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Lamenting that there had been no scientific, objective study of Canada by anyone from the United States, Joseph Sansom commenced his travels through lower Canada in the summer of 1817 with the express purpose of finding out the "sentiments of the people, or the comparative situation and future prospects of that country." Providing observations of both the natural world and the human culture of Lower Canada, Sansom attempts to describe this area without comparison to her neighbor to the south. Sansom travels through the Lake Champlain region, Quebec, and Montreal, amongst other areas, while detailing the "Peasantry of Canada," a "History of Canada," the "Language of the Iroquois," and providing a "Description of the Beaver, in Canada." This is one of the first accounts of the people, places, and history of Lower Canada.
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Michael Greenspon
reviewed Travels in Lower Canada on March 18, 2018
Travels in Lower Canada
I recently read two histories of Gilded Age society that lifted heavily from this memoir, so when I found it cheap on Kindle I decided to check it out. Elizabeth Drexel was a wealthy young widow when she married Harry Lehr, the near-penniless jester desperately courted by society's mavens due to his ability to liven up their parties. On their wedding night he revealed he found her disgusting and would never touch her. In public, he was the most devoted of husbands. In private, he alternately berated her and hit her up for money.
Elizabeth decided a divorce would kill her ailing (Catholic) mother, so she and Harry stayed together for over 20 years. The book recounts several amusing anecdotes about the Vanderbilts and their ilk, revealing them as the shallow and in some cases nasty pieces of work that they were. Several of the anecdotes are quite racist.
The description on Amazon promises something more scandalous than what is delivered in the book: Excerpts from Harry's Secret Diary! In the penultimate chapter, Elizabeth writes about how she finally read Harry's locked diary after he died and discovered there "a love story".
Okay, I think to myself, here comes the dirt. Nope! The next chapter is an excruciating history of her house in Paris.
Here it is now, I comfort myself as I finally hit the diary excerpts at the very end...only to find extensive descriptions of the meals Harry ate when he was in Paris during WWI.
Is there a version of this memoir with diary excerpts that are actually, like...salacious? Can someone please let me know if so because I am a terrible person. Thanks.
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