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i. [1763 - 1774] Governor Carleton- The Quebec Act- Trouble in America. I 2. [1774] Canada on the eve of the American Revolution. 9 3. [1775] Ethan Alien in the Champlain pass-Benedict Arnold plans a dash on Quebec. 16 4. [1775] Arnold's march to Quebec- Montgomery cap- tures Montreal - Carleton's dramatic escape. 22 5. [1775] The attack on Quebec - Montgomery's death- The capture of Daniel Morgan. 32 6. [1776] Benjamin Franklin's mission to Montreal - Carle- ton breaks the siege of Quebec -The affair at The Cedars. 41 7. [1776] The fight at Three Rivers -General John Bur- goyne and his Army - The Naval Battle for Lake Champlain. 49 8. [1777] Burgoyne plans a new campaign- Barry St. Leger - The capture of Ticonderoga - Burgoyne's disaster at Saratoga - France prepares to join the war - Carleton resigns. 59 9. [ 778] Canada loses the "Illinois Country" - The Loyalist Rangers at Niagara - The propaganda of La Fayette and Admiral d'Estaing. 67 1o. [I775] Nova Scotia, the fourteenth American colony. 73 1 . [1775-1781] Rebellion in Nova Scotia -Attack on Fort Cumberland - American privateers - The turn of the tide. 80 12. [1778- 1781] The cold war against Canada-Creation of the Provincial Marine - Horatio Nelson - The war ends. 88 13. [ 783] The strange Peace of Paris- The Loyalists. 94 14. [1781- 1791] Settling the Loyalist exiles-The Canada Act - Canada divided into two provinces. 101 15. [1783- 1794] The Indians - Joseph Brant - The slaughter at Fallen Timbers- Jay's Treaty. 107 16. [1786- 1794] Lord Dorchester returns - Prince Edward and his mistress. 15 17. [1793 - 1796] The intrigue of Citizen Genet - Vermont plans a war on Canada- The comedy of the Olive Branch. 122 18. [1791 - 1792] Upper Canada at the time of the Canada Act - Governor Simcoe. 130 19. [1793- 1796] Simcoe explores the wilderness - Choos- ing the site of Toronto - Simcoe's wild plans for war -A new inpour of American settlers. 136 20. [1785 - 1789] The Nor'westers - Alexander Mackenzie - "Mackenzie's River." 143 21. [1579 - 794] The Pacific coast - Sir Francis Drake - The inquisitive Russians - Captain Cook - An Ameri- can finds the "Great River of the West" - The Quest of George Vancouver. 149 22. [1793] Alexander Mackenzie's journey to the Pacific. 157 23. [1792-1807] Napoleon's dream of Canada-Nova Scotia privateers on the Spanish Main-Lower and Upper Canada at the turn of the century. 162 24. [1789- 1811] Travel from Upper Canada towards the West - The origin of the metis - The Russians in Alaska-The search for the Columbia. 171 25. [1805 -1812] Origins of the War of 8z12 - The "Chesa- peake" affair - Tecumseh and the Prophet. 179 26. [1812] The American "War Hawks"- The Canadian as a fighting man - Material interests in 1812. 186 27. [1812] Preparations for War. 191 28. [ 18Z ] The Detroit front - The fiasco of General Hull. 196 29. [1812] British troops in Ohio - The Niagara front- The battle of Queenston Heights. 202 30. [1812] The fighting season ends on the Niagara - All quiet in the Champlain pass - The war at sea. 208 31. [1813] Naval preparations on the Great Lakes- The Detroit front - Fighting at Frenchtown, Fort Meigs and Fort Stephenson. 213 32. [1813] Sir James Yeo -Captain Robert Barclay - The Battle of Lake Erie. 221 33. [1813] The Detroit front - Procter and Tecumseh - Retreat and disaster on the Thames. 230 34. [1813] The Americans raid York-British defeat at Fort George - The British raid Sackets Harbor- American defeat at Stony Creek and Beaver Dam- The burning of Newark- British reprisals. 240 35. [1813] Naval operations on Lake Champlain - The American campaign against Montreal - Chrysler's Farm. 256 36. [1813] The fight at Chateauguay - Peace overtures. 264 37. [1814] Preparations for the final campaign-American raids in Ontario - American defeat at Mackinac - Canadian troops in Illinois. 271 38. [1814] British raid on Oswego - American victory at Chippewa - The battle of Lundy's Lane. 279 39. [1814] British defeat at Fort Erie - The fight at Cook's Mills - The American retreat from Upper Canada. 294 40. [1814] Wellington's veterans arrive in Canada - British naval defeat on Lake Champlain - The retreat from Plattsburg. 303 41. [1814] The war on the Atlantic coast-British troops take eastern Maine - British attacks on Washington and Baltimore - The peace signed at Ghent - The Rush-Bagot Treaty -Effects of the war. 313 42. [1811 - 1813] The Pacific coast - The Canadians gain Astoria - Lord Selkirk moves Scots to eastern Canada. 327 43. [i81i-I821] Scots in Manitoba-The quarrel of the Nor'westers - Massacre at Seven Oaks - Selkirk re- stores his colony - The Nor'westers sell out to Hud- son's Bay. 335 44. [1815-1825] A decade of peace-The Erie Canal- Canadian banks - Colleges - Canals - New search for the North West Passage - Russian and American claims on the Pacific coast. 346 45. [815 - 1836] Poverty and demand for Reform in Brit- ain - Emigration to North America - The Maritime Provinces - French-Canadian unrest - The growth of Montreal. 355 46. [1830- 1836] The state of Upper Canada-The Cana- dians in Oregon. 366 47. [1828 - 1837] World unrest - The Reform movement in Canada - The Family Compact - William Lyon Mac- kenzie - Rebellion and persecution in Upper Canada. 371 48. [1828- 1837] The Reform movement in Lower Canada - Louis Joseph Papineau - Rebellion and persecution in Lower Canada. 384 49. [1838] Robert Nelson-The great conspiracy of the Hunters- Fighting in Upper and Lower Canada. 396 50. [1837-1841] Lord Durham and his famous Report- The union of Lower and Upper Canada - Baldwin and Lafontaine find common ground. 404 51. [1837 - 1849] The Reform movement in Nova Scotia- London concedes responsible government - Mon- treal the capital of Canada - The Rebellion Losses Bill- The burning of Canada's House of Parliament - The Annexation Manifesto. 411 52. [1837 - 1849] The expansion of the United States- Border quarrels- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty - American infiltration into Oregon - "Fifty-Four-Forty or Fight." 421 53. [1850] The first railways - Joseph Howe - The Cunard Line - The electric telegraph - A vision from sea to sea. 431 54- [1763 - 85o0] The march of communications - "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" - Canadian Literature of the period. 441 55- [1763-1850] The arts in Canada. 450 56. [1850] The Air of Destiny. 455