Quebec and Its Historians: The Twentieth Century

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NOTES Abbreviations: ACAM Archives de la chancellerie de Parcheveche de Montreal AE Actualite economique AN Action nationale BRH Bulletin des recherches historiques CHAR Canadian Historical Annual Report CHR Canadian Historical Review CJEPS Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science DCB Dictionary of Canadian Biography ESHQ Economic and Social History of Quebec JHALC Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada LC Lower Canada MG Manuscript group PAG Public Archives of Canada PAQ Public Archives of Quebec PDF Presses universitaires de France PUL Presses de 1'UniversiteLaval PUM Presses de 1'Universite de Montreal PUQ Presses de 1'Universite du Quebec RAPQ Reports of the Archivist of the Province of Quebec RHAF Revue d'histoire de I'Amerique franfaise RS Recherches sociographiques SCHEC Societe canadienne d'histoire de I'Eglise catholique Foreword 1. There are praiseworthy exceptions such as David Carr, William Dray, et al.,Philosophy of History and Contemporary Historiography (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1982). 167 168 Quebec and its Historians Introduction 1. Claude Galarneau, La France devant I'opinion canadienne (17601815 ) (Quebec: PUL, 1970). Jacques Monet, The Last Cannon Shot (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969), published in French as La Premiere revolution tranquille. Le nationalisme canadien-franfais, 1837-1850 (Montreal: Fides, 1981). 2. I will be discussing European influence later. French-Canadian works that influenced Hamelin, Ouellet, and others include Aegidius Fauteux, Essai sur I'industrie au Canada sous le regimefranfais (Quebec: L.-A. Proulx, 1927); Ivanhoe Caron, La Colonisation de la province de Quebec. Debuts du regime anglais, 1760-1791 (Quebec: L'Action sociale, 1923), and La Colonisation de la province de Quebec (Quebec: L'Action sociale, 1927). 3. Seraphin Marion, Relations des voyageurs en Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siecle (Paris: PUF, 1923). Gustave Lanctot, L'Administration de la Nouvelle-France (Paris: Champion, 1929). Antoine Roy,Les Lettres, les arts, et les sciences au Canada sous le regime francais (Paris: Jouve, 1930). Paul-Emile Renaud, Les Origines economiques du Canada (Mamers: n.p., 1928). Chapter I 1. Denis Vaugeois, L'Union des deux Canadas. Nouvelle Conquete? (Trois-Rivieres: Editions du Bien public, 1962), 127, n. 1. 2. Arthur Maheux, Ton Histoire est une epopee (Quebec, 1941), published in English as French Canada and Britain: A New Interpretation , tr. R.M. Saunders (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942). This is the text of lectures given at Laval University.Father Archange Godbout wrote a detailed survey of the controversy that followed its publication . Archange Godbout, «Les Preoccupations en histoire et les theses de M. 1'Abbe Maheux,» Culture, 4 (1943), 28-43. Godbout based his text on no less than 28 cited reviews and articles. 3. Arthur Maheux, Pourquoi sommes-nous divises? (Radio-Canada, 1943), published in English as Canadian Unity: What Keeps Us Apart? (Quebec: Les Editions des Bois-Francs, 1944). 4. Ibid., p. 56. 5. Lionel Groulx, Chez nosancetres (Montreal: Bibliotheque de 1'Action francaise, 1922), 12. This passage refutes the sermon preached by Monseigneur Paquet in 1902, part of which was frequently quoted in the sixties to explain Quebec's economic lag. It has been referred to byJean-Charles Falardeau, Roland Parenteau, Jean Lesage, Marcel Trudel, Michel Brunei, and Mason Wade, to name a few notable examples. 6. The theme of survival dominates English-Canadian historical literature, as can be seen in Ramsay Cook's "La Survivance.English Notes 169 Canadian Style," The Maple Leaf Forever (Toronto: Macmillan, 1971), chapter 9. 7. Maheux, Pourquoi sommes-nous divises?, 124. 8. A.R.M. Lower also supports this view in Colony toNation, as do other Ontario historians. J.M.S. Careless, in Canada: A Story of Challenge (Macmillan, 1953), gives it as the explanation for the English Canadians' excessive zeal in rallying to the defense of the British Empire. 9. It should be remembered that in 1950, Abbe Maheux wascochairman of a commission of the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association, which reached the conclusion that history textbooks throughout Canada should be revised to foster national unity. Commentary on this subject by some leading Canadian and American historians appeared in AN (May 1950). 10. Guy Fregault, "Le Mythe de M. le chanoine Groulx,"AN (Nov. 1944): 163-173. 11. Michel Brunei, "French-Canadian Interpretations of Canadian History," Rebuilding the Canadian Union—A Symposium of the Viewpoint of theFrench-Speaking Canadian (Toronto: Public Lectures of the York District High School Board, 1964), 8. 12. Even though Fregault left Montreal in the late fifties, most of his work was...