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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jean-Claude Dubé. The Chevalier de Montmagny (1601–1657): First Governor of New France. Translated by Elizabeth Rapley. (French America Collection, number 10.) Ottawa, Ontario: University of Ottawa Press. 2005. Pp. xxvi, 381. Cloth $65.00, paper $35.00.

Jean-Claude Dubé is well known for his biographies of eighteenth-century French colonial intendants. Writing an account of Canada's first titular governor in the 1600s posed two challenges. Charles Huault de Montmagny followed the famous Samuel de Champlain, and he will always be compared with the admired explorer-administrator. Moreover, Champlain left a series of books and letters that make it easy to delineate his character. Dubé worked with more limited sources. The administrative papers of Montmagny's regime were mostly destroyed, and there is no series of private letters to disclose the inner man—although his actions testify to an intense religious devotion. The author has had to piece together Montmagny's story from church records, notarial documents, a few official dispatches, and the published letters of missionaries and a nun. His account of the governor's activities in Canada is often a paraphrase of the Jesuits' annual reports.

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