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Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged - Mount Royal, the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River - human intervention and urban evolution mean that over time Montrealers have had drastically different experiences and historical understandings. Significant issues such as religion, government, social conditions, the economy, labour, transportation, culture and entertainment, and scientific and technological innovation are treated thematically in innovative and diverse chapters to illuminate how people's lives changed along with the transformation of Montreal. This history of a city in motion presents an entire picture of the changes that have marked the region as it spread from the old city of Ville-Marie into parishes, autonomous towns, boroughs, and suburbs on and off the island. The first volume encompasses the city up to 1930, vividly depicting the lives of First Nations prior to the arrival of Europeans, colonization by the French, and the beginning of British Rule. The crucial roles of waterways, portaging, paths, and trails as the primary means of travelling and trade are first examined before delving into the construction of canals, railways, and the first major roads. The nineteenth century was a period of near-total change in Montreal: the population grew from 20,000 to over one million and it became Canada's leading industrial city. The second volume treats the history of Montreal since 1930, the year that the Jacques Cartier Bridge was opened and allowed for the outward expansion of a region, which before had been confined to the island. From the Great Depression and Montreal's role as a munitions manufacturing centre during the Second World War to major cultural events like Expo 67, the twentieth century saw Montreal grow into one of the continent's largest cities, requiring stringent management of infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation. This volume also extensively studies the kinds of political debate with which the region and country still grapple regarding language, nationalism, federalism, and self-determination. Contributors include Philippe Apparicio (INRS), Guy Bellavance (INRS), Laurence Bherer (University of Montreal), Stephane Castonguay (UQTR), the late Jean-Pierre Collin (INRS), Magda Fahrni (UQAM), the late Jean-Marie Fecteau (UQAM), Dany Fougeres (UQAM), Robert Gagnon (UQAM), Danielle Gauvreau (Concordia), Annick Germain (INRS), Janice Harvey (Dawson College), Annie-Claude Labrecque (independent scholar), Yvan Lamonde (McGill), Daniel Latouche (INRS), Roderick MacLeod (independent scholar), Paula Negron-Poblete (University of Montreal), Normand Perron (INRS), Martin Petitclerc (UQAM), Christian Poirier (INRS), Claire Poitras (INRS), Mario Polese (INRS), Myriam Richard (unaffiliated), Damaris Rose (INRS), Anne-Marie Seguin (INRS), Gilles Senecal (INRS), Valerie Shaffer (independent scholar), Richard Shearmur (McGill), Sylvie Taschereau (UQTR), Michel Trepanier (INRS), Laurent Turcot (UQTR), Nathalie Vachon (INRS), and Roland Viau (University of Montreal).
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A variety of productions and representations of Canadian identities are the central theme that runs through this book. The different contributions explore imagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetry and novels; they engage with political space by addressing various ways in which the people of Canada have made claims to different regions in the distant and recent past; and they address lived spaces, and their actual and symbolic meanings. It is an unusual book as it encompasses the writings by those studying the arts and literature as well as writings by social scientists, and it includes both English and French-speaking scholars. The richness that can be found in this multitude of perspectives and approaches to exploring Canadian space is characteristic of the way in which Canadian Studies is practiced nowadays. It is therefore an appropriate volume to celebrate 20 years of Canadian Studies in the Netherlands.
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• Introduction
• 1. The sea as barrier, the sea as highway
• 2. Empty land or stolen land? The colonial Strait
• 3. Resource mining by the sea : mining and forestry
• 4. Resource mining in the sea : fish and oysters
• 5. The strait as waste dump
• 6. Recreation on the restorative Strait
• 7. Conclusions and reflections on the twenty-first century Strait.

• Capa; Título; Página de créditos; Résumé; Abstract; Table Des Matières; Liste Des Tableaux; Liste Des Figures; Introduction; Le projet; Les recherches; La diffusion; Le contexte archéologique; Le contenu de cet ouvrage; Première partie : le milieu naturel; Deuxième partie : l'histoire culturelle; Troisième partie : la culture matérielle; Remerciements; Ouvrages cités; Acronymes et abréviations; Chapitre 1 : Les approches méthodologiques; Arkéos inc.; Potentiel archéologique; Paramètres considérés; Analyse du paysage; Recherches antérieures; Ressources fauniques.

