Merchant and Plebeian Commercial Knowledge in Montreal and Quebec, 1760-1820

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Title
Merchant and Plebeian Commercial Knowledge in Montreal and Quebec, 1760-1820
Abstract
Conventional cultural constructions of French Canadians hold that they were dressed in homespun clothing. Analyzing advertisements from Quebec's three leading newspapers, as well as a vast number of depositions from the rich criminal court records of this colony, the author argues that French Canadians were steadily incorporated into British trading and consumption networks. This was not simply an urban phenomenon, she maintains. By 1800 a large proportion of rural inhabitants actively consumed imported manufactured goods. In turn, the author claims, French Quebec's increasing desire to acquire British ready-made clothing became part of a broader assimilative process at work in the colony following the British Conquest.
Publication
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal
Volume
Vol. 13
Issue
no. 4
Pages
856-880
Date
Fall 2015
Language
en
Citation
Christie, Nancy. “Merchant and Plebeian Commercial Knowledge in Montreal and Quebec, 1760-1820.” Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 856–880.
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