Historical Studies articles from January 1 2007

Historical Studies archives from January 1 2007

Editors' foreword.
January 1, 2007... We are pleased to present Volume 73 of Historical Studies, featuring papers presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the English Section of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association at York University, as well as papers submitted by scholars...

"Marie-Rose, stigmatisee de woonsocket": the construction of a Franco-American saint cult, 1930-1955.
January 1, 2007... Marie-Rose (Rose) Ferron, a Franco-American mystic stigmatic, was born in Quebec and raised in New England. Between c.1925-1936, she was a popular "victim soul" who suffered physically to redeem the sins of her community. This article looks at...

Canadian Catholic history: the CCHA journal over seventy years.(Canadian Catholic Historical Association)
January 1, 2007... The article offers a description of the seventy issues of the journal published between 1933 and 2004, with an emphasis on a statistical analysis of the pattern of periods, geographical areas, topics, and authors represented therein. This...

Personal recollections and reflections on the implementation of the second Vatican Council by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (1964-1990) (1).
January 1, 2007... The author draws on his long-time intimate experience as a senior executive and advisor of the Canadian bishops' conference to recount how the bishops set about implementing their new vision of "church in the world" gained at Vatican II. To be...

Canada's University: Father Levesque, Canadian aid, and the National University of Rwanda.(Georges-Henri Levesque)
January 1, 2007... Between 1963 and 1966, the National University of Rwanda received the largest amount of official aid that the Canadian government gave to any of the French-speaking countries of Africa and became one of Canada's largest aid projects overall...

From frontier priest to urban prelate: Father Edmund Burke Kilroy.(Biography)
January 1, 2007... This paper examines the unconventional Career path of Father Edmund Burke Kilroy (1830-1904), and the primary reason behind his decision to leave the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1859 and become a diocesan priest, and to reject President...

Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier. By Mark G. McGowan. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xvii, 378 p.: ill., maps, ports. Mark McGowan's appointment in 1991 to an assistant...

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970. By Michael Gauvreau. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xiv, 506 pp. $85.00 Recently awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. Macdonald...

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. By Allan Greer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 249. $39.95. Seventeenth century Canada included a population of natives, newcomers, supernatural forces and unseen...

A current bibliography of Canadian religious history/Bibliographie recente d'histoire religieuse du Canada.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... Introduction Il n'y a pas de changement dans l'ordre de presentation des sections cette annee. Les sections qui sont habituellement les plus longues se retrouvent a la fin de la bibliographie. Dans chaque section, les ouvrages sont...

La religion, fer de lance de l'aide aux demunis dans la communaute protestante montrealaise au [XIX.sup.e] siecle et au debut du [XX.sup.e] siecle (1).
January 1, 2007... Abstract : The social service network that was slowly developing in the XIXth and early XXth centuries in protestant Montreal was influenced by a mixture of Christian duty, evangelism and liberal ideology. Religion was thus key to the work of...

Etre journaliste catholique au [XX.sup.e] siecle, un apostolat : les exemples de Jules Dorion et Eugene L'Heureux.
January 1, 2007... Abstract : During the 20th century, journalists, be they Catholic or not, have worked in a new environment. The daily press is now aimed at a larger readership and information is more important than opinion. Do Catholic journalists, usually...

Etre digne de l'Esto Vir. Une exploration de la socialisation religieuse chez les acejistes (1904-1931).(Association catholique de la jeunesse canadienne-francaise )
January 1, 2007... Abstract : One of the main goals of the Association catholique de la jeunesse canadienne-francaise (ACJC) was to make its members openly and sincerely become enthusiastic Catholics. Yet, the mentality ofthe early XXth century did not approve...

L'implication du clerge et du laicat dans les cine-clubs etudiants au Quebec, 1949-1970 (1).(Quebec's student film society movement)
January 1, 2007... Abstract : This article focuses on the involvement of Catholic clergy and laity in Quebec's student film society movement of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Film societies emerged within the Quebec church at this time in order to...

Note de recherche: sur l'histoire du quotidien et la religion (1).(Quebec's religious history)
January 1, 2007... Abstract : Recounting the history of everyday life in its various forms poses different problems in regard to the time period under examination and the scholarly approach being taken. While French "histoire des mentalites" remained on the level...

Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970. Montreal / Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 501 p. 85 $ Dans un ouvrage remarquable, Michael Gauvreau dresse un portrait des origines et de la...

Serge Gagnon, Quand le Quebec manquait de pretres : la charge pastorale au Bas-Canada.
January 1, 2007... Serge Gagnon, Quand le Quebec manquait de pretres : la charge pastorale au Bas-Canada, Sainte-Foy, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2006, 426 p. 25 $. Serge Gagnon livre un ouvrage fascinant, riche et profond. Il le fait en historien,...

J. I. Little, The Other Quebec. Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-Century Religion and Society.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... J. I. Little, The Other Quebec. Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-Century Religion and Society, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006, 278 p, 35 $ Il est toujours agreable de lire les essais d'un historien au sommet de son art. Or...

