Canada

It was the royal desire that New France should some day become a powerful and prosperous agricultural colony, providing the motherland with an acceptable addition to its food supply. To this end large tracts of land were granted upon most liberal terms to incoming settlers, and every effort was made to get these acres cultivated. Encouragement and coercion were alike given a trial. Settlers who did well were given official recognition, sometimes even to the extent of rank in the noblesse.

In New France there were no privileged orders. This, indeed, was the most marked difference between the social organization of the home land and that of the colony. There were social distinctions in Canada, to be sure, but the boundaries between different elements of the population were not rigid; there were no privileges based upon the laws of the land, and no impenetrable barrier separated one class from another.

A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness

by William Bennett Munro

 LE JEUNE JOINS THE INDIANS. - THE FIRST ENCAMPMENT. - THE APOSTATE. - 
 FOREST LIFE IN WINTER. - THE INDIAN HUT. - THE SORCERER. - 
 HIS PERSECUTION OF THE PRIEST. - EVIL COMPANY. - MAGIC. - 
 INCANTATIONS. - CHRISTMAS. - STARVATION. - HOPES OF CONVERSION. - 
 BACKSLIDING. - PERIL AND ESCAPE OF LE JEUNE. - HIS RETURN.

 UNCERTAINTIES. - THE MISSION OF JOGUES. - HE REACHES THE MOHAWKS. - 
 HIS RECEPTION. - HIS RETURN. - HIS SECOND MISSION. - WARNINGS OF DANGER. - 
 RAGE OF THE MOHAWKS. - MURDER OF JOGUES.

 PLANS OF CONVERSION. - AIMS AND MOTIVES. - INDIAN DIPLOMACY. - 
 HURONS AT QUEBEC. - COUNCILS. - THE JESUIT CHAPEL. - LE BORGNE. - 
 THE JESUITS THWARTED. - THEIR PERSEVERANCE. - THE JOURNEY TO THE HURONS. - 
 JEAN DE BREBEUF. - THE MISSION BEGUN.

 MOHAWK INROADS. - THE HUNTERS OF MEN. - THE CAPTIVE CONVERTS. - 
 THE ESCAPE OF MARIE. - HER STORY. - THE ALGONQUIN PRISONER'S REVENGE. - 
 HER FLIGHT. - TERROR OF THE COLONISTS. - JESUIT INTREPIDITY.

 THE HURON MISSION-HOUSE. - ITS INMATES. - ITS FURNITURE. - ITS GUESTS. - 
 THE JESUIT AS A TEACHER. - AS AN ENGINEER. - BAPTISMS. - 
 HURON VILLAGE LIFE. - FESTIVITIES AND SORCERIES. - THE DREAM FEAST. - 
 THE PRIESTS ACCUSED OF MAGIC. - THE DROUGHT AND THE RED CROSS.

 MISCOU. - TADOUSSAC. - JOURNEYS OF DE QUEN. - DRUILLETES. - 
 HIS WINTER WITH THE MONTAGNAIS. - INFLUENCE OF THE MISSIONS. - 
 THE ABENAQUIS. - DRUILLETES ON THE KENNEBEC. - HIS EMBASSY TO BOSTON. - 
 GIBBONS. - DUDLEY. - BRADFORD. - ELIOT. - ENDICOTT. - 

 HURON GRAVES. - PREPARATION FOR THE CEREMONY. - DISINTERMENT. - 
 THE MOURNING. - THE FUNERAL MARCH. - THE GREAT SEPULCHRE. - 
 FUNERAL GAMES. - ENCAMPMENT OF THE MOURNERS. - GIFTS. - HARANGUES. - 
 FRENZY OF THE CROWD. - THE CLOSING SCENE. - ANOTHER RITE. - 
 THE CAPTIVE IROQUOIS. - THE SACRIFICE.