Book Description
This digital document is an article from Historical Studies, published by The Canadian Catholic Historical Assn. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5380 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Entre Revo1ution tranquille et aggiornamento conciliaire: evolution dans le gouvernement du diocese de Quebec au cours des annees 1960.
Author: Gilles Routhier
Publication: Historical Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: The Canadian Catholic Historical Assn.
Page: 47

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, published by Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 2174 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Quebec's budget cuts will hurt all of the performing arts, but the separatist movement has put a great deal of pressure on English-speaking companies and performers. Many have to travel to achieve financial success. Anglo-Quebecer comedian Lorne Elliott points out the absurdities of Quebec politics.

Citation Details
Title: Hungry for survival?(performing arts in secession-minded Quebec)
Author: Alexander Craig
Publication: Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada
Volume: v30Issue: n2Page: p6(4)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1680 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Naturally native in beautiful Quebec. (Guide to Indian Country 2002: All My Relations).(Brief Article)
Author: Cheryl Petten
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: S4(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, published by Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1125 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The defeat of the 1980 referendum on sovereignty for Quebec depressed the Quebec artists that had supported it. Quebec popular culture moved toward consumption of Anglophone products until a new generation of indigenous artists began to emerge.

Citation Details
Title: Quebec artists: from depression to conquest.
Author: Claude Couillard
Publication: Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada
Volume: v29Issue: n1Page: p8(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, published by Canadian Criminal Justice Association on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6694 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Le partenariat pour la prevention du crime constitue une approche de plus en plus populaire dans la coproduction de la securite des collectivites. Toutefois, une certaine confusion et un usage inadequat existent avec le terme de partenariat. Afin de clarifier ce concept, cette etude definit le partenariat et ce qui le distingue des autres modes d'actions collectives. Une enquete a ete menee aupres des principaux specialistes de la prevention du crime au Quebec pour connaitre leurs perceptions et experiences de la demarche partenariale. L'analyse des resultats de l'enquete souligne que le partenariat multidisciplinaire permet un acces bonifie aux ressources et aux clienteles, favorise le reseautage des partenaires, ameliore les resultats des actions et procure un diagnostic de securite plus complet. Certaines conditions faciliteraient aussi l'elaboration et le fonctionnement du partenariat. Par contre, le peu de temps habituellement alloue a la consolidation de la demarche partenariale, les changements dans les structures, les cultures organisationnelles difficiles a concilier et la precarite financiere des organismes sont des facteurs qui peuvent nuire au partenariat. Dans le contexte sociopolitique actuel, les partenariats en prevention du crime vont se multiplier malgre des conditions de base importantes a satisfaire. Des enjeux majeurs demeurent et vont influencer les debats sur les nouveaux partenariats, particulierement le manque d'imputabilite des regroupements partenariaux et l'essoufflement des organisations qui, dans un contexte de precarite, ne cessent d'etre sollicitees pour de nouveaux partenariats. Le partenariat amene donc une serie de defis pour l'ensemble des acteurs en prevention du crime.

Citation Details
Title: Le partenariat dans la prevention du crime en milieu urbain: les defis d'une culture a consolider.(includes text in English)(Quebec)
Author: Sophie Paquin
Publication: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Canadian Criminal Justice Association
Volume: 47Issue: 2Page: 317(19)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

A Confession
Look, I am biased. I took his class in my freshman year of college. But I was a poor student who needed to fufill a humanities credit, and from the description of the course booklet, it seemed vaguely interesting.

But there are a few things you need to consider about me, the reviewer:

Due to my overwhelming and stupid class schedule, I was sleeping poorly and thus (since his class was in the morning) I either skipped it or slept in the back of the lecture hall. But I made sure to read this very book and attend the TA sessions.
Despite my lack of time spent on the class itself, I managed to learn quite a lot of things from this book and the professor, Richard Handler.

One, I learned about the contradictory nature of "perservation" and the use of assigning organic qualities to a "culture." I am sure other people can go into this with more eloquence than I can provide at the present time (particularly since I have not read the book in 6 years, but I will correct that.) I also learned about the Western chauvinism that leads people to paint "primitive cultures" as "Stone Age" and not as "Contemporary."

Anyhow, buy the darn book, people. Maybe you can learn something. Or if you are going to UVA, take his class. He's a great professor. Yeah, I slept through quite a bit of his lectures, but he always managed to wake me up when he started to get angry at the injustices of the world and then he would start to curse and rant and yell. Dang, I would think. This prof really believes in his stuff. He's passionate for one thing, and I think that's a good thing in a professor, a writer, and a thinker. ... Read more

Book Description

Book Description
Ce livre se doit d'etre une contribution a la recherche sur le Quebec en Allemagne et en Autriche ou l'epopee du Quebec au sein du Canada a ete sous-estimee. Encore maintenant, les etudes franco-canadiennes font figure de discipline recente dans les pays de langue allemande. Ainsi les directeurs de publication de ce volume désiraient-ils présenter une palette assez large des dernieres tendances dans les differentes recherches historique, politique, litteraire et linguistique. Ils desirent presenter, par la-meme, a la communaute scientifique et au public interesse, les grandes lignes de la societe quebecoise, de ses identites culturelles et des enjeux qui en resultent. Ces derniers ne peuvent-ils pas servir de modele au d'autres societes modernes, elles aussi vivant les tensions entre leurs caracteres distincts et une integration plus globalisante? ... Read more

Book Description
Winner of the 2000 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction

A hip, enlightening portrait of a place most Canadians find baffling: Quebec without the politics.

