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
I posted this here on May 7 and thought it was done "Went to public library to do my census and consistent with the luck I have got the long form. About 70 WOKE questions and questions that are none of their business IMHO as they don't care about real Canadians. I just filled out the number of residents as it is starred and then just kept hitting next until the end. Had a 15 minute timer and it took me 15 minutes. Could leave comments but by then out of time and patience. 🤮"
Imagine my surprise when a census worker showed up at my door yesterday because I hadn't done. She knew I had the long form and had it with her for us to complete and I told her when and where I filled out, even approximate time of day, and she asked for confirmation code so went to work trying to find. When you are rushed naturally can't find so said that I couldn't find. Found as soon as she got back to her car and showed her before she drove off. I can't hate this country enough as I know that because I only ...
