HISTORY OF TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN CANADA AND FRANCE.

The object of this enquiry is to trace the history of trade relations between Canada and France. Commercial intercourse between these two countries extends back to the very origins of Canada as it was France who first began with the colonization of the part of North-America that is to-day called the Dominion of Canada. Lack of interest in a colony which, though the source of wealth to a few adventurous and corrupted officials, was a burden on the treasury of the French King coupled with the misfortune of a lost war caused thecession of Canada to England. [...