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== First Book == | == First Book == | ||
= | <div align="center">'''Preface'''</div> | ||
'''Tuesday, 13 March 1838.''' Important events which must hold a salient place in the history of Canada have just occurred. Civil war has burst in the British provinces of North America. | '''Tuesday, 13 March 1838.''' Important events which must hold a salient place in the history of Canada have just occurred. Civil war has burst in the British provinces of North America. | ||
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I will begin the diary with the recapitulation and relation of the events which my unfortunate fatherland has experienced since a few years, though I only started to write on loose leaves, on the road to the United States and, in this book, only today. | I will begin the diary with the recapitulation and relation of the events which my unfortunate fatherland has experienced since a few years, though I only started to write on loose leaves, on the road to the United States and, in this book, only today. | ||
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<div align="center">'''A few words on the political history of Canada from the Conquest to our present days'''</div> | |||
Since treason, weakness, or indifference, made Canada pass under English domination, this province was almost always badly governed: almost always its inhabitants have had complaints, prayers, protests to deposit at the foot of the throne, and almost every time these prayers and these complaints were pushed back with arrogance. Often, they only served to redouble the power's persecutions and injustices. | Since treason, weakness, or indifference, made Canada pass under English domination, this province was almost always badly governed: almost always its inhabitants have had complaints, prayers, protests to deposit at the foot of the throne, and almost every time these prayers and these complaints were pushed back with arrogance. Often, they only served to redouble the power's persecutions and injustices. | ||