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...every Canadian schoolboy knows, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac was a celebrated hero of Canada's colonial era. Schoolbooks honor him as one of New France's greatest governors, a valorous Indian fighter and a strong-willed defender of Quebec against the marauding British colonists from the south. Counties in Ontario and Quebec, a street in Montreal and even towns in far-off Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri bear his name. Frontenac's memory was also perpetuated in Quebec's famed Château Frontenac, by a statue in Quebec City and, until a recent brewery...
...Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...
...only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac was afraid to meet the Iroquois ; he sat in his Quebec château and let the colony's outer defenses run down. "[Because of] his weakness and irresoluteness in the face of danger," Eccles says, "no river was safe any more, every portage was a potential ambush...
Here is a primitive, dated 1898, picked up at a Canadian farm in the province of Quebec, and painted by an anonymous itinerant, who paid for his food and lodging with this painting [see cut]. It hangs in my waiting room and attracts considerable interest...
Next day, papers and politicians in his native Quebec told the Prime Minister the political score. Editorialized L'Action Catholique: "It will always be too soon to recognize Communist China." The Montreal Gazette pointed out that "Canada will not fall into the error of suggesting that the Communist government of China represents a free choice of the people...