This study examines one facet of the nineteenth-century territorial expansion of French Canada. It analyzes the principal features of the settlement history of the northern coast of the Gaspe Peninsula where colonization did not begin in earnest until the 1830s when the expansion of the Jersey cod fishery encouraged many Baie des Chaleurs residents to move permanently to the easternmost outports of the study area. Between 1840 and 1880, a much larger contingent of landless French-Canadians from parishes located between Levis and Matane, on the southern shore of the St. Lawrence River, settled the remainder of the Gaspe north coast. / Successful permanent settlement on the Gaspe coast hinged on the colon's ability to exploit a full array of maritime, littoral and terrestrial resources. This resulted in a clearly-defined annual cycle of subsistence and commercial activities and in the rise of a plural economy. The family and kin group played an instrumental role in this cycle of resource exploitation as well as in the migration process itself. In contrast, the French-Canadian clergy and politicians played only a minor role, despite the elite's many statements on the nineteenth-century colonization movement and notwithstanding the widespread impression that fervent Catholicism and a strong sense of nationalism dominated traditional French-Canadian society.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.71899 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Remiggi, Frank William. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Geography.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000187088, proquestno: AAINK66639, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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