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- Title
Le cas particulier de la famille Mignault: prospection d'une histoire transnationale.
- Authors
Lacroix, Patrick
- Abstract
On 3 September 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the American War of Independence. The Thirteen Colonies secured freedom from British rule while the old Province of Quebec and Nova Scotia retained their colonial status. But all was not settled. The fate of Canadians who had supported the revolutionary cause remained unclear. The Loyalists had to rebuild north of the new international border. That boundary line was itself contested: the cultural identities and political allegiances of those living along Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River proved fluid. The Mignault family exemplified such identities that do not meet our contemporary national definitions. In particular, both Basile, the revolutionary patriarch, and his son Pierre, a Catholic pastor in Chambly, led lives profoundly marked by the looming presence of the American giant. The varied exchanges they witnessed in this borderland region at present demand that scholars reconsider national historical narratives.
- Subjects
RICHELIEU River (N.Y. &; Vt.-Quebec); TRANSNATIONALISM; GREAT Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 September 3; COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; HISTORY
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2018, Vol 65, p37
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2018.4