Alanna Loucks Over the last few months, I started writing a draft of the final chapter of my dissertation. This chapter reconstructs the household and larger web of relationships created by Mère d’Youville and the Grey Nuns of Montréal. This chapter fits into my larger project, which traces the familial and economic networks created by… Continue Reading
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Joe Borsato When examining Anglo-Indigenous relations and colonization in the early seventeenth century Americas, scholars rarely treat colonial experiences in North America and South America together. Yet, a hemispheric framework brings fresh insight into the history of colonial expansion.[1] In northern South America, a region commonly referred to as Guiana, or Güiri noko (“the land… Continue Reading
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Nicolas Landry English Abstract: This short survey aims at putting forward the participation of Acadians in the New Brunswick militia during the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. It demonstrates Acadians’ ambivalence to contribute to the war effort with the English forces. Nevertheless, some Acadians were able to benefit from military promotions by… Continue Reading
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Nicolas Landry English Abstract: Although traditional Acadian historiography put emphasis on the contribution of missionaries to help Acadians establish themselves around the Gulf of St. Lawrence after the Expulsion (1755-1763), most recent publications demonstrate that Acadians tended to resist some high expectations from the Church hierarchy and its representatives, the missionaries. This short text is… Continue Reading
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dann J. Broyld Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery by dann j. Broyld examines Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. The story that is best known of Rochester and St. Catharines before the Civil… Continue Reading
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Nathan Ince On July 14, 1832, Jacob Sahkeconabe was shot and killed by Joseph Graverod. Both individuals involved in this tragedy were young, variously described as boys, youths, or young men, but otherwise they came from different backgrounds.[1] Sahkeconabe belonged to the Anishinaabe community of Mnjikaning, more often known to outsiders as Yellowhead’s village. For… Continue Reading
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Alan Taylor The editors invited me to respond to the review by Todd Webb of my book American Republics, which is the third in a series examining the emergence of the United States in a continental context. Webb’s review is so generous that I have no hairs to split with him. He aptly notes the… Continue Reading
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Review of Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2021) 502 pp. $35.00. Elizabeth Mancke and Adam Nadeau[1] In the conventional metanarrative of modernity, written constitutions symbolize progressive trends, political events that were considered “benevolent and normally acted as… Continue Reading
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Nathan Ince At 10 PM on the evening of July 11, 1835, a group of Mohawk launched a raft onto the waters of the Bay of Quinte. They had good reason to begin their journey under cover of dusk. The two hundred logs that made up their raft had been illegally cut down the previous… Continue Reading
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Mark R. Anderson The king’s face had been “smeared with tar, with a necklace of potatoes around the neck from which was suspended a wooden Cross with this inscription— VOILÁ LE PAPE DU CANADA ET LE SOT ANGLOIS [This is the Pope of Canada and the Fool of England].” On the morning of May 1,… Continue Reading