Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections

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Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections
Abstract
The publisher describes this book as follows: "The Eastern Townships of Quebec are celebrated in popular discourse as a charming and remote nature playground for busy Montrealers, an appendage to stately Quebec City, and a northern abutment to the Northeast Kingdom of the United States. A closer look reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections. "Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World examines the region's direct links to larger prevailing international forces and identities. Here, the Eastern Townships take centre stage as the reader encounters the vibrancy of a place marked not by its insularity but by its long history: a central meeting ground shaped by its many engagements with the world. The book provides new perspectives on compelling and significant topics in Townships history and culture, including Indigenous land use, the mobility of peoples to and from the region, linguistic diversity, economic production, education, sport, religion, and culture in myriad forms. These studies recast the Eastern Townships as a centre, a borderland, a lieu de passage between nations, communities, and peoples."
Place
Montreal and Kingston
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date
2025
# of Pages
440p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-2280-2358-6
Citation
Gosselin, Cheryl, Andrew C. Holman, and Christopher Kirkey, eds. Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World: A Region and Its Global Connections. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.
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