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Page 461
... French traders . Then Pierre Gaultier de Varennes , Lord de La Vérendrye , turned the flanks of the Fox and Sioux by proceeding by way of Lake Superior and the Rainy River to the Lake of the Woods and the Red and Saskatchewan River ...
... French traders . Then Pierre Gaultier de Varennes , Lord de La Vérendrye , turned the flanks of the Fox and Sioux by proceeding by way of Lake Superior and the Rainy River to the Lake of the Woods and the Red and Saskatchewan River ...
Page 494
... French institutions in the new political entity . The new British colony was , thus , to be administered by a governor and a council , using British criminal law and French civil law . Whatever the British government intended , however ...
... French institutions in the new political entity . The new British colony was , thus , to be administered by a governor and a council , using British criminal law and French civil law . Whatever the British government intended , however ...
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... French remains the sole medium of instruction ; Bantu languages are studied as electives at the secondary and higher levels . While edu- cation is officially mandatory from the ages of 6 to 16 , the bulk of children do not attend long ...
... French remains the sole medium of instruction ; Bantu languages are studied as electives at the secondary and higher levels . While edu- cation is officially mandatory from the ages of 6 to 16 , the bulk of children do not attend long ...
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