Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec |
|
| Author:
| Coates, Colin M. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-85828-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press
|
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
|
French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted similar appropriations with far less durable results and the area remained a heartland of French-Canadian life, with a sense of cohesive community. This community spirit, rooted in agrarian landscape, was channelled into the developing sense of colonial nationalism of the 1820s and 1830s.
French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted similar appropriations with far less durable results and the area remained a heartland of French-Canadian life, with a sense of cohesive community. This community spirit, rooted in agrarian landscape, was channelled into the developing sense of colonial nationalism of the 1820s and 1830s.