The Dawn of Canadian History/Index

Alberta, remains of past ages in, 6.
Algonquins, their tribes, 32; physical description, 32; agriculture and industries, 32, 33; religion, 34; picture writing, 35.
Archean age, 3, 4.
Arctic seas, the islands of, tropical vegetation and life on, 8.
Athapascans, their tribes, 40, 41; their language, 41; cannibalism, 42.
Aztecs of Mexico, and picture writing, 25.

Banks of Newfoundland, fishing on, 82, 83.
Basques of the Pyrenees, 21.
Bathurst Island, evidences of a once tropical climate, 8, 9.
Beothuks of Newfoundland, their characteristics, 31.
Bjarne Herjulf, his voyage to Greenland, 54–6.
Bristol, voyages from, by the Cabots, 71, 72, 82; further voyages from, 83–5.

Cabots, John and Sebastian, 67, 70; history and voyages, 71–6, 79–80; their discoveries create a stir in England, 77–8; John, styled the ‘Grand Admiral,’ granted a pension, 77–8; Sebastian’s later career, 80–1.
Cape Breton coal-beds, 6.
Carboniferous era, 5.
Cartier, Jacques, 98; discoverer of Canada, 102, 105.
Columbus, Christopher, and his discovery of America, 11–12, 66, 67, 70, 71.
Continental sea, possible origin of the Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, and Mississippi rivers, 4–5.
Corte-Real, Gaspar, his voyage from Lisbon, 92–4; second voyage, 94–5.
Corte-Real, Miguel, his voyage in search of Gaspar, 96
Crusades, effect of on Eastern trade, 68.

Diaz, Bartholomew, his voyage, 91.

Eric the Red, founds a colony in Greenland, 51.
Eskimos, 21; relation to other races, 28; John Fiske’s theory regarding, 28–9; their boats, clothes, and modes of life, 29, 30; their beliefs, 30; in Greenland, 53.
Europe, relations with Eastern Asia, 67; effect of the Crusades on trade with the East, 68.

​Fiske, John, on the Eskimos, 28–9; on the Norsemen having visited America, 65.
Five Nations, 36, 39.
Francis I of France, his reasons for sending out explorers, 97–8.

Geology, its evidence as to mankind's early presence in America, 22–3.
Glacial drift, its path, extent, and where its stones are found, 7–8.
Gomez, Stephen, his voyage of exploration, 101–2.
Great Lakes, early area, 6.
Greenland, first settlement, 51–3.
Gunnbjorn, 50–1.

Henry VII, his interest in the voyages of the Cabots, 72–3, 77, 78; other voyages under him, 82, 83–4.
Henry VIII, his interest in western exploration, 82, 85.
Hurons, when Cartier discovered the St Lawrence, 35; their abode in western Ontario, 37; degradation of their women, 39–40; gluttony, 40.

Ice Age, effect of on the climate and soil of Canada, 7–8; evidences showing that men lived in, 23–4.
Indians, origin of the name, 12; theories as to origin, 13–19; their languages, 20–1; writing and tools, 25–6; canoe their one great invention, 27; treatment of their women, 39; tribes of the Pacific Coast, 42; estimated numbers, 43–4.
Iroquoian Family, 35; tribes, 30; physical and mental characteristics, 37–8; agriculture and settlements, 38–9; influence of their women, 39.

Karlsevne, Thorfinn, his colony in Vineland, 63; his son Snorre, first white child born in America, 63.

Legends concerning America, among the Greeks and Romans, 45; among the Irish, 46; the Chinese, 46–7; the Norse, 48–9, 55–65.
Leif, son of Eric the Red, his voyage, 57–9; discovery of Vineland, 59–61.
Livery Companies of London, 85.

Mankind, races in Old World and New, 19; languages, 19–21; evidences as to how long in America, 22–4.
Mayas of Central America, 25.

Nachvak, sea-beach at, 10.
Nansen, Fridtjof, his opinion anent stories of Norsemen having reached America, 65.
'National Name-Book of Iceland,' 50.
Nebular Theory, 1.
Niagara, possible origin of, 10.
Nicaragua, evidence of prehistoric man in, 22.
Norsemen, reputation as mariners, 48; story of their voyages, 49–65.

​Peruvians, system of recording events, 25.
Portuguese, voyages of exploration of the, 89–96.

Quaternary Age, changes wrought in the earth's formation in, 6.

Spaniards, voyages and discoveries of the, 89, 91.

Thorwald, son of Eric the Red, his voyage to Vineland, 62; death and burial, 63.
Thorward and Freydis, tragedy of, 64.
Toltecs of Mexico, and picture writing, 25.

Vasco da Gama, his voyage, 91.
Verrazano, Juan, his voyage of discovery, 97–104.

Wolsey, Cardinal, anxious to enlist merchants and trade companies in exploration, 85.