Notable surveys of early Canadian history include those of Marcel Trudel, who in his multi-volume Histoire de la Nouvelle-France and other works displays a first-name knowledge of everyone who lived in seventeenth-century New France. Among English-language surveys. The French in North America by William Eccles (most recent edition: 1998), La Nouvetle France by Peter Moogk (2000), and The People of New France by Allan Greer (1997) are useful.
Much can be gleaned from the first five volumes of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, from The Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1 (1987), and from such journals as Canadian Historical Review, Revue d’histoire de I’Amerique frangaise, Histoire sociale/Social History and William and Mary Quarterly. A growing number of websites, including Www. canadiana. org and Www. civilization. ca, Offer texts and references about early Canada.
Notable eyewitness accounts of early Canada include The Jesuit Relations, Champlain’s Works, the Voyages of Jacques Cartier and of Pierre Radisson, and the letters of Marie de Tlncarnation, published as Word from New France, edited by Joyce Marshall (1967).
Literature on colonist-Native relations includes Bruce Trigger, The Children of Aatientsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (1987); Richard White, The Middle Ground {1991); Daniel Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse {1992); and John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (1994).
Studies of the social history of New France include Habitants and Merchants of Montreal by Louise Dechene (1994); Peasant, Lord, Merchanthy Mleaa Greer (1985); La Noblesse de Nouvelle-Francehy Lorraine Gadoury (1992), Religion and Life in Louisbourg hy A. J. B. Johnson (1984), Les communautes religieuses de Montreal by Micheline d’Allaire (1995); Acadia of the Maritimes, edited by Jean Daigle (1995); The New People: Being and Becoming MMs, edited by Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer Brown (1985); and the demography project of Universite de Montreal (Www. genealogy. umontreaI. ca).
On the war of the conquest, see Crucible of War hy Fred Anderson (2000); Quebec 1759 by C. P. Stacey (1984); and Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume III (1974).
Canada is well provided with historic sites and museums of early history, including Vieux-Quebec, Vieux Montreal, the Forges de Saint-Maurice (near Trois-Rivieres), and Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park (websites include Www. virtualmuseum. ca and Www. parcscanada. ca/nhs). Readable glimpses of life in New France can be found in Christopher Moore’s non-fiction Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth Century Garrison Town (2000) and in Brian Moore’s novel Blackrobe (1985), which inspired a notable feature film of the same name.
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