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Le BHP, une revue savante à l’heure du numérique et du libre accès

Mathieu Arsenault and Ivan Carel

Penser le colonialisme dans les espaces du Québec contemporain

Martin Crevier and Éléna Choquette

Le financement du missionnariat catholique pour la colonisation des enfants autochtones du Nord-Ouest dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle

Mathieu Arsenault and Ollivier Hubert
Québécois colonialism cannot be disassociated from its long history of participation in French, British, Canadian and Catholic global imperial systems. Rooted in this premise, this article analyzes efforts to found schools and other establishments for Indigenous children undertaken by bishops in the Northwest Territories supported by international funding. Through the study of bureaucratic mechanisms that permitted bishops in Saint-Boniface and Saint-Albert to receive funds from the Association of the Holy Childhood and to establish an annual collection in Québec for schools in the Northwest Territories, the article complicates our understanding of the relationship between international structures of Catholic missions and French-Canadian colonialism. By outlining funding methods for Catholic social welfare institutions for Indigenous children established in the nineteenth century, this research demonstrates the importance of international funding structures for missions in the Northwest Territories and shows how they were influenced by the particular nature of Québec’s relationship to Catholic colonialism. The two case studies presented contribute to a better understanding of the role of Catholic missions and Québécois colonialism in the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.

Une scierie privée chez les Mi’gmaq de Listuguj : colonialisme, tensions interraciales et divisions communautaires (1902-1948)

David Bigaouette
In 1902, an agreement between the Indian Affairs Department, Capuchin missionaries, and the Mi’gmaq people intended to support private industry deemed useful for the economy gave the Chaleurs Bay Mills permission to operate on land leased from the Capuchin’s church and the Listiguj Mi’gmaq Reservation. Over time, the sawmill company failed to uphold certain agreements and sought to acquire more land in the community, even deploying legal and legislative pathways to expropriate land in the reservation. The arrival of White workers who came to work at the mill and settled in the community, meanwhile, brought about interracial tensions and raised debates amongst Mi’gmaq people about managing the new White population and about the preexisting system for house rentals. This article examines how and why policies were established that gave a private sawmill the right to operate on an Indigenous reservation, studies how industrialists sought to claim more territory for their project, and explores the numerous effects of this industrial presence – and that of White worker-settlers – on community land-management practices, social cohesion, and diverse sociopolitical and economic issues in the Indigenous community.

Expériences, savoirs et récits des Pessamiushkueuat sur l’accaparement du Nitassinan : des ruptures à la résurgence

Adèle Clapperton-Richard and Mélanie Bellefleur
This article explores territorial disruption caused by external developments on the Nitassinan (ancestral territory) of Pessamit. It analyzes the experience of territorial dispossession from the point of view of the Pessamiushkueuat (women of Pessamit). The knowledge and stories of Pessamiushkueuat provide an account of the lived experiences of territorial change and offer a novel perspective on the process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization as well as the effects of what we call “land-grab colonialism”.

La pensée colonisatrice au Québec et les sciences coloniales européennes : influences exogènes et circulation de savoirs (1888-1922)

Martin Crevier
This article explores the shape and form of exogenous influences on the development and evolution of the ideology of colonization in Québec from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. It traces how intellectuals interested in colonization drew, through various transnational exchange networks on colonial knowledges and sciences that were concomitantly becoming institutionalized and consolidated across Euro-American colonies and metropoles as the nineteenth century advanced. French thinkers, such as the geographers Onésime Reclus (1837-1916) and Marcel Dubois (1856-1916), as well as the economist Paul Leroy-Beaulieu (1843-1916), were indeed sources of ideas, imaginaries, and conceptual foundations that informed two generations of French Canadians interested in colonization. Quebec thus came to be conceived, notably through comparison, on the same plane as other colonial spaces. As the case of the geographer Émile Miller (1884-1922) demonstrates, these transfers moreover moulded conceptions of the provincial state and of its expected role in the appropriation of an expanding national domain.

