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This revised and enlarged edition comprises a selection of material from the two original volumes: Famous Canadian Stories and More Famous Canadian Stories
v. 1. Champlain / N. E. Dionne. -- v. 2. Count Frontenac / William D. Le Sueur. -- v. 3. Lord Dorechester / A. G. Bradley. -- v. 4. John Graves Simcoe / Duncan Campbell Scott. -- v. 5. Mackenzie Selkirk Simpson / George Bryce. -- v. 6. William Lyon Mackenzie / Charles Lindsey. -- v. 7. Joseph Howe / J. W. Longley. -- v. 8. Egerton Ryerson / Nathanael Burwash. -- v. 9. Sir John A. Macdonald / George R. Parkin. -- v. 10. George Brown / John Lewis. -- v. 11. Index and dictionary of Canadian history / Lawrence J. Burpee
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