The Habitant
Author : William Henry Drummond
Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 1902
Category : French-Canadian poetry
ISBN :
Author : William Henry Drummond
Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 1902
Category : French-Canadian poetry
ISBN :
Author : Mary Alice Downie
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2015-10-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1459734718
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.
Author : William Henry Drummond
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems" by William Henry Drummond. 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 : James Edward LeRossignol
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN :
Author : Louise Dechêne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 1993-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0773561722
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.
Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1678019828
Jane of Lantern HillLucy Maud Montgomery Jane of Lantern Hill is a novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. The book was adapted into a 1990 telefilm, Lantern Hill, by Sullivan Films, the producer of the highly popular Anne of Green Gables television miniseries and the television series Road to Avonlea.Montgomery began formulating an idea on May 11, 1936, began writing on August 21, and wrote the last chapter on February 3, 1937. She finished typing up the manuscript on February 25, as she could not hire a typist to do it for her. This novel was dedicated to "JL", her companion cat.The novel was written at Montgomery's house, "Journey's End"; the environment influenced Montgomery's writing to create a
Author : Félix Albert
Publisher : Orono, Me. : University of Maine Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Felix Albert was born in rural Québec in 1843. In 1881, after his farm and other business ventures had failed, Felix and his family joined the migration of thousands of other Québecois streaming into New England's industrial cities. The Alberts settled in Lowell, Massachusetts where the whole fsamily was able to find work in the textile mills. Although Felix was illiterate, he dictated his life's story to a parish priest and his story was published in French in 1909. The story recounted an experience which was re-enacted numerous times during the nineteenth century as an estimated 300,000 French-Canadians migrated to New England looking for better jobs.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : J. Little
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1991-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0773562710
The two groups arrived in Winslow Township in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern state bureaucracy was just developing in Lower Canada (Quebec). Little was therefore able to examine a wealth of material from the departments responsible for crown lands, public works, and education as well as comprehensive data from the registry offices and manuscript census reports. This state-generated material, as well as a rich collection of Catholic and Presbyterian church records and documents from Scotland, provides the basis for a detailed analysis of society, economy, and culture in one isolated pocket of colonization. Little focuses on settlement patterns, population expansion and mobility, family structure and inheritance, farm production and labour, the role played by local merchants and millers, and the cultural significance of religion and education. He documents the differences which can be traced to ethnic origin but emphasizes the many similarities which characterized the adjustment of the two groups. Economic development in this geographical area was severely restricted by thin soil, rugged topography, and a brutally short growing season, coupled with the government's favouritism towards monopolistic lumber companies. Two viable communities did, nevertheless, take root, each drawing heavily on traditional cultural values and a history of economic resourcefulness in order to survive in an era of emerging industrial capitalism.