"The text is rambling, leisurely, copiously descriptive, covering the history from the era of the voyageurs to the rounded development of French-Canada under English rule. The author uses his imagination to round out the picture, and fills his canvas with personalities. French-Canada today is shown through the record of a trip from Montreal to Quebec, in the telling of legends that have survived the years, in sharing personal experiences,in analyzing the religious,political, social and artistic aspects of French Canada." Kirkus Reviews.
Part of the Rivers of America Series.
The St. Lawrence first of series to have read in 2019.
v - 24 books planned for the Rivers of America series, first one published in 1937
v - in the end there were 65 titles published over 37 years
v - The St. Lawrence (1942)
v - illustrated by A.Y. Jackson
viii - Laurentian region
2 - map
9 - St Lawrence drops 223 feet between Lake Ontario and Montreal
22 - Ursuline community of Quebec
28 - Dufferin Terrace in Quebec
33 - tamarack - or Larix laricina. And the painting Tamarack Swamp by Tom Thomson (1915).
44 - Eunice Williams - taken from Deerfield when 7 or 8 years old ...
59 - 150 English ships with 12,000 men sail up the St Lawrence, lose battle of Montemorency (death of Montcalm) but defeat the French at Quebec in 1759
75 - thousand miles of river
76 - Scots to Montreal in the 1780's and 1790's
77 - canoe - Chippewa creation
79 - voyageurs
80 - the "Great Trace"
83 - canoe travel 60 to 80 miles per day
121 - fabliaux - of the Middel Ages
124 - The Haycocks of Le Tres Fort
127 - The Wolf of L'Echafaud des Basques
127 - Loup-garou
131 - The Farewell of Cadieu
142 - great white owl - l'hibou blanc
144 - pays d'en haut - high country
145 - facing the coffin and the dog
154 - "le pulp"
182 - woodcutters - "Bucherous" or slang gazasses
187 - Laurentian mountains
195 - wrack
204 - migration of the greater snow goose (hypercoreus nivalis)
211 - the eel (anguilla rostrata)
212 - weirs
214 - sturgeon / eturgeon
215 - "ganoid"
217 - sturgeon pen
218 - white whale / porpoise
227 - nightingale / rossignol
240 - purling
248 - Montagnais of Bersimis
249 - Algonquin
75 - "The St. Lawrence was no longer a highway of Versailles..."
78 - "This was the craft which was to make possible the opening and mapping of something like a fourth of North America."
144 - "It was a giant black dog with a coffin bound to its back."
165 - "The galerie, itself an institution, is the triumphal arch of still another very French-Candain institution, the rocking chair, le chaise berceuse."
166 - "Perhaps the most deeply rooted of all old-fashioned customs is the veillee, or neighborhood 'sociable', of the winter nights. This is simply a kind of local party given by some family at its own house, friends and neighbors being invited in for a good time of everybody's making."
178 - "By a kind of primogeniture sanctioned by custom though unrecognized by law, the eldest son in French Canada gets the farm, and should they stay with him under the paternal roof, the younger brothers must work for him and under him as family pensioners. The oldest son, l'aine, is a person of importance everywhere."
178 - "The result is that the 'colonization' movement, and the appearance of 'le colon' as a figure of the times."
