New France 1744-1760
The Last Phase
Volume V of the Canadian Centenary Series
Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.
In this stirring account of the last phase of the struggle between France and England for supremacy in America, from 1744 when the War of the Austrian Succession spread into the New World until the fall of New France in 1760, Professor George Stanley shows that for the French who lived in North America the issue was not political or ideological but economic: they…
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November 1, 2016A graduate of the University of Alberta and Keble College, Oxford, GEORGE F.G. STANLEY (1907--2002) was dean of arts and head of the department of history at Royal Military College, Kingston. He lectured at Mount Allison University and the University of British Columbia and was for two years deputy director of the Historical Section, General Staff, in Ottawa. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Ontario Advisory Board on Historic and Archaeological Sites, his honours included the Royal Society’s Tyrrell Medal and the degrees of Hon. D. ÈS L. from Laval University and Hon. LITT. D. from Mount Allison. Among his numerous books are The Birth of Western Canada, Canada’s Soldiers, Louis Riel, and The Story of…