François-Xavier Garneau’s Histoire du Canada is published
F.-X. Garneau. Library and Archives Canada, 1933-282-1
1845 to 1848
Enraged by remarks by John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, about French-Canadian culture, the notary François-Xavier Garneau undertook to write a synthesis of French-Canadian history in three volumes. His Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu’à nos jours was published between 1845 and 1848. It was revised in 1852 and 1859. This work has been hailed as the most important Quebec book of the 1800s, and is read as a monument to “la survivance.”
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