Canadian biography of john lambert
LAMBERT, JOHN – Dictionary of Canadian Biography...
LAMBERT, JOHN, traveller, author, and painter in water-colours; b. c. 1775 in England; fl. 1806–16.
John Lambert came to Lower Canada in 1806.
Canadian biography of john lambert
He was accompanying his uncle, James Campbell, who had been sent by the Privy Council committee for trade in London to promote the growing of hemp in the colony. It does not seem, however, that Lambert was in any way engaged in this project, which failed around 1810.
In 1806, well before that outcome, he set off on travels about the colony and in various American states. He may already have been been thinking of writing an account of his voyage. One thing is certain: it was as a perspicacious observer with a critical and extremely sharp eye that he carried out his tour, accumulating facts and anecdotes of all kinds.
Lambert remained in Lower Canada in 1806 and 1807, visiting Quebec, Montreal, and the towns and villages in between.
In each place he seems to have associated with the influential people and to have be