• Utilisation du territoire par les CrisSélection des zones; Inventaires; Sélection des sites pour les fouilles; Traitement des données; Administration régionale crie; Discussion; Ouvrages cités; PREMIÈRE PARTIE MILIEU NATUREL; Chapitre 2 : La géographie de l'Eastmain ou la géographie de la mobilité; Introduction; Le paysage actuel; Situation de l'aire d'étude; Dans la péninsule Québec-Labrador; Dans le cours de l'Eastmain; Caractérisation du paysage (physiographie, topographie); La physiographie; Topographie et géomorphologie; Organisation structurale; La structure du paysage et la mobilité

• Le paléoenvironnementLa déglaciation; L'invasion marine et l'émersion progressive des basses terres de la baie James; Le cadre de l'occupation humaine; Le cadre bioclimatique : état actuel et évolution; Contexte général; Régions écologiques; La dynamique du milieu; La dynamique de l'occupation du territoire, le climat et les feux; Les conditions climatiques de l'occupation; Les conditions écologiques de l'occupation; La faune; Bilan des ressources fauniques exploitables; Synthèse des données fauniques; Résumé du bilan des ressources fauniques; Conclusion; Ouvrages cités.

• Chapitre 3 : La plaine alluviale de la rivière Eastmain, Jamésie (Québec) : stratigraphie, sédimentologie, paléoécologieContexte et portée de l'étude; Cadre conceptuel et problématique; La richesse des archives alluviales; La paléohydrologie holocène de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord; Les relations homme-milieu : l'apport de la carpologie; La région étudiée; Contexte géomorphologique; Déglaciation, épisodes lacustres et invasion marine postglaciaire; Histoire du climat, de la végétation et des feux; Méthodes; Récolte des données et préparation des échantillons; Datations SMA.

• Analyses granulométriquesAnalyses carpologiques; Résultats et interprétation; Stratigraphie et sédimentologie des séquences étudiées; FbFq-1 (pk 345); FaFt-9 (pk 310); FaFu-6 (pk 293); Coupe N12E13; Coupe N17E13; Coupe du talus; FaFx-7 (pk 249); FaFx-6 (pk 246); FaFx-17 (pk 231); La coupe A (6N9E); La coupe B (12N10E); Résultats de l'analyse carpologique; Discussion;
• 1. La nature des sédiments et le régime hydrologique de la rivière Eastmain;
• 2. L'origine et la signification des couches organiques charbonneuses et des sols fossiles.

Au Québec, les recherches archéologiques en forêt boréale reliées à de grands projets hydroélectriques sont nombreuses depuis les années 1970. Cet ouvrage fait état des recherches archéologiques préventives menées en amont de l'aménagement hydroélectrique de l'Eastmain-1.

• Reassembling the Greater Gulf: Northwest Atlantic Environmental History and the Gulf of St. Lawrence System / Matthew McKenzie
• "Gens sauvages et estranges": Amerindians and the Early Fishery in the Sixteenth-Century Gulf of St. Lawrence / Jack Bouchard
• Newfoundland's West Coast and the Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishery, ca. 1755-83: A Case Study of War, Fish, and Empire / Rainer Baehre
• "We have done a great deal of mischief--spread the terror of his Majesty's Arms thru the whole Gulph": The British Strategy of Resource Control during the Seven Years' War in North America, 1758-59 / Daniel Soucier
• Environmental Change, War, and Neutrality in Imperial--Indigenous Relations in the Maritime Colonies, 1793-1815 / John G. Reid
• "The Best Fishing Station": The Fish Trade of Prince Edward Island and Resource Transfer in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1854-1873 / Brian Payne
• Shell Games: The Marine Commons, Economic Policy, and Oyster Culture in Prince Edward Island, 1865-1928 / Edward MacDonald
• "Alien Concerns": American Canners in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Lobster Fishery, 1870-1914 / Suzanne Morton
• Primordial Landscapes, Hardy Folk, and Doomed Aboriginals: The Gulf of St. Lawrence in the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writers / J.I. Little
• "A window looking seaward": Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery / Claire Campbell
• "An ugly, piled-up sea": Industrialization and Regional Identity in W. Albert Hickman's Gulf of St. Lawrence Fiction / Caitlin Charman
• Conclusion: Glimpses of a Greater Gulf / Claire Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne.

The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history - marine and terrestrial - of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history.
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• Introduction: Newfoundland: a place in search of security
• Rejecting Canada and embracing the Newfoundland nation, 1864-1869
• The Nation turns inwards, 1870-1901
• Prosperity, Confederation and the Dominion of Newfoundland before and after the Great War, 1902-1927
• Despair, government by commission and a slow rebuild, 1928-1941
• The national convention, social citizenship, and Newfoundland's future, 1941-1946
• Constitutional options explored: delegations to London and Ottawa, 1946-1948
• Referendum, social citizenship and Canada: Newfoundland becomes a province, 1948-1949
• Conclusion.

