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Cabot family home in Venice (1488) and their view across the harbour. The Grand Canal in Venice Strozzi Palace in Milan

The excellent and erudite book Fantasyland by Kirk Anderson points out an American tendency toward self-styling distortion. Most of that, such as the fairy-tale rendering of the pilgrims and the natives, is entirely their business. However, regarding the Age of Discovery, there has been an effective smothering of the truth – which, because of the inundation of US influence, has actually diverted Canadians from their own history, or left us with a diminished view of its import