Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness: A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in CanadaBourinot, John George
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Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness: A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada
Bourinot, John George
Canada -- Intellectual life; Canadian literature -- History and criticism; French-Canadian literature -- History and criticism
[Footnote 20: Page 12.--"The History of Canada, from its First
Discovery to the Peace of 1763; and from the Establishment of the
Civil Government in 1764 to the Establishment of the Constitution in
1796." By William Smith, Esquire, Clerk of the Parliament and Master in
Chancery of the Province of Lower Canada. "Ne quid falsi dicere audeat,
ne quid veri non audeat." In two volumes, large 8vo. (Quebec, 1815.) He
was a son of the historian of the province of New York, who after the
war of the revolution became chief justice of Canada.]
JOSEPH BOUCHETTE.
[Footnote 21: Page 12.--The works of this eminent Canadian surveyor and
hydrographer appeared under the following titles:
1. "A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with
remarks upon Upper Canada and on the relative connection of both
Provinces with the United States of America." London, 1815, royal 8vo.,
with plates. Also an edition in French.
2. "The British Dominions in North America, or a Topographical and
Statistical Description of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward and
Cape Breton, including considerations on land-granting and emigration,
and a topographical dictionary of Lower Canada; to which is annexed the
statistical tables and tables of distances, published with the author's
maps of Lower Canada, in consequence of a vote of the Provincial
Legislature. Embellished with vignettes, views, landscapes, plans of
towns, harbours, etc.; containing also a copious appendix." London,
1831, three volumes, 4to., generally bound in two.]
MICHEL BIBAUD'S HISTORICAL WORKS.
[Footnote 22: Page 12.--"Histoire du Canada sous la Domination
Française." Montreal, 1837, 8vo. Do., 1843, 12mo.
"Histoire du Canada sous la Domination Anglaise." Do., 1844. The
third volume of the series appeared after the author's death, and was
published by his son, J. G. Bibaud, at Montreal, 1878, 12mo.]
THOMPSON'S BOOK ON THE WAR OF 1812.
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