Montreal’s Château Ramezay is taking advantage of National Aboriginal Day and Father’s Day, on Sunday, June 21, to commemorate the arrival of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, the fathers of some one million people today.
Starting at 12:30 p.m., the first 50 fathers to arrive at the Château Ramezay to attend the talks or visit the temporary exhibition highlighting the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Regiment, will receive a free advance copy of the summer issue of the museum’s journal, Cap-aux-Diamants, devoted to this subject.
To mark National Aboriginal Day, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m., two talks will address French-Iroquois relations and the peace treaties signed at the time. In the 17th century, the Carignan-Salières Regiment was dispatched to New France to deal with the deep tensions between these two groups. This military mission had a major impact on relations and ushered in 20 years of peace.
Jean-François Lozier, curator of the French North America collection at the Candian Museum oh History, will offer a fresh look at the events from 1665 to 1667, from the perspective of Aboriginal alliances. He will provide nuance to the standard narrative of the adventures and misadventures of this famous regiment, asking us to consider the scope of French dependence and the challenges of learning Aboriginal forms of warfare. This rereading of history will also shed new light on the scope of the peace concluded in July 1667 between the Five Nations. This talk will be given in French.
Author and history consultant Darren Bonaparte, of Iroquois origin, will address diplomatic relations, alliances and treaties from an Iroquois perspective. This talk will be given in English.
Both talks will be followed by a bilingual question period.
Details about the day are here.
