The Founder Of New France

Author : Allan Greer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516826

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The People of New France by Allan Greer Pdf

This book surveys the social history of New France. For more than a century, until the British conquest of 1759-60, France held sway over a major portion of the North American continent. In this vast territory several unique colonial societies emerged, societies which in many respects mirrored ancien regime France, but which also incorporated a major Aboriginal component. Whereas earlier works in this field presented pre-conquest Canada as completely white and Catholic, The People of New France looks closely at other members of society as well: black slaves, English captives and Christian Iroquois of the mission villages near Montreal. The artisans and soldiers, the merchants, nobles, and priests who congregated in the towns of Montreal and Quebec are the subject of one chapter. Another chapter examines the special situation of French regime women under a legal system that recognized wives as equal owners of all family property. The author extends his analysis to French settlements around the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi Valley, and to Acadia and Ile Royale. Greer's book, addressed to undergraduate students and general readers, provides a deeper understanding of how people lived their lives in these vanished Old-Regime societies.

Author : Edwin Asa Dix
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1017877327

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Champlain, the Founder of New France by Edwin Asa Dix Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Helen Dewar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780228009405

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Disputing New France by Helen Dewar Pdf

From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in fishing, whaling, and fur trading, which they regarded as their customary right. In the seventeenth century these rights were challenged as France sought to establish an imperial presence in North America, granting trading privileges to certain individuals and companies to enforce its territorial and maritime claims. Bitter conflicts ensued, precipitating more than two dozen lawsuits in French courts over powers and privileges in New France. In Disputing New France Helen Dewar demonstrates that empire formation in New France and state formation in France were mutually constitutive. Through its exploration of legal suits among privileged trading companies, independent traders, viceroys, and missionaries, this book foregrounds the integral role of French courts in the historical construction of authority in New France and the fluid nature of legal, political, and commercial authority in France itself. State and empire formation converged in the struggle over sea power: control over New France was a means to consolidate maritime authority at home and supervise major Atlantic trade routes. The colony also became part of international experimentations with the chartered company, an innovative Dutch and English instrument adapted by the French to realize particular strategic, political, and maritime objectives. Tracing the developing tools of governance, privilege granting, and capital formation in New France, Disputing New France offers a novel conception of empire – one that is messy and contingent, responding to pressures from within and without, and deeply rooted in metropolitan affairs.

Author : Charles William Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X002529808

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The Founder of New France by Charles William Colby Pdf

Author : Peter N. Moogk
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870135286

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La Nouvelle France by Peter N. Moogk Pdf

On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence—literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America— and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. Moogk also found that many early immigrants to New France were reluctant exiles from their homeland and that a high percentage returned to Europe. Those who stayed, the Acadians and Canadians, were politically conservative and retained Old Régime values: feudal social hierarchies remained strong; one's individualism tended to be familial, not personal; Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and was as important as language in defining Acadian and Canadian identities. It was, Moogk concludes, the pre-French Revolution Bourbon monarchy and its institutions that shaped modern French Canada, in particular the Province of Quebec, and set its people apart from the rest of the nation.

Author : Charles William Colby
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547107521

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The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles William Colby Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain" by Charles William Colby. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Marc Lescarbot,Henry Percival Biggar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Acadia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025724894

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History of New France by Marc Lescarbot,Henry Percival Biggar Pdf

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416593331

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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.

Author : Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015019157844

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History and General Description of New France by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix Pdf

Author : Suzanne Desrochers
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143180258

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Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers Pdf

Laure Beausejour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. She dreams with her best friend, Madeleine, of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure is sent across the Atlantic to New France with Madeleine as filles du roi. The girls know little of the place they are being sent to, except for stories of ferocious winters and Indians who eat the hearts of French priests. To be banished to Canada is a punishment worse than death. Bride of New France explores the challenges Laure faces coming into womanhood in a brutal time and place. From the moment she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal) she is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who himself can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with Deskaheh, an allied Iroquois, Laure finds a sense of the possibilities in this New World. What happens to a woman who attempts to make her own life choices in such authoritative times?

Author : Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015071156270

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History and General Description of New France by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix Pdf

Author : Raymonde Litalien,Denis Vaugeois
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773528505

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Champlain by Raymonde Litalien,Denis Vaugeois Pdf

A lavishly illustrated book on life and adventures of the father of New France.

Author : Lisa J. M. Poirier
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815653868

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Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France by Lisa J. M. Poirier Pdf

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters by reimagining the meaning of kinship. Part micro-history, part biography, Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France explores the lives of Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings, enabling them to develop crucial relationships and build communities. Through the lens of these men and women, both Native and French, Poirier illuminates the historical process and powerfully illustrates the religious creativity inherent in relationship-building.

Author : Roger Magnuson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773563391

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Education in New France by Roger Magnuson Pdf

The first priority of French missionaries was the conversion of the native population. Education was an important tool in the evangelization campaign because they believed that conversion was best secured when preceded and underscored by religious instruction. As Canada evolved into a French colony the religious orders increasingly turned their attention to the education of the children of French settlers. The period saw the establishment of a number of petites écoles (elementary schools), a Jesuit college for boys, and several trade schools. As Magnuson demonstrates, provision for education in the colony declined during the eighteenth century. First, membership in religious orders dwindled, reducing their capacity to serve the educational needs of an expanding population. Second, as the population of the colony grew, with more inhabitants born in Canada than in France, different values and priorities developed. The written word, notes Magnuson, held less attraction for the Canadian, who preferred the active life of the frontier.

Author : Louise Dechêne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228007210

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People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada by Louise Dechêne Pdf

Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people. Overturning the tendency to glorify the military feats of New France and exploding the rosy myth of a tax-free colonial population, Louise Dechêne challenges the stereotype of the fighting prowess and military enthusiasm of the colony’s inhabitants. She reveals the profound incidence of social divides, the hardship war created for those expected to serve, and the state’s demands on the civilian population in the form of forced labour, requisitions, and billeting of soldiers. Originally published posthumously in French, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is the culmination of a lifetime of research and unparalleled knowledge of the archival record, including official correspondence, memoirs, military campaign journals, taxation records, and local parish records. Dechêne reconstructs the variegated composition and conditions of military forces in New France, which included militia, colonial volunteers, and regular troops, as well as Indigenous allies. The study offers an informed and ambitious comparison between France and other French colonies and shows that the mobilization of an unpaid, compulsory militia in New France greatly exceeded requirements in other parts of the French domain. With empathy, sensitivity to the social dimensions of life, and a piercing insight into the operations of power, Dechêne portrays the colonial condition with its rightful dose of danger and ambiguity. Her work underlines the severe toll that warfare takes on the individual and on society and the persistent deprivation, disorder, fear, and death that come with conflict.