| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Canada and the United States

Colin M. Coates. The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec. (Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec.) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 231. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.95.

This book is one of the rare modern contributions to the history of the mid-St. Lawrence valley during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Colin M. Coates wants to show how the landscape in Batiscan and Saint-Anne seigneuries, east of Trois-Rivières, was progressively transformed from a deep forest to a settled farmland, and how this transformation toward an agrarian landscape, which took place during the French regime, resisted later endeavors by the British to create an industrial and picturesque landscape. This study also demonstrates the continuity of a French-Canadian way of life revolving around the family and seasonal labor, despite pressures coming from successive new ideologies of organization. Coates makes admirable use of a wide range of sources, including notarial acts, local court records, census, maps, and sketches. . . .

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