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Introduction: The Peopling of French Canada PART 1: 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 PART 2: 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 Notes Index
A superbly detailed study that offers the most complete, sweeping view of the peopling of French Canada now available and constitutes a model for careful yet imaginative investigations of emigration to all New World societies. -- Jon Butler, Yale University Choquette's book fits squarely into a growing body of writing on geographical mobility in early modern history, especially on the peopling process of North America, and contributes significantly to that major field. The socioeconomic, regional, age, and gender analyses are significant, and establish new patterns. The regional mapping and distance analysis are also impressive. The analysis throughout is careful and elaborate, and the subject important...A notable monograph. -- Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Leslie P. Choquette is Associate Professor of History, Assumption College.
A solid and original migration study.
*American Historical Review*
The historiography of French Canada places the greatest emphasis on
those who settled definitively in the colony, especially the 8527
or so who are the ancestors of over six million French-Canadians
today. Leslie Choquette redresses the balance in this useful study
of the migrants as a while, revealing their origins in the mobile,
urban trading centres of the French Atlantic ports… By placing the
peopling of French North America in a broader metropolitan context,
this study is a welcome addition to the historiography.
*English Historical Studies [UK]*
Choquette’s research is impressive; she mined every available
source on both sides of the Atlantic. Canadian sources include
ecclesiastical records such as marriage contracts, lists of
patients at the Hotel-Dieu of Québec, ‘testimonials of freedom at
marriage’, intended to avoid bigamy, for example, among soldiers
fighting in the Seven Years War, censuses and criminal records and
official correspondence. She discusses the sources themselves (and
certain problems in using them) with admirable precision… The goal
of the study is ‘to situate emigration to Canada within the broad
context of social, economic, cultural, and political life under the
Ancien Régime’. This she accomplishes well.
*French History [UK]*
Choquette’s book fits squarely into a growing body of writing on
geographical mobility in early modern history, especially on the
peopling process of North America, and contributes significantly to
that major field. The socioeconomic, regional, age, and gender
analyses are significant, and establish new patterns. The regional
mapping and distance analysis are also impressive. The analysis
throughout is careful and elaborate, and the subject important… A
notable monograph.
*Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University*
A superbly detailed study that offers the most complete, sweeping
view of the peopling of French Canada now available and constitutes
a model for careful yet imaginative investigations of emigration to
all New World societies.
*Jon Butler, Yale University*
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