I think the person you need to contact is Claire Saint-Germain, she gave a gerat paper in our
session at ICAZ called Hunting in New France: privilege or necessity? Abstract below.
Her email is
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Jacqui
Hunting in New France: privilege or necessity?
This paper will address a problem encountered by zooarchaeologists interested in the study of
foodways in countries colonised by Europeans newcomers. That is, the reliance of immigrants on wild
resources for their survival. This problem is applied to New France, the French colony in North
America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The hypothesis that the newcomers (French colonists in Canada) relied a great deal on wild food
resources for their subsistence will be explored. They had to adapt to new cultural and
environmental conditions with new constraints and advantages. Amongst these advantages was the
availability of a wide range of wild species. In France some of these were reserved to nobility.
Since many of the colonists of New France were not of the nobility what did this access to
previously 'forbidden' resources mean to them? At first, before husbandry practices were well
established, were the wild resources a choice or a necessity? In a colony where the fur trade was
an important economical activity, do faunal remains reflect food consumption or exploitation of the
animals for fur? Faunal assemblages from the St-Lawrence Valley will be used as a case study to
investigate this issue. This analysis is part of the Ph.D. research of the author on foodways in
New France and the emergence of an alimentary system based on the French model but shaped by the
North American context.
>>> Guylaine Landry <[log in to unmask]> 09/03/2007 16:43 >>>
Hello!
A friend of mine is looking for any documentation regarding the practice
of husbandry in Quebec(Canada) during the historical period. Does anyone
have reference about that subject?
Thanks!!!
(Her e-mail is [log in to unmask])
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