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Considering all the “regions to the west and north of Montreal ”, the notion of “folklore des Pays d'en haut ” could, by itself, be the subject of an entire conference. Our purpose, more modest, is limited to the song. From the opening of these territories until the end of the nineteenth century, chroniclers attest the striking presence of the song of oral tradition, even though the complete transcriptions are sparse. The capture of oral literature from living witnesses is a very recent invention. Inaugurated by Marius Barbeau in 1914, it touched the Ottawa region then northern Ontario in the mid-20th century and hardly overflowed this province until the 1970s. This presentation outlines the present state of known oral documentation on these areas west of the Ottawa river, in the expectation a more detailed study.
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The vast collection that makes up the Prize Papers preserved in London contains archives seized on French ships captured by British privateers in the course of Franco-British conflicts during the xviith and xviiith centuries. The collection includes a considerable number of private papers and correspondence belonging to crew members and passengers bound for the Mediterranean or the Atlantic colonies. These papers include song notebooks, as well as printed or manuscript chapbooks that included songs collected eventually by fieldworkers studying European or North American folk traditions. In some cases, they are the earliest available examples of song texts. The collection thus provides an opportunity to study the circulation of oral traditions between France and the colonies using sources that are not included in the Laforte and Coirault song indexes.
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