Hochelaga; or, England in the New World. Third Edition, Revised. Edited by Elliot Warburton. Author of “The Crescent and the Cross”.
London. Henry Colburn. 1847. 8vo. 20cm, 3rd edition, in two volumes, xv,318,24, & iv,368pp. ads., lithographed frontis view, in the original elaborately blind decorated brown cloth, gilt spine titles, some slight foxing to frontispiece, one section which is sound is slightly jumped, a very good to fine attractive copy in the original cloth as issued. ~ With the iconic frontis illustration “Canadian Travelling”: C. Haghe; an artistic representation of winter travel in Canada in the 19th century. Popular in its day three editions appeared in 1846-47. Most linguists accept the word Hochelaga as a French borrowing of an Iroquoian term – either osekare, meaning "beaver path" or "beaver dam", or osheaga, meaning "big rapids", in reference to the nearby Lachine Rapids.
Waterston p78. One of the most sensitive and entertaining of all Canadian travel books, Hochelaga bubbles with a young bachelor’s interest in card games, food, sports, song, friendship - and ladies. In Quebec he found "the best waltzers and polkaistes I have ever seen." Like the Irish, Canadian girls seemed trusting, simple and pure. Picnic rambles on the St. Lawrence, with tea, lights, fiddles; beautiful rides through the c b bolours of autumn; the still and lovely forest, all made a stay in Canada attractive. The cold season brought sleighs ornamented with high hoops, bells, and rosettes, fur caps and pea jackets and buffalo-coats, and renewed social pleasures.
T.P.L. 2816. Major Warburton was in Canada on military duty from July 1844 to 1846. This work is a spirited narrative of his impressions of Lower and Upper Canada... published anonymously in 1846 with his brother named as editor. It was published posthumously after the author was killed in a fire at sea while on his way to make peace between Indian tribes on the Isthmus of Darien in Panama. very good to fine. Item #43212
Price: $300.00