Marcel
Martel
Marcel Martel is Professor of Canadian History in the Department of History at York University. A specialist in political and intellectual history, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on government policies, particularly in the areas of language planning, moral and social regulation, language rights, and relations between Quebec and French-speaking minority communities. His recent monographs include Entre solitudes et réjouissances : les francophones et les fêtes nationales (1834-1982) , co-edited with Joel Belliveau (Boréal, 2021), and Une brève histoire du vice au Canada depuis 1500 (Presses de l'Université Laval, 2015). He has also written, with Martin Pâquet, Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec. Une synthèse historique (Boréal, 2010).
Joel
Belliveau
Joel Belliveau is Professor Emeritus at Laurentian University, a Researcher in Residence at the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes (CRCCF) at the University of Ottawa, and Senior Researcher with the Éclair-Âges. A specialist in the cultural and political history of French-speaking minority communities in the 19th and 20th centuries, he has also published on the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, the birth of Franco-Ontarian militancy, and the origins of Catalan nationalism. He is the author of Le « moment 1968 » et la réinvention de l’Acadie (Presses de l’Université d'Ottawa, 2014, also published in English in 2019 by UBC Press) and has co-edited three books, including Entre solitudes et réjouissance: Les francophones et les fêtes nationales, 1834-1982 (with Marcel Martel, published by Boréal, 2021).
Gilberto
Fernandes
Gilberto Fernandes is a visiting professor in the Department of History at York University. He is the author of This Pilgrim Nation: The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in North America (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and several articles on the history of the Portuguese diaspora in North America and of Ontario's construction industry. He is also a public, oral and digital historian, curator, community archivist, and documentary filmmaker with several credits including the Portuguese Canadian History Project; Movimento Perpétuo: The Portuguese Diaspora in Canada; and the award-winning City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto. He designed this website and created its digital artwork.
Ariane Brun
del Re
Ariane Brun del Re is a Researcher in Residence at the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes (CRCCF) at the University of Ottawa, and French-language literature archivist at Library and Archives Canada. She is the author of some fifteen articles on Canadian francophone literature published in scholarly journals (Revue de l’Université de Moncton, Francophonies d'Amérique, Tangence, Port Acadie, Voix plurielles) and in several edited collections. Her book Décoder le lecteur: la littérature franco-canadienne et ses publics was a finalist for the Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2022 and the Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2023 in the French-language non-fiction category.
Marc-André
Gagnon
Marc-André Gagnon specializes in the political, social and cultural history of Quebec and French-speaking minority communities in Canada. Holder of a PhD, he teaches at Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier universities. His research focuses on the identity issue in French Canada and the associative movement. He is recognized for his expertise on national holidays and the history of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
Andréanne
Joly
In 2022, while working on a booklet about the role of the media in school crises, Andréanne Joly asked historian Marcel Martel if the anthology of key documents about francophone minority communities, recently mentioned in a conference, had been published. This anthology is now right in front of you. Andréanne regularly delves into it as part of her work as a freelance journalist and writer, which is based on her keen interest in history and her ongoing concern to publish about francophone minority communities. Andréanne writes regularly for Le Voyageur and Francopresse.ca, acts as editor-in-chief for Destination Northern Ontario and is a concept-editor for various tourism organizations and Réseau.Presse.
Michael
Poplyansky
Michael Poplyansky is an Associate professor at La Cité universitaire francophone, University of Regina. His publications include Le Parti acadien et la quête d’un paradis perdu (Septentrion, 2018) and he co-edited two books Paroles et regards de femmes en Acadie (Presses de l'Université Laval, 2020) and La dimension oubliée des années 68. Mobilisations de minorités nationales au Canada et aux États-Unis (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2023).
Eugénie
Tessier
Eugénie Tessier is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Ottawa. She holds a master’s degree in music with a specialization in feminist and gender studies from the same university. Adopting a radical historicist approach and paying specific attention to the interrelated networks of musical and artistic creation, dissemination and reception, her doctoral research project takes a critical look at the ways in which the figure of the artist and artistic practice are conceptualized in francophone minority communities in Canada.
