Download or read book Bride of New France A Novel written by Suzanne Desrochers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of Laure Beausejour, a young, French orphan, who is transported as a fille du roi to the new, but primitive, Canadian colony as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV that sent eight hundred young women abroad to marry settlers.
Download or read book Catherine written by Yvonne Campeau-Couture and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if in France in 1663? Would you put your life and soul in peril to save another from pain or would you fall in line and so as you were told? If you followed your heart, most likely you would end up excommunicated or worse, burned at the stake. This was the choice 15 year old Catherine faced. Helping her mother midwife since she was 10, this was the first time she had looked death in the eye, meeting it head on with an unforgivable act. Her life was saved when King Louie XIV established the Fille du Roi, daughters of the King; young women who would travel to the New World, and marry to populate this new community, all that was necessary to keep the men contented and the lucrative fur trade continuing to flow into the King's coffers. Between 1663 and 1673 over 700 women were sent to Quebec and Villa Marie (Montreal) to marry as quickly as possible. Although Catherine Paulo was a real woman and one of the first to travel to the New World, this novel represents all of those brave women and the history they created. From a harrowing sea voyage, a vicious assault on her life, encounters with Iroquois, winters harsher than ever faced in France, to trying to live under the newly established Rape Laws of France, life was violent and hard but also filled with joy and promise. As for Catherine, should she follow her dream or do as the King commanded? This was her choice and hers alone. This novel spans 58 years, the development of New France and the rewards and sacrifices of the "New Canadian" family.
Download or read book Diane of Ville Marie written by Blanche Lucile Macdonnell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Diane of Ville Marie" (A Romance of French Canada) by Blanche Lucile Macdonnell. 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.
Download or read book Bride of New France written by Suzanne Desrochers and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laure Beausejour grew up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. With her friend Madeleine, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure and Madeleine are sent across the Atlantic to New France as "filles du roi." The girls know little of their destination, except for stories of ferocious winters and men who eat the hearts of French priests. To be banished to Canada is a punishment worse than death. This haunting first novel explores the challenges that a French girl faces coming into womanhood in a brutal time and place. From the moment she arrives, Laure is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with Deskaheh, an allied Iroquois, Laure discovers the possibilities of this New World.
Download or read book The Trail of the Sword written by Gilbert Parker and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada in the Days of New France written by Edward Harold Borins and published by CNIB, [197-]. This book was released on 1971 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Canadian Skies written by Joseph P. Choquet and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Download or read book The Manor House of De Villerai written by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosanna Mullins Leprohon’s The Manor House of De Villerai, A Tale of Canada Under the French Dominion is a literary milestone—it is the first Canadian historical novel, in English or French, to rewrite the conquest of the French Canadians from the perspective of history’s vanquished. Its revisionary account of the fall of New France is framed around a love triangle between the heroine, Blanche De Villerai, her childhood betrothed, Gustave de Montarville, and Blanche’s servant, Rose Lauzon. Popular in its original serial publication and once widely reprinted in French translation, but now out of print, The Manor House of De Villerai is a long-overlooked Canadian classic. In addition to the text originally serialized in the Family Herald magazine, this Broadview Edition includes extensive documents on the novel’s reception, Leprohon’s historical sources and literary precedents, and maps and art from the period.
Download or read book Canadian Selection written by Alvan Bregman and published by Published for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and the Centre for Research in Librarianship, University of Toronto [by] University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romance of St Sacrement written by Grayson N. Sherwen and published by Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Print. Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth Century Montreal written by Louise Dechêne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-01-11 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dechêne's work, when first published, constituted a major milestone in the development of methodology and use of sources. Her systematic examination of difficult and massive documentary collections blazed a number of new trails for other researchers. Her judicious blending of numerical data and "qualitative" findings makes this book one of the rare examples of "new history" that avoids the extremes of statistical abstraction and anecdotal antiquarianism. Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal won the Governor-General's Award and the Garneau Medal from the Canadian Historical Association when it first appeared in French.
Download or read book The Great Peace written by Alain Beaulieu and published by Canadian Mus of Civilization. This book was released on 2001 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1701, negotiations were held between the French, their Native allies, and the Iroquois in the town of Montreal, the heart of New France, to sign the Great Peace treaty. This book recounts the story of this exceptional event in words and images, painting a picture of a legendary time in North America, when the most disparate cultures had to find a way to co-exist. The story is told through 11 fictional letters based on actual letters of Bacqueville de La Potherie, a privileged observer of the events. The book provides an overview of the history of northeastern Native cultures and French colonials. Accounts of the days leading to the signing of the treaty and the people involved come to life through detailed illustrations and artifacts.
Download or read book The Sun of Quebec written by Joseph A. Altsheler and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sun of Quebec" by Joseph A. Altsheler. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book French and English written by Evelyn Everett-Green and published by London : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1899 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book La Nouvelle France written by Peter N. Moogk and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
