Volume 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. Huguenots in Florida (Early Spanish adventure ; Villegagnon ; Jean Ribaut ; Laudonniere ; Conspiracy ; Famine, war, succor ; Menendez ; Massacre of the heretics ; Charles IX and Philip II ; Dominique de Gourgues) ; Champlain and his associates (Early French adventures in North America ; La Roche, Champlain, De Monts ; Acadia occupied ; Lescarbot and Champlain ; The Jesuits and their patroness ; Jesuits in Acadia ; La Saussaye, Argall ; Ruin of French Acadia ; Champlain at Quebec ; Lake Champlain ; War, trade, discovery ; The impostor Vignau ; Discovery of Lake Huron ; The great war party ; Hostile sects, rival interests ; The English at Quebec ; Death of Champlain)

The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century. Introduction : native tribes ; Notre-Dame des Anges, 1634 ; Loyola and the Jesuits ; Pail le Jeune, 1632, 1633 ; Le Jeune and the hunters, 1633, 1634 ; The Huron mission, 1633, 1634 ; Brébeuf and his associates, 1634, 1635 ; The feast of the dead, 1636, 1637 ; The Huron and the Jesuit, 1636, 1637 ; Character of the Canadian Jesuits, 1637 ; Persecution, 1637-1640 ; Priest and pagan, 1638-1640 ; The tobacco nation, The neutrals, 1639, 1640 ; Quebec and its tenants, 1636-1646 ; Devotees and nuns, 1636-1652 ; Villemarie de Montreal, 1636-1642 ; Isaac Jogues, 1641-1644 ; The Iroquois, Bressani, De Nouë, 1641-1646 ; Villemarie, 1642-1644 ; Peace, 1644, 1645 ; The peace broken, 1645, 1646 ; Another war, 1646, 1647 ; Priest and Puritan, 1645-1651 ; A doomed nation, 1645-1648 ; The Huron church, 1645-1648 ; Sainte Marie, 1648, 1649 ; Antoine Daniel, 1648 ; Ruin of the Hurons, 1649 ; The Martyrs, 1649 ; The sanctuary, 1649, 1650 ; Garnier, Chabanel, 1649 ; The Huron mission abandoned, 1650-1652 ; The last of the Hurons, 1650-1866 ; The destroyers, 1650-1670 ; The end

La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. Cavelier de La Salle ; La Salle and the sulpitians ; The Jesuits on the lakes ; France takes possession of the West ; The discovery of the Mississippi ; La Salle and Frontenac ; Party strife ; The grand enterprise ; La Salle at Niagara ; The launch of the "Griffin" ; La Salle on the Upper Lakes ; La Salle on the Illinois ; Fort Crèvecœur ; Hardihood of La Salle ; Indian conquerors ; Tonty and the Iroquois ; The adventures of Hennepin ; Hennepin and the Sioux ; La Salle begins anew ; Success of La Salle ; St. Louis of the Illinois ; La Salle painted by himself ; A new enterprise ; The voyage ; La Salle in Texas ; St. Louis of Texas ; Assassination of La Salle ; The innocent and the guilty ; Fate of the Texan colony

The old régime in Canada. The feudal chiefs of Acadia (La Tour and D'Aunay, 1497-1643 ; La Tour and the Puritans, 1643-1645 ; The victor vanquished, 1645-1710) ; Canada : a mission (The Jesuits at Onondaga, 1653-1658 ; The holy wars of Montreal, 1642-1661 ; The heroes of the Long Saut, 1660, 1661 ; The disputed bishopric, 1657-1668 ; Laval and Argenson, 1659, 1660 ; Laval and Avaugour, 1658-1663 ; Laval and Dumesnil, 1661-1664 ; Laval and Mézy, 1657-1665 ; Laval and the seminary, 1662-1680) ; The colony and the king (Royal intervention, 1661-1665 ; The Mohawks chastised, 1666, 1667 ; Paternal government, 1665-1672 ; Marriage and population, 1661-1673 ; The new home, 1665-1672 ; Canadian feudalism, 1663-1763 ; The rulers of Canada, 1663-1763 ; Trade and industry, 1663-1673 ; The missions, the brandy question, 1668-1702 ; Priests and people, 1663-1763 ; Morals and manners, 1640-1763 ; Canadian absolutism, 1663-1763).

Volume 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. Count and Countess Frontenac, 1620-1672 ; Frontenac at Quebec, 1672-1675 ; Frontenac and Perrot, 1673-1675 ; Frontenac and Duchesneau, 1675-1682 ; Le Febvre De La Barre, 1682-1684 ; La Barre and the Iroquois, 1684 ; Denonville and Dongan, 1685-1687 ; Denonville and the Senecas, 1687 ; The Iroquois Invasion, 1687-1689 ; Return of Frontenac, 1689, 1690 ; The Three War-Parties, 1690 ; Massachusetts Attacks Quebec, 1690 ; Defence of Quebec, 1690 ; The Scourge of Canada, 1690-1694 ; An Interlude, 1691-1695 ; The War in Acadia, 1690-1694 ; New France and New England, 1690-1697 ; French and English Rivalry, 1693-1697 ; Frontenac Attacks the Onondagas, 1696-1698 ; Death of Frontenac, 1698 ; Conclusion, 1699-1701

A half-century of conflict. Eve of war, 1700-1713 ; Detroit, 1694-1704 ; Queen Anne's War, 1703-1713 ; Deerfield, 1704-1740 ; The tormented frontier, 1704-1713 ; The old régime in Acadia, 1700-1710 ; Acadia changes hands, 1704-1710 ; Walker's Expedition, 1710,1711 ; Louisbourg and Acadia, 1712-1749 ; Sebastien Rale, 1713-1724 ; Lovewell's fight, 1724,1725 ; The Outgamies at Detroit, 1712 ; Louisiana, 1697-1750 ; The Outagamie War, 1700-1732 ; France in the Far West, 1697-1741 ; Search for the Pacific, 1716-1761 ; The chain of posts, 1700-1750 ; A mad scheme, 1744, 1745 ; Louisbourg besieged, 1745 ; Louisbourg taken, 1745 ; Duc D'Anville, 1745-1747 ; Acadian conflicts, 1745-1747 ; War and politics, 1740-1747 ; Fort Massachusetts, 1745-1748

Montcalm and Wolfe. The combatants, 1745-1755 ; Céloron de Bienville, 1749-1752 ; Conflict for the west, 1749-1753 ; Conflict for Acadia, 1710-1754 ; Washington, 1753, 1754 ; The signal of battle, 1754-1755 ; Braddock, 1755 ; Removal of the Acadians, 1755-1763 ; Dieskau, 1755 ; Shirley, Border War, 1755, 1756 ; Montcalm, 1712-1756 ; Oswego, 1756 ; Partisan War, 1756, 1757 ; Montcalm and Vaudreuil, 1757 ; Fort William Henry, 1757 ; A winter of discontent, 1757-1758 ; Bigot, 1753-1760 ; Pitt, 1757-1758 ; Louisbourg, 1758 ; Ticonderoga, 1758 ; Fort Frontenac, 1758 ; Fort Duquesne, 1758 ; The brink of ruin, 1758, 1759 ; Wolfe, 1758, 1759 ; Wolfe at Quebec, 1759 ; Amherst, Niagara, 1759 ; The Heights of Abraham, 1759 ; Fall of Quebec, 1759 ; Sainte-Foy, 1759, 1760 ; Fall of Canada, 1760 ; The Peace of Paris, 1758-1763 ; Conclusion, 1763-1884.