Yankee in Canada (1866)

by Henry David Thoreau

 

A

 

YANKEE IN CANADA,

 

WITH

 

ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM
PAPERS.

 

BY

 

HENRY D. THOREAU,

AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS,"
"WALDEN," "CAPE COD," ETC., ETC.

 

 

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1866.

 

 

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

 

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.

 

 

CONTENTS.

			PAGE
A YANKEE IN CANADA			1
⁠	Chap. I.	Concord to Montreal	3
	II.	Quebec and Montmorenci	18
	III.	St. Anne	37
	IV.	The Walls of Quebec	64
	V.	The Scenery of Quebec	78
ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM PAPERS			95
⁠	Slavery in Massachusetts		97
	Prayers.		117
	Civil Disobedience		123
	A Plea for Captain John Brown		152
	Paradise (to be) Regained		182
	Herald of Freedom		206
	Thomas Carlyle and His Works		211
	Life without Principle		248
	Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum		274
	The Last Days of John Brown		278

 

 

A YANKEE IN CANADA.

 

 

"New England is by some affirmed to be an island, bounded on the north with the River Canada (so called from Monsieur Cane)."—Josselyn's Rareties.

And still older, in Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan," published in 1632, it is said, on page 97, "From this Lake [Erocoise] Northwards is derived the famous River of Canada, so named, of Monsier de Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a Colony of French in America."