When: 16 January 2019
Location: Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor McLennan Library Building, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Description
Prof. Allan Greer, McGill Department of History and Classical Studies, compares the approaches to indigenous land and colonist property in New France, New Spain, and New England. He discusses how Europeans brought complex legal constructs about land and property to North America, which then were informed by the local conceptions of land use and access rights. Relationships and agreements between the Indigenous peoples and the new colonists shifted and changed over time, resulting in loss of land for the Indigenous groups.
Liaison Librarian Ann Marie Holland gave comments on the Rare Books and Special Collections holdings relating to New France. The accompanying exhibition was realized by Ann Marie Holland.
The collections can consulted in the Rare Books and Archives Reading room Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM. Contact liaison librarianann.marie.holland [at] mcgill.ca ( Ann Marie Holland )for reference guidance.
16 January 2019, Rare Books & Special Collections Reading Room.
Introduction: Prof. Nathalie Cooke, Prof. Carman Miller
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