Historic notes and Canadian medical lore : lecture memoranda ; British Medical Association, Toronto, 1906.

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1906
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Credit: Historic notes and Canadian medical lore : lecture memoranda ; British Medical Association, Toronto, 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II \ 24 HISTORIC NOTES THE STRUGGLE FOR A CONTINENT For the greater part of a century the English ar| French fought for mastery of the Continent to whic each laid claim. Sometimes'with the aid of the Indianl and at others through wars involving the Home nation] or in strife between the Colonists, the great struggl| went on. Between 1534 and 1628 De Monts and de Roberval Cartier and Champlain founded the settlement] in Nova Scotia and Quebec, and took nominal possession for the French Crown of a vast region north and south of the St. Lawrence. French Colonies Early British The First Blow at Ul Meanwhile the British had settled in Virginia and New England, and established themselves in' Newfoundland and also upon the borders oil Settlements the great northern bay, in whose dark and] oft ice-bound waters Henry Hudson met both) fame and death. Acadia was the scene of the first conflict between the I English and French, which was to lead to such prolonged strife. This action was due to Samue Argali of Virginia, who, in 1613, wholly up-rooted the French at Port Royal and established a temporary British Colony in its place. The French claims to Canada were based on Cartier's discovery of the St. Lawrence and the explorations of Champlain, while the English claimed the Atlantic countries and an indefinite territory inland by virtue of the Cabots’ still earlier discoveries. Thus commenced the great struggle, not only between the national governments and military forces of the countiies concerned, but also between Colonists whose descendants were to occupy the soil, either as rulers or 1 uled. 1 01 neaily 130 years the strife continued until the 1 reaty of Paris, made on February 10th, 1763, closed the protracted warfare, and by it the Canadian Continent passed into British hands. 1 -tUbb*