French Canada's Diaspora and Labour History

French Canada's Diaspora and Labour History

Review of Jacques Rouillard's text, "Ah les Etats!: les travailleurs canadiens-français dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'après le témoignage des derniers migrants" (Boreal Express, 1985) couched in a brief reflection on Franco-American history. From the text: "More than ever it struck me as to just how elitist French Canada's historiography has been and to a large degree remains. The constitutional, nationalist, neo-nationalist, and ideological schools have all been recycling the same elitist hash: in essence a Whig interpretation from the loser's perspective. Rouillard's emigrants, however, were the survivors in the grand tradition of la survivance. Personal interests came first..."

LeBlanc, Andre

1987

en

Journal Article

1900s; New England;Canada

No

0700-3862

Fall

213-220

Labour/Le Travail

http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/viewFile/2444/2848 (full text available here)

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