Canadian Pacific Railway Company
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Excerpt from The Coronation of George V, June 22nd 1911 A. D: A Concise Outline of the Services Incident to the Coronation of George V. At Westminster Abbey, London, England Six times have the walls of Quebec been assailed by armies, and without its gates fell military heroes of three different nations. Nook - Music Room There the intrepid French voyageur, Jacques Cartier, the dis coverer of Canada, landed in 1534. The real founder of Quebec, however, was Samuel de Champlain, who in 1608, had been sent out by France to open up trade with the Indians. In 1629, Sir David Kirk appeared up the river with his fleet, compelled its surrender, and Champlain and his followers were taken to England as prisoners. The city was restored to France by the Treaty of St. Germain, and Champlain was restored as Governor of the colony. 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.
