History of Canada/new France and Colonization 1534%e2%80%931763

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, canada and/or france:

    ... that there is no other way,
    That the history of creation proceeds according to
    Stringent laws, and that things
    Do get done in this way, but never the things
    We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
    To see come into being.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)