Françoise Noël

 

Selected Publications:

Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years.  McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.

**Winner of the Fred Landon Award, 2009**
for best book on regional history in Ontario published in the last three years.

"Old Home Week Celebrations as Tourism Promotion and Commemoration: North Bay, Ontario, 1925 and 1935." Urban History Review, 37,1(Fall 2008): 35-46.

"North Bay's Old Home Week, 1925 and 1935," 2008.  
http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/frann/OHW%20Exhibit/Index.htm

Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780 to 1870: a view from diaries and family correspondence, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

"'My Dear Eliza': The Letters of Robert Hoyle 1831-1844."  Histoire sociale/Social History, 26, 51(May 1993): 115-130. 

The Christie Seigneuries: Estate Management and Settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 1760-1854.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. 

Competing for Souls:  Missionary Activity and Settlement in the Eastern Townships (1792-1851).  Department of History, University of Sherbrooke, 1988.  (Collection Histoire des Cantons de L'Est).

"La gestion des seigneuries de Gabriel Christie dans la vallée du Richelieu (1760-1845)."  Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 40, (1987): 561-582.

"Seigneurial Survey and Land Granting Policies,"  Canadian Papers in Rural History, edited by Donald H. Akenson.  (Gananoque, Ontario:  Langdale Press, 1986), Vol. V:  150-180.

"Chambly Mills, 1784-1915."  Historical Papers, (1985): 102-116.

Françoise Noël received her BA from the University of Alberta in 1972 and her MA and PhD from McGill University in 1976 and 1985. She is professor of history at Nipissing University since 2004 and has been teaching there since 1988. She was chair of the History Department from 2001 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2008. Her research areas have evolved from settlement in the Eastern Townships and seigneurial adminstration in the Upper Richelieu Valley to family life in nineteenth century Quebec and Ontario and family and community history in Northeastern Ontario. She continues to promote the history of Northeastern Ontario through her research and teaching.