Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2018] Stephen LEACOCK (1869 - 1944) Unknown - 2018

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. CHAPTER I</br></br></br></br>BEFORE THE DAWN</br></br></br></br>We always speak of Canada as a new country. In one sense, of course, this is true. The settlement of Europeans on Canadian soil dates back only three hundred years. Civilization in Canada is but a thing of yesterday, and its written history, when placed beside the long millenniums of the recorded annals of European and Eastern peoples, seems but a little span.</br></br>But there is another sense in which the Dominion of Canada, or at least part of it, is perhaps the oldest country in the world. According to the Nebular Theory the whole of our planet was once a fiery molten mass gradually cooling and hardening itself into the globe we know. On its surface moved and swayed a liquid sea glowing with such a terrific heat that we can form no real idea of its intensity. As the mass cooled, vast layers of vapour, great beds of cloud, miles and… Leer más