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Fur Companies Abolished

This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: How the Companies Got Their Power.IntroductionThe fur-trade of Canada,

In all departments of industry, the appeals for help are endless. Governors and intendants are so many sturdy beggars for the languishing

The whole system of administration centered in the king who was supposed to direct the whole machine, from its highest functions to its pettiest

The luckless intendant was liable to be held to account for the action of natural laws.Our special project presenting the definitive account of

Beyond and above all the regular tribunals, beyond and above the council itself, was the independent jurisdiction lodged in the person of the king’s

The governor, the intendant, and the supreme council or court, were absolute masters of Canada under the pleasure of the king.Our special

Most of the contracts between seignior and censitaire had been agreed upon in good faith by men who knew as much of the Coutume de Paris as of the

With such treatment the weaker sort died but the strong survived, and out of this rugged nursing sprang the hardy Canadian race of bush-rangers and

In his capacity of counsellor, friend, and father to all Canada, he arranged the new settlements near Quebec in the manner which he judged