mexico out of the question, do not go farther back than three hundred years - where a complex civilization has, in the course of a couple of centuries, replaced the primeval wilderness, and some of whose most magnificent cities of to-day had, half a century ago, no existence, the citizens of Kingston may justly claim some of the reverence due to age for a place which, during two hundred years - as Fort Frontenac, Cataraqui, or Kingston - has played an important part in the history of Canada, ranking in military importance next to old Quebec itself.

It is not easy mentally to realize the Canada of two hundred years ago, since the Canada that we know had then, save in the
comparatively unchangeable natural features of the country, no existence. To see it as it was we must obliterate, in imagination, its busy and substantial cities, towns and villages, its harbours and shipping, its roads, and its network of railways; and call up in their stead a vision of the trackless forest wilderness, haunted by the deer, the wolf, and the beaver; and forming the hunting-grounds, as well as the battle-ground, of a few fierce, wandering tribes, who waged no less cruel and destructive warfare with each other than upon the animal denizens of the forest.

We must also exactly reverse the position of the British possessions in America, for Nouvelle France, under the dominion of the most Catholic King, Louis XIV., occupied almost precisely the present boundaries of the Dominion of Canada, while the territory now forming the United States, so far as it had then been explored, was claimed by the English settlers, and held by their garrisons.

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Szczegóły: The Canadian Monthly and National Review, July-December 1873, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Author Unknown

Nazwa: The Canadian Monthly and National Review, July-December 1873, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330424650
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 562
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: The Canadian Monthly and National Review, July-December 1873, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Author Unknown