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The War Chief of the Ottawas
Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936) was a Canadian author, born at Chatham, New Brunswick, and educated at Queens University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1901 to devote himself to literature. He was editorial writer of the Ottawa Free Press (1905) and office editor of Canada and Its Provinces (1914-15), a publication in 22 volumes on the history of Canada. His works include: Stories of New France (with A. M. Machar) (1890), Heroes of Canada (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Stories From Canadian History (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Marguerite de Roberval: A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier (1899), Canadas Sons on Kopje and Veldt (1900), Life of Lord Roberts (1901), Presidents of the United States (1903), Brock: The Hero of Upper Canada (1912), English-Canadian Literature (1913), The War Chief of the Ottawas (1915), The Jesuit Missions: Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness (1916), The Cathedral (1924), The Kings Wish (1924) and The Cathedral and Other Poems (1936).
Marguerite De Roberval
Reproduction of the original: Marguerite De Roberval by T.G Marquis
The War Chief of the Ottawas
Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936) was a Canadian author, born at Chatham, New Brunswick, and educated at Queen s University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1901 to devote himself to literature. He was editorial writer of the Ottawa Free Press (1905) and office editor of Canada and Its Provinces (1914-15), a publication in 22 volumes on the history of Canada. His works include: Stories of New France (with A. M. Machar) (1890), Heroes of Canada (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Stories From Canadian History (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Marguerite de Roberval: A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier (1899), Canada s Sons on Kopje and Veldt (1900), Life of Lord Roberts (1901), Presidents of the United States (1903), Brock: The Hero of Upper Canada (1912), English-Canadian Literature (1913), The War Chief of the Ottawas (1915), The Jesuit Missions: Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness (1916), The Cathedral (1924), The King s Wish (1924) and The Cathedral and Other Poems (1936).
The War Chief of the Ottawas
The War Chief of the Ottawas is a Native American history text by Thomas Guthrie Marquis. There was rejoicing throughout the Thirteen Colonies, in the month of September 1760, when news arrived of the capitulation of Montreal. Bonfires flamed forth and prayers were offered up in the churches and meeting-houses in gratitude for deliverance from a foe that for over a hundred years had harried and had caused the Indians to harry the frontier settlements. The French armies were defeated by land; the French fleets were beaten at sea. The troops of the enemy had been removed from North America, and so powerless was France on the ocean that, even if success should crown her arms on the European continent, where the Seven Years' War was still raging, it would be impossible for her to transport a new force to America.
Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness
These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism. John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite represented by the members of the Royal Society, he described his work as ‘a monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion,’ describing ‘the progress of culture in a country still struggling with the difficulties of the material development of half a continent.’ Two decades later, Tho...
Marguerite de Roberval (Esprios Classics)
Thomas Guthrie Marquis (July 7, 1864-April 1, 1936) was a Canadian historian. Marquis was born in Chatham, New Brunswick. His parents were Hugh P. Marquis and Mary McIndoe. His father was employed in the shipbuilding industry. He attended school in Chatham but at age 16 he went to Queen's University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1901 to devote himself to literature. He worked briefly in Ottawa as an editorial writer with the Ottawa Free Press but went to Toronto where he worked as a freelance writer. He was office editor of Canada and Its Provinces (1914-15), a publication in 22 volumes on the history of Canada.
Settling and Unsettling Memories
Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field. With increasing debates surrounding how societies should publicly commemorate events and people, Settling and Unsettling Memories helps readers appreciate the challenges inherent in presenting the past. Prominent and emerging scholars explore the ways in which Canadian memory has been put into action across a variety of communities, regions, and time periods. Through high-quality essays touching on the central questions of historical consciousness and collective memory, this collection makes a significant contribution to a rapidly growing field.
