This book offers a detailed and engaging overview of the history of Canada's indigenous peoples. Written with Leacock's characteristic wit and insight, it provides a fascinating portrait of the cultures, traditions, and struggles of Canada's First Nations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Stephen Leacock shot to popular acclaim as a humor writer prone to penning absurdist vignettes and other mirthful morsels. However, he was trained as a political economist and spent much of his life working in this and several other academic disciplines. The collaborative volume The Dawn of Canadian History showcases Leacock's strengths as a scholar and thinker.

The Dawn of Canadian History by Stephen Butler Leacock is about native Canadian people and the immigration of white settlers from the perspective of the early 1900s. Contents: "I. Before The Dawn II. Man in America III. The Aborigines of Canada IV. The Legend of the Norsemen V. The Bristol Voyages VI. Forerunners of Jacques Cartier BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX."

A terribly dry summary of early Canada to the time of Champlain, it comes complete with the casually racist language of the early twentieth century in the sections concerning First Nations peoples.Stephen Butler Leacock (December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944) was a Canadian political scientist, and writer and humourist. He was extremely popular around the world, indeed, between 1915 and 1925 he was the most popular and widely read humourist in the English-speaking world.