Marc Lescarbot - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

• His major work is Histoire de la Nouvelle-France. It had three editions, adorned with maps. It was widely distributed in France and abroad, and translated in 1609 into German and English, by Erondelle and Purchase, respectively. Often quoted, the work contributed to the European colonization work beginning in the 17th century. Charlevoix praised Lescarbot; H. P. Biggar has called him the "French Hakluyt", and G. Atkinson proclaims him "the best of the historians of New France." Lescarbot's book is considered one of the first great ones in the history of Canada. It was published in another edition in 1866, and translated again into English in 1907 by L. W. Grant.

• A production of theThéâtre de Neptune play was cancelled in Canada on Nov. 14th, 2006, its 400th anniversary, after complaints of racism inherent within the play.
• Replacing the re-enactment was a post-colonial version, where theatre activists from Montreal performed it on the original site of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, as Sinking Neptune.