George Wrong: 15 books

First published in 1908. "In spite of many pleasant summers spent at Murray Bay one had never thought of it as having a history. The place and its people seemed simple, untutored, new. Some of the other summer residents talked complacently even of having discovered it. They had heard of Murray Bay as...

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly-written historical narratives for the lay person....

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA - Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly written historical narratives for the lay person....

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly-written historical narratives for the lay person....

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly-written historical narratives for the lay person....

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA - Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly written historical narratives for the lay person....

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Moving among the members of the second Continental Congress, which met at Philadelphia in May, 1775, was one, and but one, military figure. George Washington alone attended the sittings in uniform. This colonel from Virginia, now in his forty-fourth year, was a great landholder,...

The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is needed it is to be found in the special interest of the career of Washington to a citizen of the...

IN VOLUME VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM - Part I The Family Compact: A Chronicle Of The Rebellion In Upper Canada by W. Stewart Wallace - Part II The Patriotes of ‘37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canadian Rebellion by Alfred D. Decelles - Part III The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of...

IN VOLUME VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST - Part I The Adventurers of England on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade In the North by Agnes C. Laut - Part II Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La VÃrendrye And His Sons by Lawrence J. Burpee - Part III Adventurers of the Far North:...

Volume 12 of the Chronicles of America Series. According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration,...

IN VOLUME VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY - Part I The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. Colquhoun - Part II The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of The First Prime Minister of The Dominion by Sir Joseph Pope - Part III The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of the 20th Century by Oscar D. Skelton.

Many centuries of European history had been marked by war almost ceaseless between France and England when these two states first confronted each other in America. The conflict for the New World was but the continuation of an age-long antagonism in the Old, intensified now by the savagery of the wilderness...