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Charlevoix
When asked, "Where is Murray Bay?" US President Taft always replied, "Murray Bay is a state of mind." For over two hundred years the Charlevoix region has played host to some of the world's most famous and adventurous travellers. Considered the "Newport" of Canada, Charlevoix has been a meeting place for rural French Canadians and urban English-speaking visitors.
Cannibal Encounters
Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations. -- Robert A. Myers, Alfred University
Watching Quebec
Classic essays analysing the roots and growth of nationalism in Quebec.
Women and Narrative Identity
In Women and Narrative Identity Green demonstrates that the "national text" has at times functioned to constrain women's literary expression, while in other cases it has empowered the feminine voice, endowing it with a unique identitary power. She shows that writers such as Laure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert, and Marie-Claire Blais have been recognized as important because they have been widely perceived as speaking to and about the people of Quebec. The Quebec identity narrative has offered women writers a framework within which they are able not only to make their voices heard but to tell a story of feminine dispossession and desire that often questions central cultural values. Green shows that while women writers in Europe and America have subtly altered the form of the novel, in Quebec women have, in rewriting the narratives of Quebec identity, also redefined the terms of the nation itself.
Frenchmen into Peasants
In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century.
Sauvage
The treatment of Native peoples in Canadian history texts is currently the subject of some debate. This paper analyses the treatment of authors who have written on the period prior to 1665 – a period of tremendous importance as this period of first contact was when many of the stereotypes regarding Native peoples were developed.
Souvenirs et réminiscences/Glimpses & Reminiscences
James McPherson Le Moine (1825-1912), avocat et fonctionnaire, a consacré ses loisirs à l’ornithologie, l’histoire naturelle, l’horticulture, l’archéologue, la littérature et l’histoire. Passionné pour Québec et son histoire et son histoire, et écologiste avant la lettre, il fut dans plusieurs domaines un précurseur. Pendant plus de cinquante ans, son domaine de Spencer Grange, à Sillery, fut un carrefour de rencontres et d’échanges entre des gens de différents milieux et de différents courants idéologiques et politiques. Ses souvenirs et réminiscences d’enfance, de jeunesse, d’âge d’homme et de vieillesse favorisent une rencontre ultime avec ce témoin privi...
Le Québec et les francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Bilan des recherches récentes et en cours de part et d'autre de la frontière canado-américaine, suivi de sept témoignages.
