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Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness

by Stephen Leacock

These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, follows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world.
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Stephen Leacock

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English

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English

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1920

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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock  was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. H...

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