The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Fighting Governor
by Charles W. Colby
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About this eBook
- Author
- Colby, Charles W. (Charles William), 1867-1955
- Title
- The Fighting Governor: A Chronicle of Frontenac
- Original Publication
- Toronto : Glasgow, Brook & Company, 1915
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1001: North America local history: Canada
- Subject
- Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1620-1698
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30258
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30258
- Release Date
- October 15, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FRONTENAC ANSWERING PHIPS'S MESSENGER, 1690. From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys — THE FIGHTING GOVERNOR
- 2.A Chronicle of Frontenac — BY
- 3.CHARLES W. COLBY — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I — CANADA IN 1672 — CHAPTER II — LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE FRONTENAC — LADY FRONTENAC. From a painting in the Versailles Gallery. — JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT. From an engraving in the Château de Ramezay. — CHAPTER III — FRONTENAC'S FIRST YEARS IN CANADA — ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE. From an engraving by Waltner, Paris — CHAPTER IV — GOVERNOR, BISHOP, AND INTENDANT — CHAPTER V — FRONTENAC'S PUBLIC POLICY — FIGURE OF FRONTENAC. From the Hébert Statue at Quebec — CHAPTER VI — THE LURID INTERVAL — CHAPTER VII — THE GREAT STRUGGLE — PIERRE LE MOYNE, SIEUR D'IBERVILLE. From an engraving in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library — CHAPTER VIII — FRONTENAC'S LAST DAYS — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — INDEX
- 6.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED — Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
- 7.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS — PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE — PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION — PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA — PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA — PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST — PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM — PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY — PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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