Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Quebec
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Description
Article suggests that the goals of the Ursuline nuns in Québéc—conversion and assimilation of Indigenous girls in New France—is complicated by various factors including correspondence from the French crown, the convent’s relationship with Jesuit orders, and Indigenous resistance to assimilation.