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In geographical works, Maillardville (a neighbourhood in Coquitlam) quite often appears as the final settlement of a Canadian Far-West. This community, built essentially around a sawmill, took shape in the early 20th century with the arrival of workers who came primarily from Quebec, then, later, from the Prairies. For several decades, a logic of in situ urbanization reinforced the community and its specificity. However, growth and expansion from Vancouver—in addition to the need to find work in other fields and the proliferation of mixed marriages—contributed to the deconstruction of a fragile community. In 1979, Paul Villeneuve was already insisting on the importance of assimilation. The situation today is somewhat paradoxical, as French-speakers are now in the minority in the neighbourhood, and indeed are scattered over several different municipalities (where they are also very much in the minority). Moreover, the Maillardville school was relocated to a neighbouring municipality. And yet, “the spirit of the community remains,“ according to Lionel Daneault, interviewed by Florence Debeugny in 2009.
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AbstractExamining the environmental history of the forest with reference to collective representations of it is certainly somewhat unusual. Yet this is the approach we propose in this article on territoriality. Representations are the images, perceptions, even the ideas that develop in people's minds at different times in history. In the context of the present article, they are considered through a comparison of two collective imaginations: the first being that of Aboriginal peoples, the other, that of non-Aboriginal colonial society. We also discuss the question of changes to the landscape, given that the relationship to the environment in different societies conditions their different views on territoriality. Our article begins by stressing the initial Aboriginal concept of territoriality, then goes on to explore the context under which colonial society integrates the image of territory and transforms the environment in its own representation of the forest.
Keywords: Forêt, représentations collectives, territorialité, imaginaires sociaux, autochtones, allochtones, Forest, collective representations, territoriality, collective imaginations, Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal, Bosque, representaciones colectivas, territorialidad, imaginarios sociales, autóctonos, colonos
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