Along a river : the first French-Canadian women

Summary: "Along a River builds the case that inside the cabins that stretched for miles along the shoreline, most early French-Canadian women retained old fashioned forms of economic production and customary rights over land ownership. Noel demonstrates how this continued even as the world changed around them by comparing their lives to those of their contemporaries in France, England, and New England."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781442643963 (bound)
ISBN: 9781442612389 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
337 pages, 12 pages plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-337)
Formatted Contents Note:	Transatlantic trends, 1600-1800 -- River of promise -- Women and the St Lawrence fur trade -- Water, woods, earth : making a living -- Comparing laws of property -- Noble codes, colonial translations -- Decoding the eighteenth-century convent -- Continuities in British Quebec.