The Champlain Society Findings/Trouvailles May 2018

 

“[I]nsulting him mightily”: Gabriel Franchère’s Retelling of the Destruction
of the Tonquin

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The Editorial Committee of Findings/Trouvailles occasionally draws on the
Society's many publications to share a "find" from one of our volumes.
Patrice Dutil did this in January with "
<https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/findings-trouvailles/2018/01/dem
anding-to-be-involved-black-volunteers-in-the-first-world-war> Demanding to
be Involved: Black Volunteers in the First World War," an adaptation of
Barbara Wilson's publication, and for our May post I have enjoyed revisiting
the work of W. Kaye Lamb to bring you "'[I]nsulting him mightily': Gabriel
Franchère’s Retelling of the Destruction of the Tonquin."

 

In Lamb's volume,
<https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/9781442618039_2>
Journal of a Voyage on the North West Coast of North America during the
Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, he compiled the writings of Gabriel
Franchère, which he "found" in the Canadian History & Manuscript Section of
the Toronto Public Libraries. The excerpt in this month's
Findings/Trouvailles post includes a lightly edited version of Lamb's
introduction to the Tonquin and Franchère’s account of its destruction, as
reportedly told to him by the only survivor, an Indigenous interpreter named
Joseachal. Lamb's Champlain Society volume appeared in 1969 and since then
several historians have revisited Joseachal's account, as told by Franchère,
and citations for their work appear in the Further Reading section, as does
a media account that includes twenty-first-century Indigenous perspectives
on the event.

 

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Thank you for reading!

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