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From: "Daniel Flynn" <>
Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] Book on the history of Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:20:11 -0600

Hi Beth,

Try "The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760"
by W.J.Eccles
University of New Mexico Press
revised 1992
ISBN 0-8263--0706-X

The book is excellent, you won't be able to put it down. I got it a
amazon.com earlier this year.

Dan Flynn,
Chicago


> Can anyone recommend a book, in English, that I could get that would be a
> place to start to learn more about early colonial Canada - not sure if
> colonial is the correct term? I have traced my line back to Guillaume
> Hebert, Jacques Archambault, Marin Boucher and Louis Tetreau and several
> other early immigrants and would like to learn more about the Canada they
> lived in. Unfortunately, my American education left me with a very
marginal
> amount of Canadian history, and I would love to be able to help my 10 year
> old understand where some of her ancestors "came from". Someday we'll
talk
> about France too, but for now one country is enough.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Happy Holidays
> Bet

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