Identifier: canadaempireofno00laut Title: Canada, the empire of the North; being the romantic story of the new dominion's growth from colony to kingdom Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936 Subjects: Canada -- History Publisher: Boston, London : Ginn and company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: d fur-ship captains, with fifty yearsice battling to their credit, probably knew their business betterthan MacDonell. The fur ships had not been built for speedand comfort, but for cargoes and safety, and when storms camethey simply lowered sails, turned tails to the wind, and rolledtill the gale had passed, to the prolonged woe of the Highlandlandsmen, who for the first time suffered seasick pangs. Then,when Governor MacDonell attempted drills to pass the time, hemade the discovery that seditious talk had gone the rounds ofthe deck. The Hudsons Bay had no right to this country. 3§4 CANADA: THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTH The Norwesters owned that country. The Hudsons Bay-could nt compel any man to drill and fight. Selkirk couldnot give clear deed to their lands, and much more to thesame effect, all of which proved that some Norwester agent indisguise had been busy on board. September 24, amid falling snow and biting frost, the shipsanchored at Five Fathom Hole off York Factory, Port Nelson.

Text Appearing After Image: As- %S- -Mirth >jv V NELSON AND HAYES RIVERS(From Robson) The Selkirk settlers had been sixty-one days on board, and theywere still a year away from their Promised Land. Champlainscolonists of Acadia and Quebec had come to anchorage on aland set like a jewel amid silver waters and green hills, but theSelkirk settlers have as yet seen only rocks barren of verdure asa billiard ball, vales amidst the domed hills of Hudson Straits,dank with muskeg, and silent as the very realms of death itself,but for the flacker of wild fowl, the roaring of the floundering WINTER ON THE BAY 385 walrus herds, or the lonely tinkling of mountain streams runningfrom the ice fields to the mossy valleys bordering the northernsea. It needed a robust hope, or the blind faith of an almostreligious zeal, to penetrate the future and see beyond these sterileshores the Promised Land, where homes were to be built, andplenty to abound. If pioneer struggles leave a something in theblood of the race that makes for nat

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