Excerpt from A History of English-Canadian Literature to the Confederation: Its Relation to the Literature of Great Britain and the United StatesCanadian nationality, and that it may reenforce, in Great Britain, the principles which have made possible a Britannic Alliance. Above all, I trust that it may show the intellectual continuity of the English-speaking peoples and the fact that, in spite of their differences, they are unescapably one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.