Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. TABLES and FIGURES xi
4. FOREWORD xv
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
6. Introduction: The Eastern Townships: A Region and Its World 1
7. Part One. Space and Place: Making the Eastern Townships
8. 1 The Toponymy of the Eastern Townships before the Eastern Townships: A Portrait of Abenaki Toponymic Resilience from the Earliest Times to the End of the French Regime 25
9. 2 “The Security of Our Frontiers”: British Colonization Projects in the Eastern Townships during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 59
10. 3 Agriculture in Transition: Global Crisis and the Eastern Townships’ Identity 81
11. Part Two. Peoples in Motion: Moving Into and Out of Quebec’s Eastern Townships
12. 4 Abenaki Mobility and the Eastern Townships of Ndakina 101
13. 5 Townships Women Go Off to School: Teaching Diplomas, Career Ambitions, and the McGill Normal School, 1857–65 120
14. 6 Going to Someone Else’s War: Border-Crossing Enlistments from the Eastern Townships during the American Civil War 140
15. 7 Transitioning from Southern Honour to Dependency: Jefferson Davis in Montreal and the Eastern Townships, 1867–68 165
16. 8 Immigration in the Eastern Townships of Quebec: Patterns of Regional Settlement and Belonging 191
17. Part Three. Institutions, Local Identities, and Global Connections
18. 9 Community, Identity, and Borderland Schooling in the Eastern Townships and Northern Vermont: Reflections in an Impermeable Era 213
19. 10 “The Latest and Most Important Local and Foreign News”: Producing and Reading the Press in the Eastern Townships (1867–1939) 231
20. 11 “A duty to her Indian citizens”: Bishop’s University and Canada’s “Indian Problem,” 1845–1945 256
21. 12 Fight Nights: The Sherbrooke Athletic Commission and the Boxing World, 1955–66 281
22. 13 Recent Transformations and Dynamics in the Eastern Townships’ Religious Landscape: A Perspective from Sherbrooke 303
23. Part Four. The Eastern Townships as an Imagined Place and a Global Commodity
24. 14 Quebec’s New Regional Fiction and the Eastern Townships: Literary Landscapes of Deindustrialization 323
25. 15 Postcards, Cultural Landscape Analysis, and the Eastern Townships in the Past 125 Years 344
26. 16 Dimensions of Community in the Novels of Louise Penny 368
27. CONTRIBUTORS
28. INDEX 397