"'A masterful examination of Newfoundland-Canada relations from 1869-1949'--Corey Slumkowski, author of Inventing Atlantic Canada: Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry into Canadian Confederation. Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent, ignorant, and gullible. Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker demonstrate that, in fact, voters fully understood the issues at stake in both cases, and in 1948 women too became instrumental in determining the final outcome, voting for Canada, believing it provided the best opportunities for their children. 'Blake and Baker make a persuasive case, turn[ing] the conspiracy on its head and demonstrat[ing] how Newfoundlanders knew what they were doing and expressly acted in their own self-interest when they chose Canada. . . . It is hard to imagine any two other authors who would know more about the subject.' --David MacKenzie, author of Inside the Atlantic Triangle."-- Provided by publisher.

• The Irish in nineteenth-century Canada : class, culture, and conflict
• The Orange Order and social violence in mid-nineteenth century St. John / Scott W. See
• St. Patrick's Day parades in nineteenth-century Toronto : a study of immigrant adjustment and elite control / Michael Cottrell
• American Blacks in nineteenth-century Ontario : challenging the stereotypes
• The black population of Canada West on the eve of the American Civil War : a reassessment based on the manuscript census of 1861 / Michael Wayne
• 'Self-reliance is the true road to independence' : ideology and the ex-slaves in Buxton and Chatham / Howard Law
• Mary Ann Shadd and the search for equality / Jason H. Silverman
• Settling the Canadian West " the 'exotic' continentals
• A Roumanian pioneer / Anne B. Woywitka
• The Ukrainian impress on the Canadian West / James W. Darlington
• 'Women's work' : paid labour, community-building, and protest
• 'I won't be a slave!' Finnish domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 / Varpu Lindström
• Abraham's daughters : women, charity, and power in the Canadian Jewish community / Paula J. Draper and Janice B. Karlinsky.

• Men without women : 'bachelor' workers and gendered identities
• Men without women : Italian migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 / Robert F. Harney
• Bachelor workers / Anthony B. Chan
• Bachelors, boarding-houses, and blind pigs : gender construction in a multi-ethnic mining camp, 1909-1920 / Nancy M. Forestell
• Demanding rights, organizing for change : militants and radicals
• Finnish radicalism and labour activism in the Northern Ontario woods / Ian Radforth
• Sewing solidarity : the Eaton's strike of 1912 / Ruth A. Frager
• Relief strike : immigrant workers and the great depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 / Carmela Patrias
• Encountering the 'other' : society and state responses, 1900s-1930s
• A disgrace to 'Christian Canada' : Protestant foreign missionary concerns about the treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 / Ruth Compton Brouwer
• State repression of labour and the left in Canada, 1914-1920 : the impact of the First World War
• 'The line must be drawn somewhere' : Canada and the Jewish refugees, 1933-1939 / Irving Abella and Harold Troper
• Regulating minorities in 'hot' and 'cold' war contexts, 1939-1960s
• Ethnic relations in wartime : nationalism and European minorities in Alberta during the Second World War / Howard Palmer
• Making 'New Canadians' : social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families / Franca Iacovetta.

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision. Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.
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This book offers a selection of papers by Olaf U. Janzen concerning the maritime history of eighteenth-century Newfoundland, reprinted from various publications and assembled here in chronological order. It explores themes of imperial dominance expressed by both the British and French empires in the struggle for sovereignty that ensconced the two nations. The Newfoundland fishery in the wake of the Treaty of Utrecht was also source of tension between British and French fishermen due to the fishery's lucrative status. In attempt to integrate Newfoundland's maritime history into the wider context of the North Atlantic world it examines the struggles of France as their maritime trade went into decline; the dominance of the British Royal Navy on the Atlantic Ocean; the struggle of indigenous Canadians to migrate to Newfoundland; and the efforts of America during the War of Independence to target the fishery when vulnerable. It consists of an introduction, twelve chapters exploring pertinent themes, and an appendix containing reprinted oil paintings of British artist Francis Holman depicting a naval engagement of 7-8 July 1777 involving numerous vessels.

