Agnes C. Laut

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Thirty or more years ago, one who stood at the foot of Main Street, Winnipeg, in front of the stone gate leading to the inner court of Fort Garry, and looked up across the river flats, would have seen a procession as picturesque as ever graced the st...

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"The Twentieth century belongs to Canada." The prediction of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion, seems likely to have bigger fulfillment than Canadians themselves realize. What does it mean? Canada stands at the same place in the world's hi...

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An empire the size of Europe setting out on her career of world history is a phenomenon of vast and deep enough import to stir to national consciousness the slumbering spirit of any people. Yet when you come to trace when and where national conscious...

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All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain had declared the Pacific 'a closed sea' to the rest of the...

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Experience the thrilling early days of the Canadian fur trade in Agnes C. Laut's Heralds of Empire. This historical fiction follows the adventures of Ramsay Stanhope, a lieutenant serving under the legendary Pierre Radisson, as they navigate the vast...

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Agnes Christina Laut (1871-1936) was a Canadian author. Amongst her works are: Lords of the North (1900), The Story of the Trapper (1902), Heralds of Empire (1902), Pathfinders of the West (1904), Vikings of the Pacific (1905), The Conquest of the Gr...

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The question will at once occur why no mention is made of Marquette and Jolliet and La Salle in a work on the pathfinders of the West. The simple answer is-they were not pathfinders. Contrary to the notions imbibed at school, and repeated in all hist...

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All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain had declared the Pacific 'a closed sea' to the rest of the...

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Fearing nothing, stopping at nothing, knowing no law, ruling his stronghold of the wilds like a despot, checkmating rivals with a deviltry that beggars parallel, wassailing with a shamelessness that might have put Rome's worst deeds to the blush, fig...

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I am sitting in the doorway of a house of the Stone Age-neolithic, paleolithic, troglodytic man-with a roofless city of the dead lying in the valley below and the eagles circling with lonely cries along the yawning caverns of the cliff face above. My...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

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