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Yankee in Canada (1866)

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A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
by Henry David Thoreau
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A

YANKEE IN CANADA,

WITH

ANTI-SLAVERY AND REFORM
PAPERS.

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."


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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