Category: Plessis, J.-O.

Othering the Madawaska in Travel Narratives

PL Acadians, Anti-Catholicism, Borderlands, British Canada, Canada-U.S. Relations, French Canada, French-Canadian Customs, Historical Memory, Madawaska, Nativism, Plessis, J.-O., Republicanism, Roman Catholic Church Leave a comment

Three month ago, this blog plunged into the Upper St. John Valley, an area whose history often falls on the margins of existing narratives. The hard work of reconstructing the history of the Madawaska, its relationship with neighboring regions, and its place within empires is complicated by surviving sources that tell (at best) a partial […]

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Traveling with a Bishop in 1815, Part II

PL Acadians, Anti-Catholicism, Borderlands, British Canada, Canada-U.S. Relations, Canadian Francophonies, French Canada, HistAmRel, Lake Champlain, Mignault Family, New York State, Nova Scotia, Plessis, J.-O., Religious Encounters, Roman Catholic Church Leave a comment

See Part I here. His arduous journey was still far from over as Bishop Plessis definitively left Halifax on July 27. A carriage provided by a Mr. Conroy took them overland to Windsor, a town with a small estuary opening on the Bay of Fundy. Plessis seemed startled to find a good number of Black […]

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Traveling with a Bishop in 1815, Part I

PL Acadians, Borderlands, British Canada, Canada-U.S. Relations, Canadian Francophonies, Mignault Family, Nova Scotia, Plessis, J.-O., Quebec History, Religious Encounters, Roman Catholic Church Leave a comment

Four men joined the expedition—men of the cloth, all with a strong constitution, able to carry a heavy load of personal belongings, supplies, and religious items that would eventually fill up Quebeckers’ deep well of curse words. De Boucherville, Gaulin, Gauvreau, and Bolduc had as their esteemed companion and leader the bishop of Quebec, Joseph-Octave […]

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