Excerpt from The History of Canada, From Its First Discovery to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2 Wholly independent of political parties without the slightest disposition to favour either one side or the other, but most anxious to deal fairly by both; with a.. Experience ripened by the progress of time and a close and constant observation of public affairs and public men, the author has applied himself to the task of giving the people of Canada a history of their country, The reader Will bear in mind that the author is only speaking of a general History of Canada. Many excellent works exist on detached portions of Canadian History. Garneau' 5 History of Lower Canada, up to the Union in 1840, although written from a French Canadian stand point, and very inac curate and misleading at times, is an excellent work on the Whole Parkman' s admirable series, based almost exclusively on records from the archives of France, or on the authority of French writers, completely exhaust all the more dramatic and romantic episodes of the Canada of the Old Regime, and clearly prove how frequently wrong and partial Garneau is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.