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Bell's English History Source Books

General Editors: S. E. Winbolt, M.A., and Kenneth Bell, M.A.

CANADA

(1535--PRESENT-DAY)


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BELL'S ENGLISH HISTORY SOURCE BOOKS.


  _Volumes now Ready.    1s. net each._

    =1307-1399. War and Misrule= (special period for the School
    Certificate Examination, July and December, 1913). Edited by A.
    A. LOCKE.

    =1154-1216. The Angevins and the Charter.= Edited by S. M.
    TOYNE, M.A., Headmaster of St. Peter's School, York, late
    Assistant Master at Haileybury College.

    =1485-1547. The Reformation and the Renaissance.= Edited by F.
    W. BEWSHER, Assistant Master at St. Paul's School.

    =1547-1603. The Age of Elizabeth.= Edited by ARUNDELL ESDAILE,
    M.A.

    =1603-1660. Puritanism and Liberty.= Edited by KENNETH BELL,
    M.A.

    =1660-1714. A Constitution in Making.= Edited by G. B. PERRETT,
    M.A.

    =1714-1760. Walpole and Chatham.= Edited by K. A. ESDAILE.

    =1760-1801. American Independence and the French Revolution.=
    Edited by S. E. WINBOLT, M.A.

    =1801-1815. England and Napoleon.= Edited by S. E. WINBOLT, M.A.

    =1815-1837. Peace and Reform.= Edited by A. C. W. EDWARDS,
    Assistant Master at Christ's Hospital.

    =1876-1887. Imperialism and Mr. Gladstone.= Edited by R. H.
    GRETTON.

    =1535-Present-day. Canada.= Edited by JAMES MUNRO, M.A.,
    Lecturer in Colonial and Indian History in the University of
    Edinburgh.

    _Other volumes, covering the whole range of English History
    from Roman Britain to 1887, are in active preparation, and will
    be issued at short intervals._

LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

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CANADA

(1535--PRESENT-DAY)

by

JAMES MUNRO, M.A.

Lecturer in Colonial and Indian History
in the University of Edinburgh







[Illustration]

London
G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
1913




INTRODUCTION


This series of English History Source Books is intended for use
with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has
conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuable--nay, an
indispensable--adjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of
two main uses: either by way of lively illustration at the close
of a lesson, or by way of inference-drawing, before the textbook
is read, at the beginning of the lesson. The kind of problems
and exercises that may be based on the documents are legion, and
are admirably illustrated in a _History of England for Schools_,
Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381. However, we have no
wish to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall
exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with
materials hitherto not readily accessible for school purposes. The
very moderate price of the books in this series should bring them
within the reach of every secondary school. Source books enable
the pupil to take a more active part than hitherto in the history
lesson. Here is the apparatus, the raw material: its use we leave
to teacher and taught.

Our belief is that the books may profitably be used by all grades
of historical students between the standards of fourth-form boys
in secondary schools and undergraduates at Universities. What
differentiates students at one extreme from those at the other is
not so much the kind of subject-matter dealt with, as the amount
they can read into or