“For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater… Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canada’s pioneer settlers were killing themselves with their own medicine. About Canada. Toronto: Civil Sector Press, November, 2012. Alcohol, North American Indians, Settlers, Canada” AlcoholCanadaSettlersNorth American Indians Book:About Canada: "My God, this is a great country." Source: About Canada: "My God, this is a great country."