Description |
1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) |
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Harvard historical studies ; 123 |
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Harvard historical studies ; v. 123.
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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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emigratie |
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emigration |
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immigratie |
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immigration |
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sociale klassen |
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social classes |
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boeren |
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farmers |
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sociaal milieu |
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social environment |
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sociale geografie |
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social geography |
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cultuur |
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culture |
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geografie |
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geography |
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geschiedenis |
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history |
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frankrijk |
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france |
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canada |
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sociografie |
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sociography |
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sociale situatie |
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social situation |
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International Migration |
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Internationale migratie |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-388) and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Immigrants -- New France -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants
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Vernieuwing.
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Traditie.
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Bevolking.
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Fransen.
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Migratie (demografie)
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15.85 history of America.
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Immigrants -- New France -- History.
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SUBJECT |
New France -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century
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France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century
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Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019310
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France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301
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Canada
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France
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North America -- New France
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New France -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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France -- Emigration and immigration.
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Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
96040089 |
ISBN |
9780674029545 |
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0674029542 |
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