« Un intérêt à la liberté de toutes les nations » : la construction de la solidarité anticoloniale au Québec depuis 1977

Miriam Hatabi
Based on three cases of anticolonial solidarity in “Québec” since the 1970s, this article identifies certain mechanisms that facilitated the emergence of political solidarities in this sociopolitical context. The article examines the discursive articulation of shared struggle interests amongst three non-Native militant organizations in solidarity with Native struggles: the Comité d’appui aux nations autochtones of the Ligue des droits et libertés, the Regroupement de solidarité avec les Autochtones and the Take Back Tekanontak group. These shared struggle interests demonstrate that political and anticolonial solidarities in “Québec” are forged not through the prism of national identity, but rather by bypassing or even rejecting this framework.

Bien nommer les lieux, ou comment se sortir du colonialisme implanté dans la pensée québécoise

Caroline Desbiens

Fondements et stratégies de la guerre des idées des think tanks libertariens au Canada

Guillaume Lamy
This article illustrates the unfolding of the war of ideas in which libertarian think-tanks have been engaged in Canada since their founding. It emphasizes the political reasons that led to their creation as well as their practical reasons for operating by producing research intended for the general public with the aim of popularizing the principles of “classical” liberalism in society. This research is also the first to examine the funding structure of these charities and shows the near complete absence of independent revenue for these groups, leading to their extreme dependence on a system of private subsidies maintained by Canadian tax policies. Finally, this article adds a transnational perspective to the Gramscian war of ideas in which these think tanks are engaged in Canada by highlighting their ability to obtain funding from the United States as well as their integration into a transnational family network, the Atlas Network, imagined in the post-war period by important actors of the Mont Pelerin Society.

L’histoire dévoyée. Le révisionnisme et le négationnisme dans les écrits publics d’Adrien Arcand (1929-1967)

Simon Delarosbil
This article examines the mobilization of historical revisionism and holocaust denial in the published work (pamphlets, newspaper articles, interviews) of militant Adrien Arcand from a both diachronous and synchronous perspective. His revisionist positions, already extreme in the interwar period, were further radicalized in response to key historic events after 1945, notably the Nuremburg trials (1945-1946) and the trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961-1962), which led him to adopt a fully negationist position vis-à-vis the Holocaust. Already begun in 1929, Arcand’s revisionist project was informed by his evolving vision of a metahistorical scheme of global Judeo-Communist conspiracy. The Québécois ideologue sought traces of this conspiracy throughout history and in contemporary affairs, seeing in the World Wars and the Quiet Revolution, for example, proof of victorious Jewish plots.

Quelques arpents de sable : les Canadiens (Patriotes, Réformistes et Rouges) face à la colonisation française de l’Algérie en 1830-1855

Édouard Baraton
The way Canadians in the 19th century perceive themselves and the positions they adopt were influenced by an international context. This context is marked by wars of independence or national liberation, revolutions, as well as conquests, colonizations, and imperial rivalries that resonated in Canada. The analysis of Canadian perspectives on Algeria from 1830 to 1855 thus provides a key lens through which to examine the concerns within the Patriote Party, the Reformists, and later the Canadian Rouges, caught between anti-colonialism, nationalism, a civilizing ideal, and evangelization.

David Carpentier, La métropole contre la nation ? La politique montréalaise d’intégration des personnes immigrantes, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009, 209 p.

Matthieu Laflamme-Boucher

Colin M. Coates, Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada: Majesty, Ritual and Rhetoric, Montréal et Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 316 p.

Marie-Eve Ouellet

Sophie-Laurence Lamontagne, L’Habitant. Grandeur et misère d’un personnage méconnu. XVIIe-XXIe siècles, Québec, Septentrion, 2025, 169 p.

Raphaël Bergeron-Gauthier

Stanley B. Ryerson, Capitalisme et confédération, Montréal, M Éditeur, 2024, 541 p.

Guillaume Tremblay-Boily

Ricardo Tranjan, La classe locataire, traduit de l’anglais par Marie-Hélène Cadieux, Montréal, Québec Amérique, 2025, 200 p.

Alexis Lafleur-Paiement

David Vermette, Une race d’étrangers. Le récit méconnu des Franco-Américains, Québec, Septentrion, 2024, 467 p.

Yves Frenette

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Emmanuel Bernier