Author: Joseph BouchettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada
Author: Joseph BouchettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Christie Seigneuries
Author: Francoise NoëlPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773563164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
During the period following New France's fall to the British, Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Christie acquired five seigneuries in the Upper Richelieu Valley. They continued to belong to the Christie family until well after the end of seigneurial tenure. Seigneurial property rights were used, Noël shows, to control access to land, timber, mill sites, and other resources. Because of the increasing importance of these resources in the colonial economy, the seigneury itself began to have a more important impact on the social structure of the colony. Significant changes in the management of the Christie Seigneuries came with each generation of the family -- changes that reflected the personality of the seigneur and the changing socio-economic conditions. There was, however, a persistent preoccupation with capitalist exploitation of the seigneur's domain property. Accordingly, Noël maintains, seigneurial tenure during the century of British colonial administration was important not so much because of its differences from freehold tenure but because of its similarities: it could be used by large proprietors to monopolize scarce resources. The role of entrepreneurial seigneurs in Lower Canada's socio-economic development is thus only one variation of the many forms of interaction between traditional rural economies and the great merchants of the staples trades -- a historical phenomenon common to all of British North America. Noël also contends that the relationship between seigneur and censitaire was paternalistic, operating in much the same way as the paternalism found elsewhere in British North America under other forms of tenure. This is a break from conventional English-Canadian historiography, which sees seigneurial tenure as one of the major distinguishing characteristics of Quebec's history. The Christie Seigneuries is one of the few studies in English on the last century of seigneurial tenure in Canada, and one of the few to examine a seigneury run by the laity rather than by ecclesiastics. Putting the seigneuries in a wider context benefits both the history of the seigneury and the history of pre-industrial Canada.
The American Bibliopolist
Author: A Deep Sense of Wrong
Author: Beverley BoisseryPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550022423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Shows the degradation of prison life and the triumph of the human spirit over overwhelming odds.
Seeking a Better Future
Author: Lucille H. CampeyPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459703529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Most emigration from England was voluntary, self-financed, and pursued by people who, while expecting to improve their economic prospects, were also critical of the areas in which they first settled. The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada. Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey considers why people left England and traces their destinations in Ontario and Quebec. A mass of detailed information relating to pioneer settlements and ship crossings has been distilled to provide new insights on how, why, and when Ontario and Quebec acquired their English settlers. Challenging the widely held assumption that emigration was primarily a flight from poverty, Campey reveals how the ambitious and resourceful English were strongly attracted by the greater freedoms and better livelihoods that could be achieved by relocating to Canada’s central provinces.
Giving Canada a Literary History
Author: Sandra DjwaPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573763
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Author: John Holland RosePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
For the Encouragement of Learning
Author: Myra TawfikPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487545258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
For the Encouragement of Learning addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose. Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the mass production of educational material. The book reveals that copyright laws were integral features of British North American education policy and highlights the important roles played by teachers, education reformers, and politicians in the emergence and development of the laws. It also explains how policy-makers began to consider the relationship between copyright and cultural identity formation once British interference into domestic copyright affairs increased, and as Canadian Confederation neared. Using methodologies at the intersection of legal history and book history, For the Encouragement of Learning embeds the copyright legal framework within the history of Canada’s book and print culture.
History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840
Author: History of the Book in Canada ProjectPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.
Cultural retention & demographic change
Author: Laurel DoucettePublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Three essays discuss the history, folkways and mechanisms of social change among the descendants of nineteenth century immigrants from the Outer Hebridean Islands of Harris and Lewis now living in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.