Guy Laperriere, Les congregations religieuses. De la France au Quebec, 1880-1914.
January 1, 2007... Guy Laperriere, Les congregations religieuses. De la France au Quebec, 1880-1914. Tome 3, Vers des eaux plus calmes, 1905-1914, Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2005, 732 p. 39 $ Avec ce troisieme volume, Guy Laperriere acheve sa...

Paul Laverdure, Sunday in Canada. The Rise and Fall of the Lord's Day.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Paul Laverdure, Sunday in Canada. The Rise and Fall of the Lord's Day, Yorkton, Gravelbooks, 2004, xxiii, 253 p. 30 $ Paul Laverdure s'est penche sur l'histoire de la bataille en faveur du respect absolu du dimanche, menee par un groupe de...

Pierre Hebert, Yves Lever et Kenneth Landry, dir., Dictionnaire de la censure au Quebec--Litterature et cinema.
January 1, 2007... Pierre Hebert, Yves Lever et Kenneth Landry, dir., Dictionnaire de la censure au Quebec--Litterature et cinema, Montreal, Fides, 2006, 717 p. 55 $ Nicole M. Boisvert et Telesforo Tajuelo, La saga des interdits. La censure cinematographique...

Pascale Ryan, Penser la nation. La Ligue d'action nationale, 1917-1960.
January 1, 2007... Pascale Ryan, Penser la nation. La Ligue d'action nationale, 1917-1960, Montreal, Lemeac Editeur, 2006, 324 p. 30 $ Quoi qu'on en pense, on n'echappe jamais aux debats sur la nation au Quebec. On les croit depasses qu'aussitot ils...

Stephanie Angers et Gerard Fabre. Echanges intellectuels entre la France et le Quebec, 1930-2000.
January 1, 2007... Stephanie Angers et Gerard Fabre. Echanges intellectuels entre la France et le Quebec, 1930-2000. Les reseaux de la revue Esprit avec La Releve, Cite libre, Parti pris et Possibles, Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004, 248 p. 30 $...

Esther Delisle et Pierre K. Malouf, Le quatuor d'Asbestos. Autour de la greve de l'amiante.
January 1, 2007... Esther Delisle et Pierre K. Malouf, Le quatuor d'Asbestos. Autour de la greve de l'amiante. Montreal, Les Editions Varia, Collection >, 2004, 527 p. 40 $ Suzanne Clavette, Les dessous d'Asbestos. Une lutte ideologique contre la...

Robert Lebel, Mon Eglise que j'aime : ce que j'y ai vecu et ce dont j'ai ete temoin.
January 1, 2007... Deux eveques se racontent... Robert Lebel, Mon Eglise que j'aime : ce que j'y ai vecu et ce dont j'ai ete temoin, Quebec, Anne Sigier, 2004, 265 p. 25 $ Napoleon-Alexandre Labrie, Quelques souvenirs (1905-1931) et Chronique du diocese...

Jacques Lacoursiere, L'Ile-des-Soeurs. D'hier a aujourd'hui.
January 1, 2007... Jacques Lacoursiere, L'Ile-des-Soeurs. D'hier a aujourd'hui, Montreal, Les Editions de l'Homme, 2005, 261 p. 25 $ L'Ile-des-Soeurs. D'hier a aujourd'hui est un ouvrage de vulgarisation historique de qualite. On reconnait bien le talent et...

Pierre-Richard Bisson, Mario Brodeur et Daniel Drouin, Cimetiere Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.
January 1, 2007... Pierre-Richard Bisson, Mario Brodeur et Daniel Drouin, Cimetiere Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal, Henri Rivard Editeur, 2004, 192 p. 110 $ En 2002 et 2004, les cimetieres du Mont-Royal et de Notre-Dame-des-Neiges fetaient respectivement...

Gaetane Dufour, La modernite devient patrimoine. L'eglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin de Saint-Lambert.
January 1, 2007... Gaetane Dufour, La modernite devient patrimoine. L'eglise SaintThomas-d'Aquin de Saint-Lambert, Outremont, Editions Carte blanche, 2004, 129 p. 20 $ Au moment ou le Quebec est en pleine revolution tranquille survient l'aboutissement d'un...

Richard Gauthier, Le devenir de l'art d'eglise dans les paroisses catholiques du Quebec.
January 1, 2007... Richard Gauthier, Le devenir de l'art d'eglise dans les paroisses catholiques du Quebec. Architecture, arts, pratiques, patrimoine (1965-2002), Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2005, 183 p. 35 $ Le declin de la pratique...

Godefroy-C. Devost, Les deux allegeances d'Anselme Chiasson. Sa vie et son oeuvre.
January 1, 2007... Godefroy-C. Devost, Les deux allegeances d'Anselme Chiasson. Sa vie et son oeuvre, Moncton, Centre d'etudes acadiennes, Universite de Moncton, 2006, 387 p. 27 $ Le pere Anselme Chiasson (Charles a l'etat civil), frere mineur capucin, est...