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The Lady of Fort St. John
The Lady of Fort St. John

Chapter I · Chapter 1

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The Lady of Fort St. John

Chapter I · Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of The Lady of Fort St. John is here in full — 423 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.
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All rights reserved.
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available adjective US /əˈveɪləbəl/

obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service

From this reading “Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.”

Cambridge noun US /ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/

a university in England

From this reading “See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.”

Copyright noun US /ˈkɑːpiraɪt/

a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work

From this reading “See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.”

Houghton noun US /ˈhɔːtən/

United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)

From this reading “See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.”

http noun US /ˌeɪtʃtiːtiːˈpiː/

a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers

From this reading “See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.”

Images noun US /ˈɪmədʒəz/

plural of “image” — an iconic mental representation

From this reading “Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.”

Online adjective US /ˈɔːnlaɪn/

on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system

From this reading “Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.”

Riverside noun US /ˈrɪvərsaɪd/

the bank of a river

From this reading “See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.”

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09719

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

1891

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56888

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

7

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

773

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

994

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

AdeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

AlladjectiveUS /ɔːl/

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading All rights reserved.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

AuthornounUS /ˈɔːθər/

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

availableadjectiveUS /əˈveɪləbəl/

obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

bnounUS /biː/

aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

BostonnounUS /ˈbɑːstən/

state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

ByprepositionUS /baɪ/

showing who or what does the action

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

cnounUS /siː/

a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

CambridgenounUS /ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/

a university in England

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

Canadiana

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Catherwood

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

ConounUS /koʊ/

an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CompanynounUS /ˈkʌmpəniː/

an institution created to conduct business

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

CopyrightnounUS /ˈkɑːpiraɪt/

a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

Dollard

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

DR

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From this reading DR.

EarlyadjectiveUS /ˈɜːrli/

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

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ECO

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

Electrotyped

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From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

HnounUS /eɪtʃ/

a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Hartwell

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

HoughtonnounUS /ˈhɔːtən/

United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

httpnounUS /ˌeɪtʃtiːtiːˈpiː/

a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

idnounUS /ɪd/

a state in the Rocky Mountains

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

ImagesnounUS /ˈɪmədʒəz/

plural of “image” — an iconic mental representation

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

ItemRecord

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

MarynounUS /ˈmeri/

the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

MassnounUS /mæs/

the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Mifflin

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

NewadjectiveUS /nuː/

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

NotenounUS /noʊt/

a brief written record

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OnounUS /oʊ/

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

OnlineadjectiveUS /ˈɔːnlaɪn/

on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system

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org

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From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

originaladjectiveUS /ərˈɪdʒənəl/

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

pagesnounUS /ˈpeɪdʒəz/

plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

PressverbUS /pres/

exert pressure or force to or upon

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

PrintedverbUS /ˈprɪntɪd/

past form of “print” — put into print

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

reservedadjectiveUS /rɪˈzɜːrvd/

set aside for the use of a particular person or party

From this reading All rights reserved.

rightsnounUS /raɪts/

plural of “right” — an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature

From this reading All rights reserved.

RiversidenounUS /ˈrɪvərsaɪd/

the bank of a river

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

RomancenounUS /roʊˈmæns/

a relationship between two lovers

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

SnounUS /es/

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

SeeverbUS /siː/

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

throughprepositionUS /θruː/

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online.

UnounUS /juː/

a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

wwwnoun

computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

YorknounUS /jɔːrk/

the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

From this reading See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/09719?id=773b7c56888b994b Author of "The Romance of Dollard" Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1891, By Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

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