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Alan McNairn claims in "Behold the Hero" that hundreds of epitaphs were submitted to commemorate the death of James Wolfe after the siege of Québec. Was this kind of passionate popular reaction commonplace for a fallen british officer, or was something else going on?	3
How sure are we that legends of the "Tuniit " actually indicate the survivance of information preserved since contact with the Dorset Culture preserved through Inuit oral tradition?	3
I'm a colonist in New France in the late 1600's - how aware am I of the battles fought by Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville against British forts and trading posts in Hudson Bay?	3
How ready would have Jacques Cartier's translators have been to deal with an actual first contact with China, had they not ended up in New France instead?	3
When the Salem witch trials were going full swing, what factors prevented similar mass Hysteria from spreading into Canada? Or did it?	3
Who were the "Panis" slaves in New France? Are they Pawnee? How and why did they get preferentially enslaved instead of other native groups?	3
When, and through which route, did chiles first reach SE Asia?	2
What effect did the detailled and candid descriptions of police action against Blacks during the 1968 riots by Hanoi Hannah have on Black US troops?	2
how did foreign markets react to the nationalisation of electricity production in Québec by the Jean Lesage in the mid-60's?	2
Georges Cuvier was nominated Perpetual Secretary to the National Institute by Napoleon Bonaparte, and was also his Surgeon General. He was maintained in position during the Bourbon restauration. How did the Bourbons justify keeping him in place despite their conservative mindset?	2

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