This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and in the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803

W.J. Eccles was a graduate of McGill University and received his graduate training there and at the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Manitoba and Alberta, and was professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He had been visiting professor at the University of Chile, Santiago, McGill, McMaster, and the University of Western Ontario. He was one of French Colonial History's greatest historians. 

ISBN: 978-1-554551-66-8

6 x 9, paperback

331 pages, b&w photographs and maps, table of contents, index

Published: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1998