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. [Illustration] +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 of 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; AND THE RIVER ST. 78 LAWRENCE 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 Monsieur de Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a Colony of French in America.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER I.