Title Frenchmen into peasants : modernity and tradition in the peopling of French Canada / Leslie Choquette

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) Series Harvard historical studies ; 123 Harvard historical studies ; v. 123. Contents Introduction: The Peopling of French Canada -- pt. I. Modernity. 1. Regional Origins: Peasants or Frenchmen? 2. A Geography of Modernity: The Northwest. 3. A Geography of Modernity: Non-Northwesterners and Women. 4. An Urban Society: Class Structure and Occupational Distribution. 5. Religious Diversity: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics. 6. The Age of Adventure in an Age of Expansion -- pt. II. Tradition. 7. Traditional Patterns of Mobility. 8. A Traditional Movement: Northwestern Emigration to Canada. 9. A Traditional Movement: Emigration Outside the Northwest. 10. The Canadian System of Recruitment -- Conclusion: Frenchmen into Peasants Summary Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century Analysis emigratie emigration immigratie immigration sociale klassen social classes boeren farmers sociaal milieu social environment sociale geografie social geography cultuur culture geografie geography geschiedenis history frankrijk france canada sociografie sociography sociale situatie social situation International Migration Internationale migratie Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-388) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Immigrants -- New France -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY -- General. Emigration and immigration Immigrants Vernieuwing. Traditie. Bevolking. Fransen. Migratie (demografie) 15.85 history of America. Immigrants -- New France -- History. SUBJECT New France -- Emigration and immigration -- History France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019310 France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301 Subject Canada France North America -- New France New France -- Emigration and immigration -- History. France -- Emigration and immigration. Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 96040089 ISBN 9780674029545 0674029542

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