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New World Ballads

Gibbon, John Murray.  New World Ballads. Toronto, Ryerson, 1939. 177 p.  Illus., p. 34 

  • p. 1 -  “Champlain on the French River, Ontario”
  • p.10 -  “Jacques Cartier meets the Indians”
  • p.14 -  “Marie Hebert, mother of French Canada"
  • p.16 -  “Coureurs de bois”
  • p.29 -  “So with his soldiers and rangers, Hazarding infinite dangers” [LaSalle]
  • p.34 -  “David Thompson – mapmaker of the west”
  • p.50 -  “Brock Landing at Detroit”
  • p.52 -  “Laura Secord”


Cartier Meets the Indians of the St. Lawrence, 1535

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Marie Hebert, The Mother of Canada

In the picture she is seen watching from one of her fields on the edge of the cliff the departure of the last English ship bearing away the French colonists.

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The Mapmaker of the West

It is impossible in a brief sketch to give more than a bare outline of his career; but he has left the record of his life-work not only on the map of Canada and in his field notes, but also in the narrative of his travels which he wrote late in life.

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Brock At Detroit

The picture shows Brock watching the landing of the troops on the Detroit shore. He holds a field-glass in his hand. Behind him stands his aide-de-camp, Col. Macdonnell.

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