Along a river : the first French-Canadian women /

French-Canadian explorers, traders and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women, immigrant brides,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Noel, Janet
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Women > Saint Lawrence River Valley > History. Women > Saint Lawrence River Valley > Social conditions. Women > Saint Lawrence River Valley > Economic conditions. Human ecology > Saint Lawrence River Valley > History. Saint Lawrence River Valley > Colonization. Saint Lawrence River Valley > Social conditions. Saint Lawrence River Valley > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

Mapping transatlantic women's history. Transatlantic Trends 1600-1800
Along a river. River of Promise ; Women and the St. Lawrence Fur Trade ; Water, Woods, Earth: Making a Living
Transatlantic codes. Comparing Laws of Property ; Noble Codes, Colonial Translations ; Decoding the Eighteenth Century Convent
River of memory. Continuities in British Quebec.