Internationally, Canada's surely recognized as one of the greenest of states. For its citizens, it's becomea defining image of its youthful mingling among the mighty. Yet, prior to the 1960's, Canada was still littleknown outside of its national boundaries, save for its past as England's proudest colony. Its history,grandiose in close detail, in fact follows so much of the plight of the colonial venture in the Americas. Theterritory known as 'Nouvelle France' fell into Britain's dominion in the 1760's. Unlike other American talesof outsted metropolitan powers, the French-speaking population perdured. The term used to refer to thisperiod, 'La Conquete', is still ignored by most 'Anglos', not to mention unacknowledged by most indigenousnatives who lend to it a quite different meaning.