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Heroic Beginnings with Donald Creighton

• 1973 ----- color ----- 57 min ----- 16mm
• (Images of Canada (CBC-TV) series) Noted Canadian historian, Donald Creighton, recounts many heroic beginnings including the first Norse settlement in North America; the founding of Port Royal in 1605; the establishment of Louisbourg in the 1750's; Fort Lennox; Kingston; John A. Macdonald, the Father of Confederation; the founding of the fur post by the Hudson's Bay Company on the Red River; the Cypress Hills Massacre and the founding of the national police force; the break through the mountains to the Pacific; Fort Victoria; the Trail of '98 and the Klondike Gold Rush; the search for the Northwest Passage and the St. Roch.
• Topics: (Canadian Studies, History, History: Canadian)

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