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World's Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies

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This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XI contains stories about Canadian history and about the discovery of Central and South America, from the early Inca and Aztec civilizations to the 20th century revolutions and upheavals. - Summary by Sonia

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World's Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies

Chapters

The landing of Columbus, by Petro Gabrini, painting, frontispiece

Canada Part I: Discovery and exploration: Historical note

What the Italians thought of John Cabot (1498), from two contemporary letters

Jacques Cartier at Quebec (1535), by John Fiske

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The last days of Henry Hudson (1611), by Agnes C. Laut

The last voyage of Henry Hudson, by Hon. John Collier, painting p. 24

Why the Iroquois hated the French (1609), by Eva March Tappan

Champlain and the impostor Vignan (1613), by Francis Parkman

Canada Part II: Heroes and heroines of early Canada: Historical note

The story of Jean Brébeuf (1633-1649), by Rev. J. O. Miller

The women who founded the Ursuline convent at Quebec (1639), by W. S. Herrington

The story of Ville Marie de Montreal (1642), by Agnes Maule Machar

Madame de la Tour and her defense of Fort St. John (1645), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

The child who defended Castle Dangerous (1692), by Thomas G. Marquis

Canada Part III: Life in the French settlements: Historical note

In the days of Frontenac (1672-1698), by Rev. J. O. Miller

How people lived in New France (Seventeenth century), by Charles G. D. Roberts

The Coureur de Bois, by Samuel Mathewson Baylis

Canada Part IV: Canada becomes a British Province: Historical note

The exile of the Acadians (1755), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The second capture of Louisburg (1758), by Agnes C. Laut

The fall of Quebec (1759), by George Bancroft

The fall of Quebec, from an old print, painting p. 122

The troubles of the Loyalists (about 1783), by Eva March Tappan

Loyalist Shelburne (1783), by Daniel Owen

How a settler built his log barn (early part of the nineteenth century), by Samuel Thompson

The second concession of Deer, by William Wye Smith

Canada Part V: Scenes from Canadian history: Historical note

Monument to Joseph Brant, photograph p. 152

When Tecumseh met General Brock (1812), by Walter R. Nursey

Laura Secord, a heroine of the war of 1812 (1813), by Rev. J. O. Miller

The battle of Lundy's Lane (1814), by Agnes C. Laut

The cutting-out of the Caroline (1837), by John Charles Dent

Taken prisoner by the Fenians (1866), by David Junor

The Canadians on the Nile (1884-1885), by William Wye Smith

Canada Part VI: Stories of the trappers: Historical note

A Canadian boat-song, by Thomas Moore

How the Northwest Company lost Fort Gabriel (about 1820), by Sir Gilbert Parker

Shopping at a Hudson's Bay Company's fort, by H. M. Robinson

The trade into the north, by Aubrey Fullerton

Canada Part VII: The Canadian Northwest: Historical note

How Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean (1793), by Rev. J. O. Miller

How Canada acquired the Northwest (1869), by Eva March Tappan

How the Canadian Pacific crossed the Selkirks (1881-1886), by Frederic A. Talbot

A glacier in the Selkirk Mountains, photograph p. 228

The Canadian Northwest mounted police (Twentieth century), by W. G. Fitz-Gerald

How the Canadian Northwest awoke (End of the nineteenth century), by A. G. Bradley

Canada Part VIII: The Empire of the North: Historical note

The cable hymn (1858), by John G. Whittier

The bore of the Bay of Fundy, by Eliza B. Chase

How Dr. Grenfell was saved (Twentieth century), by George Andrews, one of the rescuers

Given to hospitality (Twentieth century), by Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Canada of the future (Twentieth century), by Agnes C. Laut

South America Part I: Stories of the Incas: Historical note

The stolen child of the Inca (before 1532), by Sir Clements R. Markham

Machu Picchu, a ruined city of the Incas, photograph p. 288

How Pizarro captured the Inca (1532), by William Hickling Prescott

The golden ransom (1532), by Charles Bradford Hudson

The execution of Atahuallpa (1533), by W. H. Davenport Adams

The hidden treasure of the Incas (after 1532), from the Spanish of Valverde

South America Part II: Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador: Historical note

The highest railroad in the World (about 1865), by Frederic A. Talbot

How to conduct a Spanish-American revolution (about 1860), by F. Hassaurek

The unconquerable Araucanians (Twentieth century), by Nevin O. Winter

The Christ of the Andes, by Nevin O. Winter

South America Part III: Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas: Historical note

The adventures of Columbus off the coast of Trinidad (1498), by Washington Irving

What Sir Walter Raleigh thought of Guiana (1595), by Sir Walter Raleigh

The story of Bolívar (1817-1830), by Lindon Bates, Jr.

The statue of Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, photograph p. 364

The sword of Bolívar, by Unknown

The Asphalt Lake of Trinidad (Twentieth century), by Lindon Bates, Jr.

Modern Columbia (Twentieth century), by Francis E. Clarke

South America Part IV: Brazil: Historical note

The discovery of Brazil (1500), by Robert Grant Watson

Why Brazil belonged to Portugal (1500), by Thomas Bonaventure Lawler

How King John VI came to Brazil (1808), by D. P. Kidder and J. C. Fletcher