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CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Part I
The First European Visitors
THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY
A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
By STEPHEN LEACOCK
TORONTO, 1915
CHAPTER I
BEFORE THE DAWN
We always speak of Canada as a new country. In one sense,
of course, this is true. The settlement of Europeans on
Canadian soil dates back only three hundred years.
Civilization in Canada is but a thing of yesterday, and
its written history, when placed beside the long millenniums
of the recorded annals of European and Eastern peoples,
seems but a little span.
But there is another sense in which the Dominion of
Canada, or at least part of it, is perhaps the oldest
country in the world.
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