Christopher Moore's History News

In the Globe and Mail , Maura Forrest reports on how the mayor of Plessisville, QC. (pop. 9000), the until now undisputed " Capitale mo...

On his Substack, Paul Wells reprints in translation   Jean-François Nadeau's recent column on Quebec's secularism law, currently at...

We were briefly in Montreal last week  -- colder and snowier than Toronto, but still a pleasure to visit.   While we were there, the debate ...

I imagine a lot of my friends in academia or in Quebec, or both, are caught up in the Legault government's plan to discourage students f...

I'm just back from a brief holiday in Quebec and particularly the Charlevoix region. Happy to report, there is an excellent recent guide...

This week's new entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography is Aegidius Fauteux , historian, librarian, lawyer, homme de lettres.  In...

In La Presse , Yves Boisvert has an interesting examination as to whether Québec nationalism has taken a conservative ethno-cultural turn a...

 Alex Usher at the HESA blog goes to town on the new "academic" "freedom" law proposed in Quebec: Come. Let us speak to...

Mario Dumont, who used to be a populist force in Quebec politics and actually named a political party -- the Equipe Mario Dumont -- for hims...

Today, December 10, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948, is the Inter...

Fernand Ouellet, one of the most respected and most controversial of twentieth-century Canadian historians, died the other day. His books in...

At the Borealia site for early Canadian history, Olivier Guimond offers a fascinating review of  Benoît Grenier (dir.) (coll. Alain Laberge ...

J'ai serai candidate. I don't follow French language media as much as, well, I'd like to, but even I have been struck by th...

19th century New Englanders torch a Catholic church in Bath, Maine Franco-American historian David Vermette has a notable piece on the...

I've occasionally puzzled about the scarcity of histories of the October Crisis of 1970, even mused about writing one myself. Where ...

I've been browsing in a new book of essays: Legacy: How French Canadians Shaped North America , edited by longtime Montreal journali...

As part of our occasional series of book reviews contributed by friends of this blog, today we offer a notice by Elsbeth Heaman of McGill U...

The Morning After builds on a pretty terrific premise:  talk to (first, secure access to!) all the principals in the 1995 Quebec referen...

This old post , about the PQ shifting from the "social" to the "national," still seems to describe what is happening in...

In his thinking about Quebec history from New France to recent decades, my old professor Fernand Ouellet used to come back to what he ref...