| Summary: | The Canadian multiculturalism involves, as a component, a syncretism of mythological representations. The mythology of the First Nations has often been assimilated to the European archetypes, as the narrative of the travel of the souls to the village of the Dead shows. Written down by the Jesuit missionary Jean de Brébeuf, this myth has been incorporated into modern literary creation, which is demonstrated in two examples: the novel Beautiful Losers (1966) by the Anglophone Montreal writer Leonard Cohen and the one by the Quebecois writer Jacques Ferron, Le Ciel de Québec (1969). Le multiculturalisme canadien comporte, comme composante, le syncrétisme des représentations mythologiques. La mythologie des premières nations a souvent été assimilée aux archétypes européens, comme le montre le récit du voyage des âmes au Village des morts. Noté par le missionnaire jésuite Jean de Brébeuf, le mythe se trouve incorporé dans la production littéraire moderne, comme l'indiquent deux exemples: le roman du Montréalais anglophone Leonad Cohen Beautiful Losers (1966) et celui du Québécois Jacques Ferron Le Ciel de Québec (1969).
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