Illustrious visitors' commentaries on Quebec

Throughout history, Quebec received the visit of individuals who were already or would later become famous on the international scene. Luckily for us, some of those illustrious personages took notes of their travel and their conservation makes it possible for us today to get their impressions, feelings and opinions of our country and our people at various moments in history.

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831

Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian

Biography in Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville

The famous author of Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville left us some interesting notes of his 1831 visit in the province of Lower Canada, today the province of Québec.

• Notes taken in Lower Canada (1831)

Henry David Thoreau, 1853

Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and philosopher

• An Excursion to Canada (1853)