{"product_id":"along-a-river-the-first-frenchcanadian-women-9781442612389","title":"Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench-Canadian explorers  traders  and soldiers feature prominently in this countrys storytelling  but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River  award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women  immigrant brides  nuns  tradeswomen  farmers  governors wives  and even smugglers  during the period between the settlement of the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Victorian era. Along a River builds the case that inside the cabins that stretched for miles along the shoreline  most early French-Canadian women retained old fashioned forms of economic production and customary rights over land ownership. Noel demonstrates how this continued even as the world changed around them by comparing their lives to those of their contemporaries in France  England  and New England.Exploring how the daughters and granddaughters of the filles du roi adapted to their terrain  turned their hands to trade  and even acquired surprising influence at the French court  Along a River is an innovative and engagingly written history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666092417077,"sku":"ByrdShop_144261238X","price":101.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781442612389.jpg?v=1782419024","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/along-a-river-the-first-frenchcanadian-women-9781442612389","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}