The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier /
Gordon, Alan,1968-
Vancouver : UBC Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.
The sixteenth-century world and Jacques Cartier -- Forgetting and remembering -- The invention of a hero --Cartiermania -- Common sense -- The  many meanings of Jacques Cartier -- Decline and dispersal -- Failure and forgetting.
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.
National characteristics, Canadian