Excerpt from Canada and Its Provinces, Vol. 15: A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions During the first part of the eighteenth century the supremacy of Quebec was recognized over a vast area extend ing from the Atlantic coast to the head of the Great Lakes. Later on it Spread out in a north-westerly direction, until La Verendrye sighted the Rockies in 1743. The region along the Mississippi and Louisiana also received its first colonists from New France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.