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1 online resource (viii, 397 pages). |
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text file |
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Harvard historical studies ; 123
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Harvard historical studies ; v. 123.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-388) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Peopling of French Canada -- pt. I. Modernity. 1. Regional Origins: Peasants or Frenchmen? 2. A Geography of Modernity: The Northwest. 3. A Geography of Modernity: Non-Northwesterners and Women. 4. An Urban Society: Class Structure and Occupational Distribution. 5. Religious Diversity: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics. 6. The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion -- pt. II. Tradition. 7. Traditional Patterns of Mobility. 8. A Traditional Movement: Northwestern Emigration to Canada. 9. A Traditional Movement: Emigration Outside the Northwest. 10. The Canadian System of Recruitment -- Conclusion: Frenchmen into Peasants. |
| Summary |
Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here. |
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In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century. |
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| Local Note |
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| Subject |
New France -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
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France. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Immigrants -- New France -- History.
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Immigrants. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Choquette, Leslie. Frenchmen into peasants. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (DLC) 96040089 (OCoLC)36051186 |
| ISBN |
9780674029545 (electronic book) |
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0674029542 (electronic book) |
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0674323157 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674323155 (alkaline paper) |
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