MCQ Views and Voices

From Burton to Barton, part 3: A Governor, his Secretary, and Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson

October 25, 2021 CASE-MCQ Season 2 Episode 3
MCQ Views and Voices
From Burton to Barton, part 3: A Governor, his Secretary, and Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson
Show Notes

This episode covers more stories from the early days of an English - and protestant! - presence in Trois-Rivières.  Julie Miller and François Roy talk about Frederick Haldimand: who was he and why did he need a bilingual secretary? Who was Conrad Gugy, and who was the enigmatic woman he lived with:  was she a woman of ill-repute, or a wealthy woman of independent mind?