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Remembering 1759
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes. The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.
The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896
The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.
Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
No Better Home
No Better Home? brings together a unique combination of voices to question whether or not Canada is the best home that Jews have ever had.
Les traces de la Nouvelle-France au Québec et en Poitou-Charentes
Sous la direction de Marc St-Hilaire, Alain Roy, Mickaël Augeron et Dominique Guillemet Pendant un siècle et demi, la France et une bonne partie de l’Amérique ont vécu une histoire commune, celle de la Nouvelle-France. Au Québec et dans la région française de Poitou-Charentes, cette période s’est durablement inscrite dans les paysages, dans la culture matérielle, dans les archives et jusque dans la langue. Elle a ainsi légué un patrimoine considérable et laissé son empreinte dans les mémoires collectives française et, surtout, québécoise. C’est une partie de cet héritage, celle qui est perceptible dans les paysages au Québec et en Poitou-Charentes, que cet ouvrage invite à explorer. S’appuyant sur l’une ou l’autre des quelque 1 500 traces de la Nouvelle-France recensées sur les deux rives de l’Atlantique, les textes préparés par plus de 40 auteurs français et québécois convient à un voyage au carrefour de l’histoire et du patrimoine pour redécouvrir cette expérience commune et raviver la mémoire partagée qui en est issue.
Quebec 1759
After five years of disaster and defeat in North America King George II had found in James Wolfe a general who knew how to fight. The key to victory was the fortress city of Quebec. High above the St Lawrence River it had resisted all attempts to capture it. When the time came, the concluding battle was quick and bloody, full of bravery for both sides- both Wolfe and the French Marquis de Montcalm were seriously wounded. Yet neither had shirked from the responsibilities of the fateful hour- both knew that the events of that September morning in 1759 would decide the fate of Canada.
French-Speaking Protestants in Canada
Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them. This collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring historical perspective on this often misunderstood or forgotten religious minority.
Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870
She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad social space that included people of various ages. By examining the correspondence and diaries of francophone and anglophone middle-class families of various faiths, Noël presents touching stories of family life in the Canadas in the early nineteenth century.
The Church Confronts Modernity
The Church Confronts Modernity assesses the history of Roman Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, the Republic of Ireland, and the Canadian province of Quebec
Divided Loyalties in a Doomed Empire
The genealogy of the French-speaking members of the Lewis and Clark expedition can often be traced back to the times where the fleur-de-lys was flying over New France. The terra incognita was explored to gratify Louis XIV's lust for the brown gold of the fur trade. By the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the French were well integrated into the North American population. These men were instrumental in the success of the Corps of Discovery. Observers from the Montreal North West Company spied on the expedition for fear of American encroachments. New Spain sent in vain a French adventurer to capture Meriwether Lewis. The legend of the West has both French and American heroes in common among the coureurs de bois (white Indians) and mountain men.
