Excerpt from Canadian Archeology: An Essay Few are aware that in the last decade an important department has been formed in Ottawa, which in an indirect way will have no little influence on our political future. A people become to a great extent what their education makes them, and education in no small degree consists in the just appreciation of past experience. Certainly such is the process of political development. For however fascinating the narra tive of history, the profit of its study lies in its teaching. There is but one mode of assuring historical truth, and that is by the collection of contemporary documents systematically arranged and kept in such security that they cannot be tam pered with or destroyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.