• The dry belt and changing aridity in the Palliser Triangle, 1895-2000 / Gregory P. Marchildon, Jeremy Pittman, and David J. Sauchyn
• Schools and social disintegration in the Alberta dry belt of the twenties / David C. Jones
• Institutional adaptation to drought and the special areas of Alberta, 1909-1939 / Gregory P. Marchildon
• History, public memory and the land abandonment crisis of the 1920s / Curt McManus
• Bienfait : origins and legacy of the coal miners' strike of 1931 / Stephen Endicott
• Unemployed struggles in Saskatchewan and Canada, 1930-1935 / Lorne Brown
• No help for the farm help : the farm employment plans of the 1930s in prairie Canada / Cecilia Danysk
• Soldier settlement and depression settlement in the forest fringe of Saskatchewan / John McDonald
• Homesteading in northern Alberta during the Great Depression : a life history approach / Clinton N. Westman
• The Red Cross and relief in Alberta, 1920s-1930s / Nancy M. Sheehan
• From short-term emergency to long-term crisis : public works projects in Saskataoon, 1929-1932 / Eric J. Strikwerda
• Robert Weir : forgotten farmer-minister in R.B. Bennett's depression-era cabinet / Gregory P. Marchildon and Carl Anderson
• Alberta social credit reappraised : the radical character of the early social credit movement / Alvin Finkel
• The rural prairie novel and the Great Depression / Victor Carl Friesen.

"The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes fell by 49% in Manitoba, 61% in Alberta and an astounding 72% in Saskatchewan. The result was enormous social and political upheaval that sent shockwaves through the rest of the country. In this sixth volume of the History of the Prairie West series, contributors explore the cultural, political, and economic repercussions of climate change and financial upheaval on the region and its people."-- Provided by publisher.

• Couverture; Titre de page; Droits d'auteur; Table des matières; Remerciements; Introduction; Chapitre 1 La formation d'un historien; L'historien autodidacte; Le bourgeois traditionaliste; Les usages du passé; Chapitre 2 Le récit chapaisien; Les Premières Nations; Le Régime français; Le Régime britannique; Le régime de l'Union et la Confédération; Les grands thèmes du récit; Chapitre 3 L'influence et la réception critiquede l'oeuvre chapaisienne; De chroniqueur à historien, 1890-1920; Le repoussoir des nationalistes, 1920-1946; Vers l'oubli, 1946 à aujourd'hui; Conclusion; Bibliographie; Index

• AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Première étude de l'oeuvre d'historien de Thomas Chapais, homme politique et dernier grand représentant du loyalisme canadien-français.

"Of the settlers, prospectors, trappers, mountaineers and loggers who came to British Columbia's remote Bute Inlet between the 1890s and the 1940s, few remained long. August Schnarr, however, trapped far up the Homathko and Southgate Rivers and logged the inlet shores from 1910 until the 1960s. An adventurous photographer, August strapped his Kodak camera to his suspenders and captured his mountain climbing, upriver treks and family homestead. His photo collection is a diary of fifty years of an upcoast life. In this twenty-fourth issue of Raincoast Chronicles, Judith Williams traces the Schnarrs' family story through August's photographs. Included are classic portraits of the pioneering Bute residents posed on wooden boats and floathouses and with giant fish catches and hunting trophies as well as rare 1930s pictures documenting August's daughters with their pet cougars. "They were nice pets, we could pet them and they'd purr just like a cat, and they kept pawing you, don't quit, don't quit, " said August's daughter Pansy in an interview with Maud Emery. "They didn't like anybody but us three; they didn't like my dad at all. They were just like cats to us, we didn't think of them as anything special, nothing but a bunch of work." Richly illustrated, impeccably researched and featuring diaries, interviews and oral history, Raincoast Chronicles 24 illuminates the experience of homesteading on the remote BC coast."-- Provided by publisher.

• F.H.U. of the Canadian forum / by M. Prang
• Public policy and private pressures / by G. Spry
• Lord Durham and the assimilation of French Canada / by W. Ormsby
• The poetry of modern Quebec / by F. Cogswell
• Memories of Louis St. Laurent, 1946-9 / by E. Reid
• Le Canada et la France / par N. Kattan
• In defence of Canadian culture / by N. Compton
• Canada and the Commonwealth / by A. Smith
• Bibliography of the writings of Frank H. Underhill.

• 1. Family Roots and Educational Experience
• 2. The Tank Battalion
• 3. The Khaki University
• 4. London Days
• 5. Scholar and Commentator
• 6. The Old Province of Quebec
• 7. Constitutional Issues Old and New
• 8. The Flowering of Canadian History
• 9. Last Years at Alberta
• 10. First Years at Minnesota
• 11. Internationalist
• 12. Committed Scholar and Dedicated Teacher. App.
• 1. 'On the Study of History'
• App.
• 2. A.L. Burt: A Bibliography
• App.
• 3. A.L. Burt's PhD Students.