Download or read book Habitant Customs written by Mary Alice Downie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children’s writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general’s wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women’s experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.
Download or read book Sir George Etienne Cartier Bart written by John Boyd and published by Montreal, Beauchemin. This book was released on 1914 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Voices written by Mary Alice Downie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of writings by 29 Canadian women presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, and a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general to a fishermans wife in Labrador. All of which demonstrate how womens experiences helped shape this country.
Download or read book Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent and Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad written by W. H. Morton Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peasant Lord and Merchant written by Allan Greer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley – Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis – from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency; as in other peasant societies, the habitants lived mainly from produce grown throught their own efforts on their own lands. How the family-based economy operated and how the household was reproduced over the generations through marriage, birth, inheritance, and colonization, together form a major focus of this study.
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Download or read book Divergent Paths How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth written by Marc Egnal Professor of History York University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically explores how institutions (such as slavery in the South and the seigneurial system in French Canada) and cultural arenas (such as religion, literacy, entrepreneurial spirit, and intellectual activity) influenced development. He seeks to answer why three societies with similar standards of living in 1750 became so dissimilar in development. By the mid-nineteenth century, the northern states had surged ahead in growth, and this gap continued to widen into the twentieth century. Egnal argues that culture and institutions allowed this growth in the North, not resources or government policies. Both the South and French Canada stressed hierarchy and social order more than the drive for wealth. Rarely have such parallels been drawn between these two societies. Complete numerous helpful appendices, figures, tables, and maps, Divergent Paths is a rich source of unique perspectives on economic development with strong implications for emerging societies.
Download or read book From Habitants to Immigrants The Sansoucys the Harpins and the Potvins written by Jacqueline Lessard Finn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Habitants to Immigrants: The Sansoucys, the Harpins, and the Potvins, is the story of three French Canadian families, from the forays of the Carignan Salières Regiment in1665-66, to settlement in the Canadian wilderness, dependence on a family economy, the pain of epidemics and war, the loss of French Canada, the ensuing cultural conflicts, the end of available farmland, and finally, emigration to the mill towns of Massachusetts and the creation of a Franco-American diaspora across the United States. The chronicle of the Sansoucy, Harpin, and Potvin families reveals the strength of French Canadian families, parishes, and communities, their sorrows, limitations and joys. It is the story of generations of oppressed but resilient people in the context of the social, economic and political events of their times, their emigration and eventual assimilation as industrious and patriotic American citizens. The book contains oral histories, family letters, and photographs.
Download or read book From My Quebec Scrap book written by George Moore Fairchild and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists include Cornelius Krieghoff, R.J. Wickenden, H.W. Ranger, Birge Harrison, Horatio Walker, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Winslow Homer, James B. Hance, Charles Huot.
Download or read book French Canada and the St Lawrence written by John Castell Hopkins and published by Philadelphia : John C. Winston. This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crofters and Habitants written by John Irvine Little and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian plateau of south-eastern Quebec.
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