FR :

L'objet de cette étude concerne la plus répandue des légendes de camp de l'Ontario, l'histoire d'Anson Minor. L'auteur en présente un certain nombre de versions encore inédites et elle questionne l'historicité de cette légende, et, surtout, décrit le pattern de ces légendes en Amérique du Nord.

EN :

The study of folktales is inseparable from the history of folklore studies. An incessant to-and-fro between the raw material - collected oral tales - and critical concerns - the different methodological approaches - demands attention to enrich and enhance our understanding. A close examination of the methodological approaches of the last hundred years reveals the complementarites of the different methods, their convergences in spite of the external oppositions strongly proclaimed by the proponents of the historico-geographic school, functionalism, structuralism. This methodological inquiry highlights the necessity to choose not one method, but rather to confront one with the others in a dialogue on the same material because each school represents a logical phase in the analysis of a story. Finally, following upon a discussion - in Structural Models in Folklore by Elli Köngas-Maranda and Pierre Maranda - the author formulates new models which, simple and adaptable, take into account ail the approaches simultaneously and permit observation of the principle of transformation at work in the narrative.

EN :

Since time immemorial man has used words to fashion discourse — first oral then written — but only after having, up to a certain point, outlined in images the deeds, events, things or ideas to communicate. Although across the centuries the image has known many uses, it still remains for us an astonishing manifestation of communication through which it is important to grasp the implications of the discourse. The study of images permits the elaboration of numerous hypotheses to explicate material or spiritual culture. One of these hypotheses proposes the identification and then the explication, through iconography, of diverse phenomena of man's adaptation to daily life in the winter. In other words, it suggests that iconography projects an ethnographie discourse; that is to say, portrays acts and characteristics of the Euroquébécoise culture.

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L'Auteur relate brièvement la petite histoire des festivals organisés par la compagnie des chemins de fer du Canadian Pacifique à la fin des années vingt et trente, et elle livre certains aperçus sur les motivations et les Idéologies qui animaient alors leurs organisateurs, en particulier John Murray Gibbon.

EN :

Toponymics, like ethnology, is a fieldwork science. But when the names that are the subject of study are buried as long in time and legend as that of Mount Rolland in the Gaspé (for which one of the early names was Roland's Table), the study also involves history. For the mountain's former name, which has puzzled placename scholars, the author here proposes an explanation which reconciles legend with history.