The Quebec Federation of Genealogy Societies — the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie — has released the program for its upcoming conference this fall in Quebec City. The conference theme is about migratory patterns of French Canadians in Canada from 1830 to 1930.
Organized by the genealogy society in Quebec City — the Société de généalogie de Québec — which is celebrating its 55th anniversary, the conference will be held September 30 to October 2, 2016. Christiane Barbe, chair and chief executive officer of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec will be the honorary chair.
All presentations will be delivered in French.
The keynote address on Friday will be delivered by Hélène Vézina, professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), who manages the BALSAC project, a database of the population of Quebec since the founding of New France in the 1600s. Created from more than three million vital records, the BALSAC database covers more than five million people over almost four centuries of history. This database is the joint property and responsibility of UQAC, Université Laval, McGill University, and Université de Montréal. (Much of the BALSAC website is available in English.)
Other presentation topics include populating the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region from 1838-1939, how Quebec City became a manufacturing centre from 1850-1930, migration of French Canadians to the prairies 1760-1960, and the 19th-century colonisation of French Canadians in the Eastern Townships.
The conference website and program are available here.
