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February 01, 2026

Bloody Tales of the French Traveler

An excerpt from James Pew's book-in-progress “What Happened To Canada?”

This section covers a recent English translation of a 1768 edition of a travel book from a series which first appeared in volumes starting around 1765–1766, called The French Traveler, published by French Priest Joseph Delaporte. A prolific writer and compiler, Abbe Delaporte put together this volume as a compendium of well known travel accounts to Canada long before there existed any prohibitions on terminology. Back in those days, many explorers and settlers simply called things as they saw them. As noted previously, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, not only were there no restrictions on the word “savage,” it was in fact, a very plain and commonly used term to describe uncivilized people wherever they may be found.
https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/bloody-tales-of-the-french-traveler

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