Part of Tocqueville’s journey through North America (1831–1832) also included a detour to Lower Canada, which is hardly mentioned in literature. This is partly due to the fact that this tour did not last longer than two weeks (from August 21 to September 3, 1831), during which Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent two days in Montreal and ten in Quebec and its surroundings. On the other hand, the subject of Tocqueville’s main work is democracy in the United States. Social life in the former French and now British colony plays no role in it. Nevertheless, this journey sensitized Tocqueville to many subject areas of his works. These include the expulsion of Indigenous peoples, the struggle for the self-assertion of cultural minorities, the advantages and disadvantages of federal administrative structures, and, not least, differences in British and French colonial policy and colonial administration.