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Mémoires de familles seigneuriales anglophones du Québec : de l’altérité à la bonne entente?
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Mémoires de familles seigneuriales anglophones du Québec : de l’altérité à la bonne entente?
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| Abstract |
The author notes that after the fall of New France in 1760, a few individuals within Quebec’s English-speaking minority became interested in seigneurial property and would own nearly 50 percent of the seigneuries at the time of the abolition of the seigneurial system in 1854. He maintains that seigneurial landowners of Anglo-Protestant decent therefore constituted a “quasi-majority” within the group of Franco-Catholic seigneurs, but they nonetheless remained part of the English linguistic and cultural minority in the province. However, the author points out, the Campbell’s, Cuthbert’s, Christie’s, Fraser’s, Nairne’s, Hale’s, and Harwood’s were important figures of socioeconomic, linguistic and religious “otherness” within their communities. The author contends that the oral history research conducted among descendants of seigneurial families in Quebec, many of whom were native English-speakers, has brought to light memories that idealize the seigneur/tenant relationship, which differs greatly from the conflicts recorded in the archives. He argues that these memories also revealed shared elite values marked by the bilingualism and biculturalism of these families, values that have been passed on to their descendants and remain to this day.
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Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society
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No. 21
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1-18
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2023
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fr
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Grenier, Benoît. “Mémoires de familles seigneuriales anglophones du Québec : de l’altérité à la bonne entente?” Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society No. 21 (2023): 1–18. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/minling/2023-n21-minling07803/1097637ar.pdf.
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