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Identifier: canadabeal00beal (find matches)
Title: Canada
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bealby, J. T. (John Thomas), b. 1858
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Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d does not yet formpart of the Dominion of Canada), Cape Breton, andPrince Edward Island, there is a large population ofhardy fisher-folk, who for generations have fished forcod on the inexhaustible banks of Newfoundland.And even before their ancestors settled on Americansoil the hardy fishermen from Brittany, in France, andfrom the Basque country on the borders of Franceand Spain, used to dare the perils of the stormyAtlantic that they might go and reap the silveryharvest of the sea in the same fish-teeming waters.And for over 300 years great fleets of fishing-boatsfrom both Europe and the maritime provinces ofCanada have continued to brave the terrors and perilsof the deep in pursuit of cod, mackerel, lobsters,herring, and haddock. The earliest Europeans, or white men, to penetrateinto the wilds of the Canadian backwoods were thecoureurs de hois—that is, hunters and trappers ofFrench, or mixed French and Indian, descent, whocollected furs to sell to the trading companies of the 64
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Spoils of Sea and Wood French. These bodies had factories along the LowerSt. Lawrence. In the early days—that is to say, fora couple of hundred years after the French settledcolonists in Canada—the principal fair for the trade infurs was Montreal. There every spring a crowd oftrappers and hunters brought the bales of furs whichthey had stripped off beaver, bear, or fox, musk-rat orracoon, and handed them over in barter to the agentsof the autocratic fur-trading company ; and at the sametime large fleets of canoes came paddling down theSt. Lawrence and the Ottawa rivers, bringing wholeboatloads of furs which the Indians had collected allalong the Great Lakes, and even from the distant OhioRiver, and the great plains of the West. Who does not know the haunting melody of the Canadian Boat-Song ?— Faintly as tolls the evening chime,Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.Soon as the woods on the shores grow dim,Well sing at St. Annes our parting hymn.Row, brothers, row ! The str

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