Ron Peters's Reviews > History of Quebec: A Captivating Guide to the Largest Province in Canada and Its Impact on French History

Tena and I will be visiting Quebec, so I thought that reading a short history would at least help me recognize who’s who on horseback on statues. This is bad history writing, even making allowances for brevity. For instance, how can you have a history of Quebec without one word about Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec and “father of New France”? There are no more than a dozen words on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which resulted in the English taking control of New France. The pre-contact history of Indigenous people is so short that it over-simplifies to the point of being misleading. Racism toward the Chinese is discussed, but not toward Indigenous people or Blacks. There is no mention whatsoever of Canada’s history of slavery. And so on. Give this book a pass.