Excerpt from A Short History of the Canadian People
IT is no easy thing to write a competent and reliable history of any country covering four centuries Of time. Jacques Cartier discovered Canada about forty years/ after Columbus stumbled upon the Continent of America.
Further, if the period is long, Canadian history also presents peculiar difficulties in the varied, obscure, and sometimes uncertain sources of its development.
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