Canada is the largest country in the western world: only Russia beats it on size. So rugged is some of its northern terrain that much of it remains unconquered. Heroic tales of travelers arriving in Hudson Bay or crossing the harshYukon in search of gold are not so far in the past. Look at some of the photographs in this book, and it could have happened last week.And yet within this massive land mass there are only six cities that have a population of more than a million. These cities all rose from a land that was inhabited originally by the people of the First Nations. Later the French came, then the British, and then came a proud independence.