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This article aims at understanding the evolution of Denis-Benjamin Viger's historical consciousness through the analysis of two of his main pre-Rebellion publications. The article will show that, from 1809 to 1831, Viger, a Lower Canada politician and patriot, evolved greatly as an intellectual and as a thinker of history. In 1809, he was convinced that history was repeating itself, in keeping with the humanist education he received from the Collège de Montréal. In 1831, he adopted a different historical discourse, which was more concerned with the specificities of the various historical periods and less convinced of the exemplary value of the past to assess the present.
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This article analyzes the decline of the intellectual network of independentist journals in the late 1960s when the Parti Québécois appropriated most of the ideas as well as the people who fed the debates in the various publications during the Quiet Revolution. Firstly, the article maps the main intellectual nodes of the late 1960s, introducing the leaders, the ideologies and the dissemination potential of these journals. Secondly, it analyzes the founding of the Parti Québécois and the initial impact of René Lévesque's centrist coalition on the independentist intellectual network. Thirdly, it addresses the issue of ideological transfers and political connections between the members of this network and the Parti Québécois at the turn of the 1970s.
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This article addresses the way mass suburbanization was marketed to Montrealers in the 1950s and 1960s. By analyzing advertisements for newly-built single-family homes in Anglophone and Francophone newspapers, I seek to better understand the evolution of marketing strategies and the structuring of their underlying suburban ideal. The analysis allows me not only to shed light on what constitutes the ideal-typical publicity for this period, but also to observe how the discourses and strategies were complexified over the years and converged between both linguistic groups, at least in their content.
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We pose the question, “Where is New France ?” as a device for discussing the problematic relationship between sovereignty and territory from the 16th to the 18th century. The article notes that present-day historians tend to think of New France as a bounded territory, even though they give it quite different boundaries. Examining texts and maps from the Early Modern period, we find that New France was rarely assigned borders. Instead, it tended to serve as a vaguely delineated expression of limitless imperial ambitions. In this respect, New France was an extreme example of a widespread tendency in this period before sovereignty came to be inscribed in precise territorial terms.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century in Montreal, the risingbourgeoisieis getting more and more interested in the urban dailymisery. With the support of the clerical elite, it founded severalinstitutions for certain type of clients, such as children, victims ofindustrialization and urbanization. It is in this context that OlivierBerthelet, a French-Canadian middle-class man, founded the Hospice St.Joseph of Montreal. In 1854, this charitable institution passes to thehands of the Grey Nuns who mainly cater to orphans. The Hospice is notintended to discipline the poor families, but rather to adapt to theireducational and spiritual materials, family needs. In the context ofpatriarchal society, the Sisters will arrive to administer theirinstitution for over half a century, constantly hitting problems ofunderfunding and understaffing. These recurrent problems will leadgradually to transform the charitable purpose of the institution untilit closed in 1911 to become Domestic School St. Joseph. In thisregard, this interesting case study illustrates the limitations ofCatholic support network set up in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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AbstractReynald Rivard was a pioneer in special education in Quebec. Three conclusions can be drawn from his professional biography. Without questioning the contribution made by the network developed around Boscoville to the emergence of special education, there was a broader reflection on the field and the training of professionals in the mid-20th century, one which drew on diverse, and sometimes conflicting, theoretical and practical currents. Furthermore, the article describes the essential elements of the marginalization of religious orders after 1950 : their inability to support their professional training with recognized diplomas, as well as the refusal of church authorities and government to help them access the training necessary to gain professional accreditation. Finally, looking beyond the relationship between Church and State, an examination of the power relationships within each of these institutions helps to reveal the fundamental complexity of the process which led to the disappearance of orphanages.
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This article explores the different ways in which territory has historically been perceived, conceived and practiced through the experience and growth of mobility. Since the 1920s, automobility has been seen as a major factor by the various players of the tourism industry and in the creation of touristic regions. Building on an iconographic and discursive analysis of tourist guides and travel accounts, this article compares the experience of two provinces, Quebec and Ontario, and shows how two territories with similar bio-geo-physical characteristics developed different tourist representations based on cultural factors.
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By means of an approach grounded in the history of political culture, the article analyzes the role and importance of media and public images of nuclear power in Quebec over a period of nearly forty years. The paper studies the discourse of Quebec's political leaders, the directors of Hydro-Quebec and various other social actors who spoke in public either in support of or in opposition to the production of electricity by nuclear fission. In the process, the article sheds light on the political conflicts over nuclear power and the ensuing struggles over its symbolic representations. It also highlights the consequences of these debates for the future of the energy sector.
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This paper studies the fate of the French nobility in Canada after the Cession of 1763 and the advent of the British Regime. It reconstructs and explains the choices made by the families, i.e. to stay or to leave, to join the new regime or to stay on the fringe of the new order established during the 1770s and the 1780s. It shows that the families which remained in Canada experienced the ordinary fate of all local elites when challenged by a new colonial domination : some successfully courted the British authorities to preserve their social and political domination while others slowly slid down the social ladder into obscurity.
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This article focuses on the presence of feminine and feminist themes in Le Devoir between 1965 and 1975 with the aim of demonstrating that the feminine page of this newspaper allowed the transposition of women's concerns into the public space. This period is targeted in order to analyze at the same time the impact of the abolition of the woman's page, which takes place in February 1971, on the organization of the newspaper, especially through the study of the development of women's themes in the newspaper. It also posits that the significant decline of feminist articles following the abolition of the woman's page is the result of a media culture built and reproduced as a masculine culture.