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The story of Where the River Narrows begins with the mysterious figureof Antonio Tremblay, the mythical coureur de bois who traps in the forestssurrounding Chicoutimi, Québec. Of mixed blood himself, he takes two wives: thesaintly Marie-Ange, who gives him two daughters, and Marie Kapesh, hisclandestine "wood wife", whose children remain hidden in the forest.Marie-Ange's younger daughter, the beautiful Marie-Reine, becomes thematriarch of a boisterous, tightly knit family, whose children, grand-children,and great-grandchildren must chart their own way in a changing Québec. Where the River Narrows sweeps effortlessly across the centuries, fromthe French royal court to the founding of Québec City in 1608, from the Spanishflu pandemic of 1918 to the FLQ Crisis. Against this rich panorama, the dailylives of the Tremblays unfold. Marie-Reine's children grow up, marry, havetheir own children who, in turn, spread beyond Québec to a wider world. It isLucie, a child of the -60s facing a troubled marriage, who begins the longjourney back, bringing to life a history she had glimpsed only in schoolbooksand discovering a past peopled by saints and sinners, weighed down by historyand religion. From the beginning, Lucie senses that there are long-buriedsecrets shaping the fortunes of the Tremblays, secrets that draw her into thedark forests of her ancestors. This passionate novel resonates with joie de vivre as the Tremblaysfight and reconcile, mourn and worship, hate and love one another. Ranging fromthe wilderness of eighteenth-century New France to the -60s faux farmhouses ofsuburban Sainte-Foy, Where the River Narrows echoes the many voices andvisions that have shaped a unique part of Canada.… (plus d'informations)
This is a multi-generational story of a Quebec family; it starts with the 1918 flu epidemic and ends in 1973. There are also vignettes of much older history as a major character researches history. I think the novel gives a good picture of Quebec, including early fur trading days and the FLQ crisis as seen from the perspective of a middle-class family. There are a lot of characters and this, in my view, hampered the ability to develop most of them as much I would have liked. But the story is good. ( )
Knappe roman: kolonisatie van Canada door de Fransen verweven met een familiegeschiedenis van vier generaties. Schetst een beeld van de aanvankelijk moeilijke jaren én de verwevenheid/beïnvloeding van het Franse migrantenbestaan door de Indianen. Impressies van het uitgestrekte landschap, de bijtende kou, de ontheemdheid ook binnen de familie. Interessante info over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van Franstalig Canada. ( )
Where The River Narrows is the translation of "Quebec", from the Mi'kmaq language, and this is the first novel of Canadian writer Aimee Laberge. The novel outlines the history of the province of Quebec through generations of the Tremblay family, beginning in the early days of the settlement through until the 1970s with vignettes of the trials and tribulations of the earliest explorers and their royal patrons. The family story begins with Antonio Tremblay, a courier de bois who leaves his family for months at a time to trap and hunt deeper in the wilds of the country, and also to live with his native wife and family. His daughter, Marie-Reine becomes the matriarch of the extended Tremblay family whose fortunes we follow through the political and social evolution of Quebec, those these are just currents that pass and anyone not familiar with the history of Quebec would miss a number of allusions. Marie-Reine is a redoubtable and very likeable figure. The writing is good, the movements back and forth across time and place are handled well, the characters are well-drawn. I thought it meandered a bit towards the end tracing the lives of the, by now, extended Tremblay family, but this is a good story, well-told and worth reading.
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Quebec: "Where the river narrows" in Mi'kmaq
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Waar Nouvelle-France snel een commercieel succes werd, dankzij de winsten die in de pelshandel werden gemaakt, bleef de kolonie van Samuel de Champlain in Québec kwakkelen. Er waren te veel coureurs de bois en niet genoeg honkvast publiek. Terwijl de woudlopers snel geld verdienden, een voorliefde opvatten voor het vrije leven in de bossen, en tedere, zij vluchtige banden smeedden met de vrouwen van de Huronen en de Montagnais, hadden de kolonisten die zich er metterwoon gevestigd hadden, voortdurend te kampen met de Irokezen, de veel te korte zomerseizoenen en de lange, meedogenloze winters die ze in hun primitieve behuizingen moesten zien te doorstaan. Zonder een vrouw om hen te helpen en een nageslacht om voor te zorgen, zagen de kolonisten geen heil in een dergelijk bestaan. Om een en ander te verhelpen werden tussen 1663 en 1673 achthonderd filles du roi, 'dochters van de koning' naar de kolonie gestuurd. Louis XIV trad op als hun symbolische vader en verschafte de jonge vrouwen, die allemaal wees waren dan wel in armoedige omstandigheden opgegroeid, de bruidsschat zonder welke zij niet in het huwelijk konden treden. De koning vervaardigde voorts een verordening uit die de vrijgezellen van Nouvelle-Franse dwong te trouwen en zich te vestigen binnen een periode van vijftien dagen na aankomst van de vrouwen - anders zouden hun handelsrechten en hun vergunningen voor visserij en jacht worden ingetrokken. p 170-171
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The story of Where the River Narrows begins with the mysterious figureof Antonio Tremblay, the mythical coureur de bois who traps in the forestssurrounding Chicoutimi, Québec. Of mixed blood himself, he takes two wives: thesaintly Marie-Ange, who gives him two daughters, and Marie Kapesh, hisclandestine "wood wife", whose children remain hidden in the forest.Marie-Ange's younger daughter, the beautiful Marie-Reine, becomes thematriarch of a boisterous, tightly knit family, whose children, grand-children,and great-grandchildren must chart their own way in a changing Québec. Where the River Narrows sweeps effortlessly across the centuries, fromthe French royal court to the founding of Québec City in 1608, from the Spanishflu pandemic of 1918 to the FLQ Crisis. Against this rich panorama, the dailylives of the Tremblays unfold. Marie-Reine's children grow up, marry, havetheir own children who, in turn, spread beyond Québec to a wider world. It isLucie, a child of the -60s facing a troubled marriage, who begins the longjourney back, bringing to life a history she had glimpsed only in schoolbooksand discovering a past peopled by saints and sinners, weighed down by historyand religion. From the beginning, Lucie senses that there are long-buriedsecrets shaping the fortunes of the Tremblays, secrets that draw her into thedark forests of her ancestors. This passionate novel resonates with joie de vivre as the Tremblaysfight and reconcile, mourn and worship, hate and love one another. Ranging fromthe wilderness of eighteenth-century New France to the -60s faux farmhouses ofsuburban Sainte-Foy, Where the River Narrows echoes the many voices andvisions that have shaped a unique part of Canada.
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