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Book Religion in Life at Louisbourg  1713 1758

Download or read book Religion in Life at Louisbourg 1713 1758 written by Andrew John Bayly Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three [Catholic] religious groups served the French stronghold of Louisbourg during the eighteenth century. They were the Récollets of Brittany, who acted as parish priests and chaplains; the Brothers of Charity of Saint John of God, who operated the King's Hospital; and the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, who conducted the local school for girls. [The author] establishes the secular and religious contexts of life in Louisbourg, and then traces the mixed fortunes of each of these groups.".

Book Life and Religion at Louisbourg  1713 1758

Download or read book Life and Religion at Louisbourg 1713 1758 written by A. Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-06-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J.B. Johnston establishes the secular and religious contexts of life at Louisbourg and traces the mixed fortunes of three religious groups: the Récollets of Brittany, who acted as parish priests and chaplains; the Brothers of Charity of Saint John of God, who operated the King's Hospital; and the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, who ran the local school for girls. Drawing on the extensive material in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, Johnston notes the groups' remarkable persistence in the face of personnel shortages, financial burdens, and conflicts with secular authorities and rival religious bodies. Not the least of their problems was the profound parsimony of the Louisbourgeois who declined to build a parish church or pay a compulsory tithe. Yet despite this independent stance, the author demonstrates, religion was at the centre of family and community life. Life and Religion at Louisbourg contributes substantially to the social as well as the religious history of New France.

Book Life and Religion at Louisbourg  1713 1758

Download or read book Life and Religion at Louisbourg 1713 1758 written by A. J. B. Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The July 1995 proceedings feature 64 papers presented by cereal chemists, geneticists, physiologists, and researchers working with pre-harvest germination, sprouting damage, and dormancy in order to help growers succeed in harvesting their crops before rain or fog induces pre-harvest sprouting and lowers the commercial value of their crops. The 1995 program develops more molecular approaches to sprouting problems than in previous years, and highlights international developments in gene location, plant processes at a molecular level, and new technologies to develop more efficient diagnostic and screening tests. Lacks an index. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Religion in Life at Louisbourg  1713 1758

Download or read book Religion in Life at Louisbourg 1713 1758 written by A. Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AJ.B. Johnston establishes the secular and religious contexts of life in Louisbourg, and then traces the mixed fortunes of the three religious groups that served the French stronghold of Louisbourg during the eighteenth century. These were the Recollets of Brittany, who acted as parish priests and chaplains; the Brothers of Charity of Saint John of God, who operated the King's Hospital; and the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, who conducted the local school for girls. Drawing on the extensive material in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, he notes the groups7 remarkable persistence in the face of personnel shortages, financial burdens, and conflicts with secular authorities and rival religious bodies. Not the least of their problems was the profound parsimony of the Louisbourgeois who declined to build a parish church or pay a compulsory tithe. Yet despite this independent stance, religion was at the centre of family and community life in Louisbourg, as the author demonstrates in a chapter devoted to the faith, morality, and popular beliefs of the town's inhabitants. The colourful military history of Louisbourg has been the subject of numerous books and articles, and the economy of He Royale has received close attention in recent years. This first comprehensive study of the religious aspects of life in this outpost of France's overseas empire contributes substantially to the social as well as the religious history of New France.

Book In Search of Empire

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  • Author : James Pritchard
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-22
  • ISBN : 9780521827423
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book In Search of Empire written by James Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive Empire is the first full account of how during 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.

Book Building the French empire  1600   1800

Download or read book Building the French empire 1600 1800 written by Benjamin Steiner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different ‘glocal’ styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation. Building the French empire gives a view of the French overseas empire in the early modern period not as a consequence or an outgrowth of Eurocentric state-building, but rather as the result of a globally interconnected process of empire-building.

Book Storied Shores

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  • Author : A. J. B. Johnston
  • Publisher : Cape Breton University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781897009000
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Storied Shores written by A. J. B. Johnston and published by Cape Breton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Breton Island has many claims to fame, yet far too few people are familiar with the rich and storied past of the coastal areas of Richmond County. For centuries the Mi'kmaq, and later the early European explorers and settlers, shortened their journeys between the Bras d'Or lake and the Atlantic Ocean by means of the narrow isthmus at St. Peter's. This portage area -eventually a canal - became a haul-over road in the mid-1650s. The portage area and the surrounding shores and waterways of Cape Breton were sites of early and prolonged interaction between the French and the Mi'kmaq during a time when dreams of expansion and empire among European nations, met head on with the realities of North America's aboriginal peoples. The busy corridor between Chapel Island, St. Peter's, and Isle Madame was the backdrop for a colourful and intriguing era of our shared histories. Storied Shores presents a history of that time and place - the story of the promise of prosperity and the hope for new lives and the story of the ravages of greed, rivalry, and war. A.J.B. (John) Johnston is a Canadian historian with many publications that deal with the histories of Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Acadia and Nova Scotia. He is a historian with Parks Canada, based in Halifax.

