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Volume 1, part 2 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on Canada’s Residential Schools carries the story of the residential school system from the end of the Great Depression to the closing of the last remaining schools in the late 1990s. It demonstrates that the underfunding and unsafe living conditions that characterized the … Read More >
Last week our MQUP colleagues, Ryan Van Huijstee and Elena Goranescu, attended the event in Ottawa announcing the completion of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Here are Ryan’s observations:
The words “moved” and “moving” were used frequently over the last week to describe the release of the Truth and Reconciliation … Read More >
Two chairs were left empty on the stage at this week’s official release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The chairs were there to honour the memory of the children who never returned from the residential schools.
Below, a sobering excerpt from Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, volume 4 of … Read More >
McGill-Queen’s University Press has undertaken to publish its own edition of the six volumes of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in English and French, after the TRC officially releases the report in mid-December. The final report is expected to be over 2 million words with contributions from over 6,750 … Read More >
MQUP was proud to take part in a tribute to Terry Fenge at a conference in Ottawa this week. Terry co-edited two books for MQUP, including the new collection Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada. He died of a sudden heart attack in early November, soon … Read More >
THE WRITINGS OF DAVID THOMPSON, VOLUME 2
The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts
Edited by William E. Moreau
David Thompson’s Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and … Read More >
ANTHEMS AND MINSTREL SHOWS, Brian C. Thompson’s biography of Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was reviewed in The Montreal Gazette this past weekend. The following is an excerpt from Ian McGillis’ piece, O really? The little-known origins of O Canada.
One summer, without having planned it, I spent late June … Read More >
Fresh from the printer this week: two new books from the Studies on the History of Quebec Series that look at how people lived in 19th-century Montreal.
BEYOND BRUTAL PASSIONS: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal
By Mary Anne Poutanen
A social history exploring the intersections between those accused of prostitution, their neighbours, families, clients, and criminal justice.
During a time of significant … Read More >
Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada.
In ANTHEMS AND MINSTREL SHOWS, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the … Read More >
CONSUMERS IN THE BUSH, our latest from the McGill-Queen’s Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series, looks at Upper Canadian general stores and the goods that settlers bought during the 19th century.
Challenging the popular notion that early settlers were self-sufficient and cut off from the market, author Douglas McCalla looks at the consumption patterns during this period and shows evidence of a more active … Read More >