Geog.4030 The St. Lawrence Sea-Way Penetrating 3,540 kilometers (2,200 miles) into interior North America, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Sea-way navigation system, completed in essentially its present form in 1959, was regarded as one of the great engineering accomplishments of the 20th cen...

Jacques Cartier is recognized as the European discover of the St. Lawrence River, he also discovered the Magdalene Islands and Prince Edward Island. Jacques Cartier was born in 1491 at St. Malo, Brittiany; Cartier made three voyages to North America between 1534 and 1542. On the first (1534), he ...

Canadian History has many distinct and unique chapters. Among the most significant of these chapters is the colonization of the area surrounding the St. Lawrence River in what is now the Province of Quebec. To better understand the colony of New France and its significance to the Canadian story, an ...

Samuel de Champlain was born in 1567, in the town of Brouage, Saintonge, on the Bay of Biscay in France. Very little is known of his family, other than his father was a ship-captain. Fairly early in his life, he joined the army and became quartermaster for the cavalry. Then, in 1599, Samuel'...

French Canadians & The Blackstone Valley John J. Barron Ethnicity in Massachusetts Wed. 12:30 The French have a lengthy history on this continent. The French became interested in the "New World" in 1524 when...

From the time Samuel de Champlain first stepped foot on Canadian soil to the Jesuits setting up permanent missionaries on the First Nations land, it was evident that New France's colonization would not be easy. After many failed attempts at creating a settlement along the St. Lawrence River, it was...

The Physical Regions of Canada Canada is divided into six regions. The regions are the Atlantic region, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River region, the Shield region, the Plains region, the Cordillera region, and the North region. Each of these different regions all have their own special t...

For more than a century, hockey historians have found that accurately tracing the sports origin is not only a difficult task but, is virtual impossibility. Ice hockey is traceable to games played on fields as far back as nearly 2500 years ago. In 478 BC, a Greek soldier, Hemostocoles, built a wall i...

When the Europeans came to America, there were fur-bearings animals everywhere. The best quality of furs came from the north, the reason why, is because in the north the animals needed a thicker coat to protect themselves from the harsher winter. The Indians were only hunting the fur-bearing anima...

Webster-Ashburton Treaty: Daniel Webster was motivated to settle the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. In 1783, a treaty had been made that awarded the U.S. all land in the area drained by rivers flowinginto the Atlantic instead of into the St. Lawrence. However, the diction of this t...

The Micmac The Micmac natives were one of the first inhabitants that arrived from Asia to the North American continent. They crossed Bering Strait, which was covered by the last glaciation, approximately 30,000 years ago. Upon the settlement of the continent, the Micmac finally settled in the M...

The French and Indian War In the 1750s, bitter rivals, France and Great Britain, fought over the territory in the Ohio Valley area of the Continental America colonies. They sought alliances with the Native Americans, established forts to secure land, and reignited the conflicts of interest lon...

Canadian Literature, when traced from when the first settlers arrived in Canada until today, has changed not only in its literary form but also in its aspirations. As one might expect from an immigrant community, the first literary forms were epistolary in nature, describing conditions an...

Oliver Mowat became this province's first premier in 1872. However, only a century had passed since Ontario was first settled by a group of loyalist refugees. These refugees, fought for the British crown during the American Revolution. After the revolution, British authorities provided help...

Status of Jewish Women in the Garment Industry Socio-economic, religious and political ideologies both work together to sculpt and guide the experiences which Jewish women have had in Canadian society. In order to fully be able to understand the status of Jewish women upon arrival into Canada, on...

If our society decides to have censorship, we compromise our freedom of speech and are left with the chore of deciding where to draw the illusive and unstable line between what should be censored and what should not. When the issue of censorship needs to be addressed question arise such as &qu...

Introduction The measure of productivity is extremely important in determining growth performance of a country. After two decades of high productivity growth in the 1950's and 1960's, we observed a significant slowdown of productivity growth following the oil crisis in 1973. The debate ...