AL NOTE

While the present narrative is based for the most part on more recondite
and widely scattered sources, the most accessible volumes relating to
the period are the following works of Francis Parkman (Boston: many
editions): "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, Frontenac and
New France under Louis XIV, A Half Century of Conflict" (2 vols.), and
"Montcalm and Wolfe" (2 vols.). To these should be added, as completing
the story, George M. Wrong, "The Fall of Canada" (Oxford, 1914) which
dwells in detail on the last year of the struggle. All these volumes
contain adequate references to authorities. The last of Parkman's works
was published more than twenty-five years ago and later research has
revised some of his conclusions, but he still commands great authority.
In "The Chronicles of Canada" (Toronto, 191316) half a dozen volumes
relate to the period; each of these volumes, which embody later research
and are written in an attractive style, contains a bibliography relating
to its special subject: C.W. Colby, "The Fighting Governor" [Frontenac];
Agnes C. Laut, "The Adventurers of England on Hudson Bay"; Lawrence J.
Burpee, "The Pathfinders of the Great Plains"; Arthur G. Doughty, "The
Acadian Exiles"; William Wood, "The Great Fortress" [Louisbourg],
"The Passing of New France", and "The Winning of Canada." Lawrence J.
Burpee's "Search for the Western Sea" (Toronto, 1908) deals with the
work of La Verendrye and other explorers. Anthony Hendry's "Journal" is
published in the "Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada," series
iii, volume i. The latest phase of the discussions on La Verendrye are
reviewed in an article by Doane Robinson in "The Mississippi Valley
Historical Review" for December, 1916. The material relating to the
discoverer was long scattered, but it has now been collected in a
volume, edited by Lawrence J. Burpee for the Champlain Society,
Toronto, but owing to the war it is at the present date (1918) still
in manuscript. Much of what is contained in Mr. Burpee's volume will
be found in "South Dakota Historical Collections," volume vii, 1914
(Pierre, S.D.).

Additional references are given in the bibliographies appended to the
articles on "Chatham, Seven Years' War," and "Nova Scotia" in "The
Encyclopaedia Britannica," 11th Edition.

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