[Footnote 38: Page 20.--Six volumes of Dr. Kingsford's "History of
Canada" have appeared since 1887. Volume i. embraces the period from
1608 to 1682; vol. ii., 1679-1725; vol. iii., 1726-1756; vol. iv.,
1756-1763; vol. v., 1763-1775; vol. vi., 1776-1779. Toronto and London,
8vo. For bibliographical notes on various works relating to the
political and general history of Canada see Bourinot's "Parliamentary
Government in Canada," 'Am. Hist. Ass. Papers,' 1891, App. References
are there made to McMullen, Withrow, Murdoch, Campbell, Hincks, etc.
Also 'Nar. and Crit. Hist. Am.,' viii., 171-189. As usual, the learned
editor, Dr. Winsor, supplies by his notes many deficiencies in the
text. Also, Edmond Lareau's "Histoire de la Littérature Canadienne"
(Montreal), c. 4, and Mr. J. C. Dent's "Last Forty Years; or, Canada
since the Union of 1841," c. 42, on "Literature and Journalism." Among
the later French Canadian writers who are doing excellent historical
work is Dr. N. E. Dionne, F.R.S.C., author of several books on Cartier
and his successors and Champlain. Mr. Hannay of St. John has written
a "History of Acadia," which has been well received (St. John, N.B.,
1879, 8vo.) The Abbé Auguste Gosselin is another industrious French
Canadian writer. Mr. Joseph Tassé, whose "Canadiens de l'Ouest"
(Montreal, 1878, two volumes) was distinguished by much research and
literary skill, has of late years devoted himself mainly to politics
and journalism, though he has found time to write several essays for
the 'Trans. Roy. Soc. Can.,' and a small volume, "38^{me} Fauteuil,
ou Souvenirs Parlementaires" (Montreal, 1891), a series of political
sketches, written in excellent French. A monumental work is the
"Dictionnaire Généalogique des familles canadiennes" by Mgr. Tanguay,
F.R.S.C., invaluable to students of French Canadian history and
ethnography.]