Champlain Society: 4 books

During David Thompson’s expeditions to Western Canada and the United States, he mapped 3.9 million square kilometers of North America, approximately one fifth of the continent. The Champlain Society’s David Thompson’s Narrative details Thompson’s personal account of his life and travels. His...

Two petitions were addressed in Canadian parliament on February 10 1859 requesting a contribution from the provincial treasury to fund a project to print original contemporary documents relating to the history of Upper Canada since Loyalist settlement. The United Empire Loyalists have been acknowledged...

Joseph François Lafitau is acknowledged as one of history’s most significant and interesting figures in the field of ethnology. Regarded as one of the first modern ethnographies, Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times, a publication of the Champlain Society,...

Joseph François Lafitau is acknowledged as one of history’s most influential and interesting figures in the fields of ethnology and anthropology. The second volume of the Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times exhibits the progression of Lafitau’s practices...