Family Tree

The story of the settlement of Canada illustrated with cheerful animated cartoons The arrival of Jacques Cartier the fishing and fur trades which followed and the rival colonization by the French and British climaxed by the battle of the Plains of Abraham are depicted The coming of the United Empire Loyalists is seen then the westcoast gold rush and the completion of the transcontinental railway New branches were added to the family tree when many European settlers came to fill the great spaces of the Prairies Finally we see the whole country matured into a nation its traditions enriched by those of many peoples