Quebec History Link

L'Encyclopédie de l'histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

''This site first began in 1997. Its first purpose was, and continues to be, to provide material of varied nature for the students registered in my class of HIS 951 - Quebec History, at Marianopolis College in Montreal. The course addresses Quebec history after the fall of New France; thus, it begins with the period of 1760-1763. Although a considerable amount of material, information, and tools for Quebec history exists in French, this is not always the case in English. From the beginning, it was my purpose to put into the hands of the students sufficient data so that they would gain as great an understanding of Quebec history, and of the Quebec people, as possible. When the site began, it came as a great surprise to me that there was a significant public outside of Marianopolis for the material posted here. There was evidently a need for serious academic material in English and the site seems to have fulfilled part of that need. In any case, I was frankly horrified at the low quality, and the general nature, of what was available about Quebec on the Internet. Thus, in posting material at the site, I keep in mind both the needs of my students and of the general public''


"L Encyclopédie de l histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia"Indians of Canada and Quebec/Les Indiens du Canada et du Québec:

The Reformed Church of Québec History

''A certain popular conviction would have it that French is synonymous with Roman Catholicism and that Protestantism is "the religion" of non-French-speaking races or nations. In reality, the Protestant Reform ("pro" meaning "for", "testatus" meaning "that which is attested to or proven": in favour of the truth) was initiated by a renowned Frenchman, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, professor of theology of the University of Sorbonne. His commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, written in l512, was God's instrument in the life of the famous German Reformer Martin Luther, and of many French Reformers, amongst whom were William Farel and John Calvin.''
For a lot more on this : Reformed Church of Quebec - Our History

Quebec in the Wikipedia

Quebec (le Québec in French) is the largest province in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,560,592 (Statistics Canada, October 2004). Quebec's primary language is French, making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America. The capital is Quebec City and the largest city is Montréal. The province's name is pronounced in English as either "kwuh-BECK" or "kuh-BECK", IPA: /kw??b?k/ or /k??b?k/; or in French as "keh-BECK", IPA: /ke??b?k/. A resident of Quebec is called a Quebecer (also spelled Quebecker), or in French, un(e) Québécois(e).
Link :Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arctic attraction

From a wildly popular art exhibition to Inuktitut lessons, Inuit culture is all the rage in France.

''In Paris's grand old Musée de l'Homme, near the Eiffel Tower, the flow of fascinated visitors these days is steady. The museum's spotlight exhibition, Inuit: quand la parole prend forme (Inuit: When Words Take Shape), on display through March 27, offers a glimpse into a world almost unimaginably distant from the French capital: Canada's frozen Arctic.''
Link : Musée d'art Inuit | Art | Arctic attraction

Where have all the Neanderthals gone?

Held at New York University, "Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives" asked researchers to tackle the place of Neanderthals -- the heavy-browed and muscular early humans often stereotyped as "cavemen" -- in human history.
Neanderthals lived mostly in Europe and the Middle East from at least 28,000 to 200,000 years ago, before disappearing mysteriously from the fossil record just as modern-looking humans moved into those regions.
Whether people today owe any ancestry to these earlier folks has roiled paleoanthropology for decades.
The debate is central to disagreement over the "Out of Africa" model for human development. Largely based on fossils and modern genes, that model suggests that modern-looking people, "Homo sapiens," appeared in east Africa as early as 150,000 years ago and moved outward before 80,000 years ago.
A less popular theory, the "multi-regional" model, holds that humanity springs from a combination of early modern people from Africa and older human species, such as Neanderthals.
For two days at the meeting, the scholars looked at new ways of analyzing old bones, discussing CAT scans of Neanderthal fossil skulls, mechanical differences between humans and genetic data.
Among the findings:
? Researchers from the Genome Quebec Innovation Center conclude Neanderthals could have contributed 0.1 percent of their genes to modern humans, and possibly none.

? Neanderthals were "very good" homebody hunters, sticking close to one region to find bison, deer and other prey. Early modern humans ranged far and wide on their hunts, in contrast, reported University of New Mexico researchers.
Source : Where have all the Neanderthals gone?

Small Town and human History

''Every historic structure within the streetscape relates to the other. When you remove one it diminishes the significance and the quality embodied in the entire unified experience.''

Full history and name-dropping of a Mass. Town :
Hingham's window into human history

The admiral's reliquary

An Extraordinary Historical Detective Story Shedding New Light on the Life of Britain's Greatest Naval Hero
"But these strategically important details have been overshadowed by the glamour and dash of Nelson himself. Something of a secular cult rapidly developed around the man and his legend. The Victory remains to this day on the books of the Royal Navy, preserved in dry dock at Portsmouth, a monument to greatness and audacity that mocks the present. The hero retains his votaries among naval persons, history buffs and English patriots: it is already impossible, even at this early date, to find accommodation anywhere in the vicinity of Portsmouth for the celebrations later this year of the 200th anniversary of Nelson's great victory of 1805."
Full story : The admiral's reliquary