Why do three million Quebecers tune in the same absurd sitcom every week? How did they get the nickname "pepsis"? Why does Celine Dion put on a down-home accent when she returns to her home province?

For referendum-weary English Canadians, Quebec is an enigma wrapped in a yawn. Taras Grescoe treats the province as an exotic destination. He takes readers onto the shuffleboard courts of Florida, to a francophone country-and-western festival in rural Mauricie, to the café tables of expatriate Quebecers in Paris. He deconstructs a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, explores the stunning diversity of Quebec’s newspapers, and dismantles Bombardier snowmobiles. En route, he meets Mohawk Warriors, Yiddish-speaking French Canadians, and the UFO-obsessed followers of Raël.

Informed and incisive, Sacré Blues explores the heart of contemporary Quebec: its love-hate relationship with France and the United States; the dance, theatre, and literary productions celebrated in Europe but little known here; its fears about distinctness on an increasingly uniform continent. Along the way we meet such Quebec residents as the playwright Michel Tremblay and the novelist Neil Bissoondath, Teleglobe CEO Charles Sirois and the arctic explorer Bernard Voyer, the foul-mouthed columnist Pierre Foglia and the esteemed philosopher Charles Taylor.

Sacré Blues serves up a spicy, irreverent, inside view of this unique and little-known part of North America. With side orders of poutine, maple syrup, and Vachon snack cakes. And scarcely a mention of Lucien Bouchard. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (16)

I really enjoyed reading this book!
I got this book before my first trip to Quebec, what a great read.My boyfriend is from Montreal and he joked that I probably learned more and now know more about Quebec than he does b/c I kept saying "did you know this or do you know that?"...I loved the sarcasm of the author, it was written in a way that doesn't make you feel like you're reading a boring history book... this book falls somewhere between a history book and a tour guide book.
I learned so many amazing things from this book -- even learned things that his family didn't even know about and they live there.I really felt like the things I read helped me appreciate the things I saw once I was there --it made things that much more special for me b/c I had a better understanding of the people and how things are the way they are.Thank you Taras Grescoe!!!!

Well written, funny, useful
The author has a nice turn of phrase, and a lovely sense of humor.But better yet, I found that it made my trip more enjoyable by putting a few things in context.I certainly wouldn't have recognized the poetry on my B&B door as coming from a beloved Quebecois poet without reading this book; or understood why TV sitcom writers enjoy enough prestige to have a little local shrine of newspaper articles dedicated to them.

Very Interesting Look at Quebec
I really enjoyed reading this book and I feel I've learned quite a bit about Quebec. It's a very fascinating province that I hope to visit one of these days. The author weaves a very complex subject into a layman's quilt about the various facets of Quebecois society. The chapters on language and the societal ills since the Quite Revolution in the 60's are most interesting.
The only thing that I didn't like about this book is the author's typical Canadian cheap shots at the United States. Why the author has to fall into this typical Canadian mindset is beyond me. I thought this book was about Quebec. But here the author implies throughout the book how Canada and Quebec are better than the United States just because THEY'RE NOT THE UNITED STATES. Talk about an inferiority complex. For example, the author is trying to defend Quebec zenophobiaby pointing out America's supposed faults, by saying things like " The Americans, noted for their facade of equal opportunity,were in fact the most inegalitarian of people."....."the country has a bizarre myopia over it's apparently permanant class of blacks and Hispanics."
Excuse me? But it's America's fault that the black and Hispanic underclass sit around collecting dole while simultaniously blaming the white man for everything? How about we send our underclasses up to Canada, Taras? Maybe you, since you're such a compassionate Canadian, can help them out and kiss their behind.
Another gem from the author,"The United States, in contrast, seems to be engaged in a narcissistic dialogue, gazing at itself in a mirror as an increasingly disgusted world looks on." Say what? Again, this book is supposed to be about the author's journey through Quebec, not a Canadian's jealous perspective about the United States. And another whopper is where the author compares the crime rate of the entire province of Quebec with the city of Baltimore to supposedly show how low Quebec's crime rate is. LOL! Yeah, compare a predominantly black ghetto city with a predominantly white province. Nice try Taras.
Overall I really enjoyed the book and I do recommend it for people curious to learn about Quebec. It's just unfortunate that the author had to stoop to typical America bashing in an attempt to make some points. Maybe Taras Grescoe should take a journey through the United States. He might learn something instead of rehashing the same old Canadian anti-American newsbites.

Even Better Than Being There
In my youth Quebec was a vast country of farms still plowed by horses.There were so many religious that priests and nuns did missionary duty in the States.Francophones were indifferent to British rule.Then, seemingly overnight, this quaint civilization collapsed.Pastures became golf courses.Couples bore their children out of wedlock.Francophones took charge of their culture and country.In 1995 their ballots came within a fraction of a percentage point of independence.The 60s and 70s saw this "quiet revolution" that knocked down doors already tottering in decrepitude.What an immense change in so short a time!

