Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords Volume 25

by Brian Young and Brian Young

History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec compares the French Catholic Taschereaus and the Anglican and English-speaking McCords. Consulting private, institutional, and legal archives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773544364
• ISBN13: 9780773544369
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.1"