1. One of the best countries on Earth -- 2. Native peoples, Europeans, and a clash of cultures (prehistory-1663) -- 3. The age of New France (1663-1763) -- 4. British North America (1763-1850s) -- 5. Confederation and national expansion (1850s-1890s) -- 6. A new century (1890s-1929) -- 7. Trial of nationhood : the Great Depression and the war (1929-1945) -- 8. Cold War Canada (1945-1960s) -- 9. One nation or two? (1960s-1984) -- 10. Late twentieth-century Canada (1984-2000) -- 11. Contemporary Canada (2001-2010).