1. The Scottish-born Montréal schoolteacher Andrew Spedon lamented Canada's self-representation as that of "an affrighted child ... crouching behind the forest shadows of the savage age," when he described his country's exhibit at the 1867 Paris exposition in Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris, by Way of the British Isles, During the Summer of 1867 (1868).

Ainsi, dans ses Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris, by Way of the British Isles, During the Summer of 1867 (1868), Andrew Spedon, un enseignant de Montréal originaire d'Écosse, dénonce l'image que le Canada projette de lui-même à l'Exposition de Paris de 1867. Il la décrit comme étant celle d'« un enfant apeuré [...] tapi derrière les ombres de la forêt des temps primitifs ».