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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.

Guimarães Rosa describes as an “irrational autobiography” his novel Grande Sertão : Veredas (1956) – the hero, Riobaldo, is a bard/poet who submits to a Faustian pact to take over Hermogen (the arbitrary sign) and finally receive Otacilia (the literary prize) ; however, this ends at the cost of Diadorim's loss (Deodoron, God's gift : the soul). At the same time, in a poetic register close to holographic oraliture, Guimarães Rosa claims to have written his masterpiece in a state of possession. And while he adjourned, by admitted and claimed superstition, his entry into the Brazilian Academy of Letters for four years, he mysteriously died three days after the ceremony. Enigma or staging ? By means of factual clues carefully planted on the interpretative paths, and following a scenario completely new in the universal history of literature, the novelist composes in minute details an autobiography irreducible to a version that would be permanently framed by graphic printing: this autobiography can only be conceived in the poetic space of oraliture (in its collective and gregarious social manifestations, beyond the universe of the printed letter). In order to transform his own existence into a living legend and to avoid the hazardous incompleteness of the human condition (as well as the reductive limitations that mark the advent of the written text), Rosa narrates the story of a life (his own), under the pretext of a “death foretold”, through a textuality that is exclusively accomplished in the imagination of her readers.

This article looks at the beginnings of daylight saving time in Trois-Rivières. After tracing daylight saving time's roots to England and its initial use in Canada during the First World War, the article centres on Trois-Rivières's two daylight saving time referenda (1922 and 1937). In the first, a large majority defeated the measure and in the second, it received majority support, ending most public debate on the question. As a local study of an international phenomenon, the article explores the constitutional, cultural, class and gender issues and ideologies that framed these debates about time standardardization. It argues that the beginnings of daylight saving time in Trois-Rivières were framed by Canadian federalism, employers' power, the Catholic Church's maternalism, the rise of mass culture and, to a lesser extent, beliefs that the measure was an attack on God's authority.

Manitou College, one of the first Canadian post-secondary institutions for indigenous students, was created in 1973 on the abandoned site of the missile base located in La Macaza, Quebec. Despite its very short existence, Manitou College had a considerable impact on the definition of a collective indigenous identity and on the construction of First Nations leadership in Canada and Quebec. Using primary and secondary sources as well as new testimonies from key actors, this article aims to contextualize the rise and fall of Manitou College.

This article focuses on violence in language as a modality for negotiating with the real in Étienne Lepage's play Rouge gueule (2009). Situating our approach at the crossroads of literary and theatre studies subsequent to the work of Marion Chénetier-Alev on orality in theatre (2010), we address the violence done to both the theatrical device and reader-viewers within the theatrical space, which is made possible by the language's cruelty. Our reflexion also expands to investigate British in-yer-face theatre (of which Sarah Kane is emblematic) and its impacts on contemporary Quebec theatre, while emphasizing the knowledge of Quebec dramaturgy that is evident in the play. In this sense, the language invented by Lepage forms a counterpoint to a certain contemporary cynicism and imposes a language that is rich and conscious of its filiations and history.

Our collaborators, Messrs. Yergeau and Saint-Denis, present a concise summary of federal and provincial powers with respect to environmental protection rights, the progress made with respect to the legislative corpus in this area as well as the stalemates encountered where court decisions are concerned. The authors also provide an historical look back at the events which first made the society aware of the need for environmental protection and the protests which led to environmental rights as we know them today. What is implied by the term environment, how can we damage it and how is it protected by Quebec and Canadian laws – these are the questions considered by the authors, both associated with the Montreal law firm Lavery, O'Brien.

The rural world is characterized by its great diversity. The rural localities of Atlantic Canada are no exception to this observation, particularly in demographic terms, as they evolve in one direction or the other depending on various factors, both cyclical/economic and structural. The objective of this article is to illustrate the main evolutionary trajectories of the demography of rural areas in Atlantic Canada at various geographic scales between 1981 and 2021. The analysis is carried out by considering the demographic size strata of the localities as well as their rate of evolution over this period. It reveals, in the space of 40 years, a general depopulation of the rural population, mainly because of the decline observed in many localities of Newfoundland and Labrador and, to a lesser extent, in the three Maritime provinces. However, the 2016-2021 period is marked by a demographic break characterized by a rise in the rural population, probably due to the pandemic, with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Keywords: Dépeuplement, Depopulation rurality, ruralité, Atlantic Canada, Canada atlantique, demography, démographie

Keywords: collaboration école-famille-communauté, organisme communautaire et école, camp éducatif, élèves récemment immigré·e·s, apprentissage du français, intégration socioculturelle