Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women

‘Noel has crafted a work of academic scholarship that is bound to become a part of the Canadian history cannon… Highly recommended.’ B.F.R. Edwards, Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14

‘Noel does an outstanding job of placing women in the context of familial fur-trade enterprises and within noble military families…The considerable strides made in the history of women in New France is evident from this well-written book.’ Dale Miquelon, American Historical Review - vol 119:03:2014

‘Noel’s extraordinarily rich book traces the experiences and contributions of women in Canada from the 1630s to the 1850s… This book is a fine work of scholarship that will no doubt prove highly useful to scholars of the colonial Americas and the history of women.’

Micah True,, H-France vol 16:09:2016

‘A pleasure to read, Along a River, provides an engaging thematic analysis of the lives of female colonists along the St. Lawrence Valley from the 1630s to the 1830s. It makes an important contribution to our understandings of how the experiences of French Canadian women differed from those of women in France or the English colonies both during and after the British Conquest. General readers will appreciate Jan Noel's rich interpretive narrative and clear synthesis, while specialists will benefit from her command of a vast range of French- and English-language sources.’ Sophie White, American Studies, University of Notre Dame

‘This important book provides the first real synthesis of scholarship on French women in the St Lawrence Valley from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Jan Noel brings together the latest primary research on the topic, situating these findings within the historiographies of New France, France, England, and the American colonies. Her research on women and the St Lawrence fur trade is particularly notable.’

Leslie P. Choquette, Department of History, Assumption College