Book Seeds of Discontent

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  • Author : J. Revell Carr
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-07-23
  • ISBN : 0802777619
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Seeds of Discontent written by J. Revell Carr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly, the causes of the American Revolution are considered the Stamp Act and other repressive actions by the Crown against its colonies in the years following the French & Indian War. Some see the sources in the outcome of that war, when George III forbade settlement beyond the Alleghenies. J. Revell Carr takes a longer view, and in Seeds of Discontent, he locates the roots of the Revolution a century earlier. In the latter half of the 17th century, tensions between colonists and the Crown were strikingly similar, culminating in the Revolution of 1689. Though subsequent decades were relatively peaceful, the bitterness was not forgotten, and friction began to build throughout the 1720s and 30s, reaching a peak after the famed 1745 battle for Louisbourg, the seemingly impregnable French fortress in Nova Scotia. Won on England's behalf at great cost to the largely American-born strike force, it was given back to France two years later in return for French concessions in the Caribbean-an act that outraged politicians, citizens, and soldiers alike. Bringing to life the two generations that inspired our Founding Fathers, Revell Carr illuminates an eventful century largely ignored by historians.

Book Aspects of Louisbourg

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  • Author : Eric Krause
  • Publisher : Cape Breton University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780920336762
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Aspects of Louisbourg written by Eric Krause and published by Cape Breton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspects of Louisbourg is an eclectic collection of essays that considers the economic, social, military, and commemorative events in the lives of the people of Louisbourg. From the rugged life of an 18th -century fishing family, to gardens and material culture, to today's commemorative activities, these essays paint a picture of the life of Louisbourg.

Book Canada s Religions

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  • Author : Robert Choquette
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 2004-02-24
  • ISBN : 0776618474
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Canada s Religions written by Robert Choquette and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Aboriginal, or one of dozens of other religions - faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, Robert Choquette offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the ongoing tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves.

Book Majesty in Canada

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  • Author : Colin MacMillan Coates
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2006-02-04
  • ISBN : 1550025864
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Majesty in Canada written by Colin MacMillan Coates and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Canadians have understood their ties to royalty and how the regal principle influenced our national identity.

Book Masterless Mistresses

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  • Author : Emily Clark
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0807839035
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Masterless Mistresses written by Emily Clark and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less welcoming. Emily Clark explores the transformations required of the Ursulines as their distinctive female piety collided with slave society, Spanish colonial rule, and Protestant hostility. The Ursulines gained prominence in New Orleans through the social services they provided--schooling, an orphanage, and refuge for abused and widowed women--which also allowed them a self-sustaining level of corporate wealth. Clark traces the conflicts the Ursulines encountered through Spanish colonial rule (1767-1803) and after the Louisiana Purchase, as Protestants poured into Louisiana and were dismayed to find a powerful community of self-supporting women and a church congregation dominated by African Americans. The unmarried nuns contravened both the patriarchal order of the slaveholding American South and the Protestant construction of femininity that supported it. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, Masterless Mistresses exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.

Book Louisbourg

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  • Author : Susan Young de Biagi
  • Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
  • Release : 2010-07-30
  • ISBN : 0887809057
  • Pages : 75 pages

Download or read book Louisbourg written by Susan Young de Biagi and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and historian Susan Young de Biagi relates the fascinating story of Louisbourg's birth, growth and eventual destruction, accompanied by stunning new colour photography of the site.

Book French Missionaries in Acadia Nova Scotia  1654 1755

Download or read book French Missionaries in Acadia Nova Scotia 1654 1755 written by Matteo Binasco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It provides a new understanding of the role played by the French missionaries in the most peripheral and less populated area of Canada during the colonial period. The decision to focus on this period is dictated by the need to investigate how and to which extent the French missionaries sought to carry out their activity within a contested territory which was exposed to the pressures coming out of both French and British imperial interests.

Book Endgame 1758

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  • Author : A. J. B. Johnston
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 080320986X
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Endgame 1758 written by A. J. B. Johnston and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. This book presents the dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home.

Book Canadian History  Beginnings to Confederation

Download or read book Canadian History Beginnings to Confederation written by Martin Brook Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Book A History of Canadian Catholics

Download or read book A History of Canadian Catholics written by Terence J. Fay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the first 400 years of Catholic life in Canada.