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An Excursion to Canada is a impressive work by Thoreau, completely different from his other works. Here he becomes an American tourist who shows far greater respect for America than Canada, while explaining the details of the chasm between the Church (Black colored) and the military (Red) in Quebec that Stendhal described in The Red and the Black colored in France. Thoreau comes in to the American snare of blaming French Canadians for not speaking British in their indigenous province of Quebec but places no criticism upon himself for not speaking France. He has much criticism of the Quebecois Canadians and gets into the ongoing British-America versus French-America controversies alive today. Like a great naturalist and surveyor, as well as botanist, he paints a particularly stunning picture of the St. Lawrence River and embankment. Something similar to DeTocqueville's Democracy in the us, but here Canada is the country under the microscope. Canadians and People in america should listen to this, as well as anyone interested in Thoreau.
