Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 3 of 22
Through the French period there breathes the spirit Of romance. The voyageur exploring unknown rivers and untracked forests, the heroic missionary facing death in its most fearful forms, the sturdy Norman peasant fighting the wilderness and having at the same time to keep watch. And ward against the treacherous and crafty Indian, the newness and strangeness of existence in a world so little known, give to the early history of Canada a perennial fascination.
Even the country life Of the more peaceful and settled days has a colour and character entirely its own. We see transplanted to the new world the system Of feudalism, an institution SO venerable and so penetrated with historical associations that to find it on the Virgin soil of Canada strikes us with a shock of surprise such as one might feel at meeting a knight in chain armour on the banks of the St Lawrence.
It is true that the feudalism of Canada was of a very benignant type, and it is by no means unlikely that its trans plantation into that country by the French statesmen of the time was the wisest thing that could have been done. For there was, in fact, in this new world a reproduction of some of the conditions out of which European feudalism had sprung.
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