I have always been curious about francophone culture, but could never quite crack it.My travels to Canada were too infrequent and my schoolboy French worthless.Bilingual friends ignored contentious talk.Sacre Blues is the rare book that gets inside Quebecois culture and language.You will learn about the famous Bill 101, attitudes toward anglophones, allophones, Americans and French.Lots of tidbits about joual and Quebecois curses.All the significant artists, media people and industrialists get a few paragraphs.There are some interesting statistics about who learns French and who stays in the province long enough to perpetuate the language.It seems pretty evident that unless Quebecers boost their numbers, this distinct culture will only be studied by historians.Grescoe is an objective Canadian- bilingual and deft with prose.This book should be mandatory reading for any outsiders who venture north.

Outstanding Overview of Quebec
For those with more than a casual interest in what the province of Quebec is all about, this book by multilingual Canadian journalist Grescoe is an excellent, evenhanded place to start. The twelve chapters do an admirable job of untangling the complicated web of ethnic, linguistic, political, and religious identities that make up Quebec. Grescoe gets things off to a quick start in the first chapter, providing a grab bag of examples of how the province is different from its Canadian and American neighbors: attitudes toward cheese, margarine, gun control, gay rights, smoking, the legal system, pornography, and more quickly get the point across. The chapter also establishes the tone for the rest of the book, as it ranges freely over the subject matter, sometimes doubling back, sometimes repeating itself, often employing statistics, but always in the service of trying to understand Quebec.

Chapter two has a brief history of the province's settlement, and quickly debunks the myth of the prevalence of "pure" francophone founders. This segues into an overview of Quebec's Jews, which leads to a discussion of recent immigration, and the whole notion of how a modern multicultural province can exist with a mythology of racial purity lurking in the background. Chapter three deals exclusively with the influence of France as a "mother country" which naturally leads to the next chapter, which is a lengthy examination of Quebecois French. Here, the author has an embarrassment of riches in terms of examples, however they are perhaps best appreciated by readers with a solid understanding of French.

Grescoe is a journalist, so it's not surprising that he devotes the entirety of chapter five to an exploration of the robust Quebecois print media. It's an interesting way of looking at a place, and not a lens one commonly encounters -- ultimately he concludes that as in many places around the world: "in Quebec, we're not likely to see serious coverage of issues that would threaten political and corporate power." It's a short hop from print to television, which is covered in the next chapter. Obviously television provides an interesting window onto a society and how it views itself -- especially in Quebec, where people watch more TV than in any other province. Grescoe dives right in, examining some of the popular genres and shows, as well as touching upon Celine Dion. The pop culture focus continues in chapter seven, which is a series of 21 brief profiles of Quebecois singers, writers, filmmakers, events, and stuff, most of which will be completely unfamiliar to outsiders (except for Circle du Soleil) but are well known in the province. It's cutely a good chapter to quickly dip into to get a sense of some of the differences discussed throughout the book.

In contrast to the relative lightheartedness of the previous chapter, chapter eight is about Quebec's native population (currently around 75,000 from 11 different Indian nations) and their grievances. As in the rest of the continent, Quebec's native population has gotten the shaft ever since colonizers first arrived. Grescoe talks to various tribal representatives, and an ironically unpleasant picture emerges of a province clamoring for the right of self-determination in order to escape external cultural and economic domination -- only to deny these very same claims by the native population. The next chapter discusses both the actual Quebecois winter and the idea of winter in the province's mythology. This naturally also involves a trip to Florida, where a huge number of retired Quebecois spend the harsh winter months.

Chapter ten is a good overview about the province's economy and business climate, including a visit to multinational transportation giant Bombardier. This is followed by a chapter about religion and change, more specifically about the shocking decline in practicing Catholics in the last forty years. Again, with remarkable evenhandedness, Grescoe finds a lot of good and bad in this cultural development. In many ways, it's a reflection of the same kind of cultural tug-of-wars that have gone on in the U.S. since the '60s, with many of the same tensions. The final chapter attempts to sum up Grescoe's three years of observing Quebec and perhaps unsurprisingly, for better and for worse, he sees increasing globalization as a erosive force on the province's distinct identity.

Grescoe's done a wonderful job of cutting to the core of things while keeping his writing lively and accessible. Each chapter is about a topic that would take an entire book to completely cover, and yet with a mix of on the scenes reportage, statistics, interviews with politicians, businessmen, intellectuals, artists, experts, and people on the street, Grescoe manages to avoid superficiality and present the complex issues. Although occasionally repetitive and cursed with an awful cover, it's highly recommended for anyone with more than a passing interest in Quebec, especially those intending to visit. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Revue parlementaire canadienne, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2421 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: L'avenir du patrimoine religieux du Quebec.(Rapport de la commission de la culture)
Author: Bernard Brodeur
Publication: Revue parlementaire canadienne (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29Issue: 3Page: 14(3)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more