HIST 3301A: Quebec Since 1800

HIST 3301A: Quebec Since 1800
Fall 2025

men sitting at a table with microphones in front of them — One crucial event of studied early in the course is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, which was signed at a late-night ceremony in Quebec City on Nov.11, 1975, by Inuit leaders Charlie Watt and Zebedee Nungak, then-Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, and late Cree Chief Billy Diamond (far right), pictured here. Source: File Photo, *Nunatsiaq News*, 7 November 2014. https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674montreal_inuit_plan_jbnqa_day_feast/

Introductions

An exploration of the historical roots of current issues in Quebec public life. The chronological survey will be organised backwards, from the present day to the past. All the way, it will pay special attention to the of transnational aspects of the history of Quebec, the major transformations of the physical environment, economy, social relations and cultures of its peoples.

This course also presents the many, and changing, ways used by historians to discover and explain the past of nowadays peoples living on the territory of Quebec. It discusses conflicting understandings, received ideas, prejudices, assumptions and misconceptions.

The course will train students in the use of the main tools for finding information to research the history of what is now called Quebec, from its earliest times to the present. It provides a chance to participate in hands on and collaborative workshops, and to assemble progressively a substantial individual project on a theme of choice.

Class format & workload:

We meet once a week for three hours. The weekly cycle of 12 hours of work starts on Thursdays: four hours of preparatory work (reading, watching lectures and conversations), four hours of engagement with the class (exchanging with class as a whole in class and sometimes virtually, exchanging with one group, with the Instructor or the Teaching Assistant), as well as four hours of work on an individual term project. There will be optional field trips to heritage sites and/or institutions in the region.

TEXT: The following textbook is required: Gossage, Peter, and J. I. Little. An Illustrated History of Quebec : Tradition & Modernity Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Other readings will be available through the library course reserve system (ARES), and recordings through Brightspace.