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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
This paper is limited to the French-speaking Canadians; it does not include those who live in the United States, in the West Indies, in Latin America. In time it applies mainly to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The cultural foundation of the French Canadians is rooted in the sixteenth century. Most of the settlers who came from Old France to New France had been born in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, or were sons of these.
Their culture was made of a rich folklore still alive, of the laws then called the Coutume de Paris, which survive in the civil law still applied in the province of Quebec, of social attitudes which for a long time were characterized by the seignorial system, of ideas about education, of scientific curiosity then awakening in Europe, and of religious attitudes.
Arthur Maheux is Professor Emeritus of the University of Laval, Quebec, and Archivist of Quebec Seminary. At various times he has been Visiting Professor at McGill University, University of Paris, and the University of Toronto. He has received the Order of the British Empire, the lauréat of the French Academy, and a Pontifical Medal from Pope Pius XII. In 1948–1949 he was President of the Canadian Historical Association, and in 1956 he was named a fellow of the Canadian Geographical Society. Among his publications, the following deserve special mention: Propos sur l’Education (1941); Nos Débuts sous le Régime anglais (1941); French Canada and Britain: A New Interpretation (1942); Pourquoi sommes-nous divisés? (1943); What keeps us apart? (1944); Problems of Canadian Unity (1944). Address: Seminaire de Quebec, Quebec, P. Q., Canada.
* Arthur Maheux is Professor Emeritus of the University of Laval, Quebec, and Archivist of Quebec Seminary. At various times he has been Visiting Professor at McGill University, University of Paris, and the University of Toronto. He has received the Order of the British Empire, the lauréat of the French Academy, and a Pontifical Medal from Pope Pius XII. In 1948–1949 he was President of the Canadian Historical Association, and in 1956 he was named a fellow of the Canadian Geographical Society. Among his publications, the following deserve special mention: Propos sur l’Education (1941); Nos Débuts sous le Régime anglais (1941); French Canada and Britain: A New Interpretation (1942); Pourquoi sommes-nous divisés? (1943); What keeps us apart? (1944); Problems of Canadian Unity (1944). Address: Seminaire de Quebec, Quebec, P. Q., Canada.