Category Archives: Books

Canada Dry: Temperance Crusades before Confederation

by Jan Noel, University of Toronto Press, 1995 Winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Macdonald Prize for best monograph in Canadian History Purchase: https://www.amazon.ca/Canada-Dry-Temperance-Crusades-Confederation/dp/0802069762

Along a River: The First French Canadian Women

By Jan Noel University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2013 Purchase: http://www.utppublishing.com/Along-a-River-The-First-French-Canadian-Women.html French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country’s storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns,… Read More »

Race and Gender in the Northern Colonies

Edited and with an introduction by Jan Noel (Canadian Scholars Press, 2000) 421 pages. Purchase: https://www.amazon.ca/Race-Gender-Northern-Colonies-Noel/dp/1551301822

Women in New France

Canadian Historical Association Booklet. Full Text Canadian Historical Association Booklet (Ottawa: CHA, 1998) 30 pages.