CLAIMING THE WILDERNESS : In the late 1600's, New France's growing populace includes shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and fur-trading expansionists. But fast paced growth leads to conflicts that threaten the new society. The heartrending deporation of Acadians is emblematic of the struggle to possess North America, which enters its final, decisive phase in the 1750's. BATTLE FOR A CONTINENT : Two decades of the mid 1700s shape Canada in profound ways. A conflict between England and France becomes a world war that engulfs the continent. French troops encounter a British juggernaut, first at Louisbourg, then on a farmer's field outside Quebec.