Wood, William (William Charles Henry), 1864-1947 / 2008-09-18 00:00:00

EBOOK FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA ***


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CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Volume 12

THE FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA
A Chronicle of Carleton
By WILLIAM WOOD
TORONTO, 1916


CONTENTS
I. GUY CARLETON, 1724-1759
II. GENERAL MURRAY, 1759-1766
III. GOVERNOR CARLETON, 1766-1774
IV. INVASION, 1776
V. BELEAGUERMENT, 1775-1776
VI. DELIVERANCE, 1776
VII. THE COUNTERSTROKE, 1776-1778
VIII. GUARDING THE LOYALISTS, 1782-1783
IX. FOUNDING MODERN CANADA, 1786-1796
X. 'NUNC DIMITTIS,' 1796-1808
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


CHAPTER I
GUY CARLETON
1724-1759
Guy Carleton, first Baron Dorchester, was born at Strabane,
County Tyrone, on the 3rd of September 1724, the anniversary
of Cromwell's two great victories and death. He came of
a very old family of English country gentlemen which had
migrated to Ireland in the seventeenth century and
intermarried with other Anglo-Irish families equally
devoted to the service of the British Crown.
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