Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Archives
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Excerpt from Thirteenth Report of the Bureau of Archives: For the Province of Ontario Following the precedents of 1904 and 1908 when the Report on the U. E. L. claims in Canada, and "Huronia," by Rev. A. E. Jones, LL. D., were issued by the Ontario Bureau of Archives, this year La Rochefoucault´s Travels in Upper Canada is published. The Bureau gratefully makes its acknowledgments to Professor J. Watson Bain, B. A. Sc., Toronto University, to whom it is indebted for permission to publish this most valuable material; and to whose father, the late James Bain, D. C. L., Chief Librarian of Toronto, the Ontario Archives owed much in years gone by. La Rochefoucault-Liancourt visited Upper Canada in 1795. The account of his travels was given to the world in 1799, followed in the same year by a translation by Henry Neuman. This translation was rather disappointing and when it reached Upper Canada naturally aroused anger in the young community in which personal attachment to Governor Simcoe was still strong. David William Smith, who had occupied a number of public offices including that of Surveyor-General, and was one of the best informed officials of the Province, traversed the narrative minutely and embodied his criticisms and corrections in a deliberately prepared manuscript, which for preservation he bound up with his copy of Neuman´s translation. It forms part of this volume and for the first time is now made public as has been said through the courtesy of Professor Bain. With a readiness characteristic of him where the history of his native Province is concerned the Honourable Mr. Justice Riddell undertook the task of editing the material thus made available. As a French scholar and as a keen student of Canadian history he has easily held an even balance between the author and the translator on the one hand and between the translator and the critic on the other, while adding much of real value to the work in his corrections and general notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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