Jul 4, 2021
In which, on our road to Confederation, we discuss he who was once known as 'French-Canada's National Bard'! Topics also include the situation in 1850s Canada, reflections on Confederation, and the Annexation Manifesto!
Patrick translated some of the French poems here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/translation-of-selected-octave-cremazie-poems/
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Further Reading:
- Condemine, Odette. Octave Crémazie, 1827-1879, National Library of Canada, 1979. http://parkscanadahistory.com/publications/cremazie-nelligan.pdf
- Crémazie, Octave. “Le vieux soldat canadien” (1855), Oeuvres complètes, Beauchemin & Valois, 1882, pp. 110-111. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Œuvres_complètes_(Crémazie)/Le_vieux_soldat_canadien
- Crémazie, Octave. “Le drapeau de Carillon” (1858), Oeuvres complètes, Beauchemin & Valois, 1882, pp. 128-137. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Œuvres_complètes_(Crémazie)/Le_drapeau_de_Carillon
- Fess, Gilbert M. “Octave Crémazie, a Late Defender of Romanticism.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 1925, pp. 73–80. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27533833.
- Hayne, David M. “Le Mouvement littéraire de Québec,” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
- McNairn, Jeffrey L. “Annexation Manifesto.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Scholl, Dorothee. “French-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack.” History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian, edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, New York, 2008, pp. 88–110.