The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Young Seigneur, by Wilfrid ChâteauclairThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-MakingAuthor: Wilfrid ChâteauclairRelease Date: March 4, 2005 [EBook #15256]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG SEIGNEUR ***Produced by Wallace McLean, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Page images werekindly provided by www.canadiana.orgTHE YOUNG SEIGNEUR;OR,NATION-MAKING.BYWILFRID CHÂTEAUCLAIR [hand written: i.e. William Douw Lighthall]MONTREAL:WM. DRYSDALE & CO., PUBLISHERS, 232 ST. JAMES STREET, 1888.Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, by WM.DRYSDALE & CO. in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.PREFACE.The chief aim of this book is the perhaps too bold one—to map out a future for the Canadian nation, which has beenhitherto drifting without any plan.A lesser purpose of it is to make some of the atmosphere of French Canada understood by those who speak English.The writer hopes to have done some service to these brothers of ours in using as his hero one of those lofty characterswhich their circle has produced more than once.The book is not a political work. ...