Quebec during the American invasion, 1775-1776 : the journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams
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Quebec during the American invasion, 1775-1776 : the journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams
Michigan State University Press, c2005
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Journal de MM. Baby, Taschereau et Williams, 1776
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Translation of: Journal de MM. Baby, Taschereau et Williams, 1776
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-138) and index
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Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal of Francois Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, and Jenkin Williams provides an insight into the failure to incite rebellion in Quebec by American revolutionaries. While other sources have shown how British soldiers and civilians and the French-Canadian gentry (the seigneurs) responded to the American invasion of 1775-1776, this journal focuses on French-Canadian peasants, "les habitants", who made up the vast majority of the population; in other words, the journal helps explain why Quebec did not become the "fourteenth colony".
After American forces were expelied from Quebec in early 1776, British governor Sir Guy Carleton sent three trusted envoys to discover who collaborated with the rebels from the south. They traveled to fifty-six parishes and missions in the Quebec and Trois Rivieres district, discharging disloyal militia officers, and replacing them with faithful subjects. They prepared a report on each parish, revealing actions taken to support the Americans or the king. Baby and his colleagues documented a wide range of responses. Some habitants enlisted with the Americans; others supplied them with food, firewood, and transportation. Some habitants refused to co-operate with the king's soldiers. In some parishes, women were the Americans' most zealous supporters. Overall, the Baby Journal clearly reveals that the habitants played an important, but often overlooked, role in the American invasion.
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