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Early Books in Aboriginal Languages : Witnesses of Founding Cultures (BAnQ)

Published between 1556 and 1900, these works contain concrete traces of the linguistic heritage of the first Aboriginal peoples who inhabited what is now Quebec: Iroquoian languages (including Mohawk and Wendat), Algonquian (including Algonquin, Abenaki, Cree, Innu, Mi’kmaq) as well as Inuktitut. These are alphabet books, syllabaries, grammars, dictionaries, lexicons, reading books and other textbooks. This collection also sheds light on the history of relations between indigenous communities and European settlers.

Subjects: Algonquins, Colonialism, Cree, Indigenous authors, Indigenous languages, Innu language, Linguistic

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Early encounters in North America : peoples, cultures, and the environment

Letters, stories, accounts and images from more than 1400 authors about the first contacts between First Peoples and Europeans, between 1534 and 1850. Provides access to documents by people, places, years, type of environments, etc.

Subjects: Colonialism, Europe, First contact, Indigenous peoples, Primary Sources

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Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Printed books, government, legal and commercial documents, newspapers and magazines, maps, photographs, etc., dealing with the theme of the borderlands and colonization during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Includes 18 archival collections from the United States and Canada, including the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (Archives of Manitoba) and thematic guides on First Nations, exploration, expeditions and travel.

Subjects: Borders, Colonialism, Exploration, Hudson’s Bay Company, Indigenous peoples, Primary Sources

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Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database

Bibliography of literature reporting first contact and first observations of the Inuit, hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Subjects: First contact, Literature, Inuit, Bibliography

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Illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals: Inuit mores and customs (BAnQ)

19th century documentary iconography corpus. These images, taken from Quebec magazines: L’Opinion publique (1870-1883), Monde Illustré (1884-1902,1907) and L’Album Univers (1902-1907), paint a picture of the cultural and social life of the Inuit in a time when photographs were uncommon.

Subjects: Inuit, Cultural identity, Villages, Hunting and fishing

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Images du Nord et de l’Arctique

Photographs and postcards of the Université Laval library, representing First Nations and Inuit, settlers, missionaries, explorers and landscapes from Canada’s Arctic and Northern Quebec. Includes photographs of the Judicial Expedition in 1923 at Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), with Captain Bernier.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous peoples, Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, Postcards, Missionaries, Northern Quebec, Photographs

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