Excerpt from Canadian Types of the Old Regime: 1608-1698 The chapters of this book represent lectures which were delivered recently in Ottawa before the May Court Club. They contain no new mate rial, and use with freedom the works of others. At the same time historical facts can be employed in a large number of different combinations, and here the life of Canada during the Old Regime is approached by a route which as yet seems not to have been followed. The author's aim is to dis cuss various aspects of French colonisation, with out at any point straying far from the concrete. To secure distinctness the examples have been drawn, chapter by chapter, from some one career. Or rather, a single personage has been made the representative of a class, and in considering the large subject with which he is connected, certain features of his experience are rendered promi nent. But this method does not involve the exact portraiture of individuals, nor does it exclude minor figures from the field of the discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.