Fragments of Lost History
2000
50 min
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The yellowed pages of a travel journal, a letter unearthed by chance, photographs recovered from a company's dusty archives: These are but a few of the scattered materials used to reconstruct the fascinating and little known adventure of Revillon Brothers, a Parisian merchant of elegant furs, who came to Canada at the turn of the century to enter into the fur trade. But the adventure comes to an end in 1936 when Revillon's great rival, the Hudson's Bay Company, buys out the French company. Victorious, the Hudson's Bay Company, is the only of the two to be remembered in the …
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The yellowed pages of a travel journal, a letter unearthed by chance, photographs recovered from a company's dusty archives: These are but a few of the scattered materials used to reconstruct the fascinating and little known adventure of Revillon Brothers, a Parisian merchant of elegant furs, who came to Canada at the turn of the century to enter into the fur trade. But the adventure comes to an end in 1936 when Revillon's great rival, the Hudson's Bay Company, buys out the French company. Victorious, the Hudson's Bay Company, is the only of the two to be remembered in the history books. In between the words of the few remaining witnesses to a lost history, in the memories of descendants of employees and in specialists' passion for the fragments recovered, a world long thought vanished is recreated in front of our eyes. In French with English subtitles.
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montage sonoreSteve Munro
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ré-enregistrementSteve MunroTim Roberts
Éducation
Âge 13 à 17 ans
Histoire - Premières explorations canadiennes (1600-1800)
Histoire et éducation à la citoyenneté - Population et peuplement (1608 à nos jours)
Histoire et éducation à la citoyenneté - Pouvoir et pouvoirs (1600 à nos jours)
Études autochtones - Histoire/Politique
En cours d'histoire, nous explorons le commerce de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest et de la Compagnie de la baie d'Hudson. Or, Revillon Frères y est presque absent. Il serait intéressant de comparer les méthodes commerciales des trois compagnies, et de comprendre leurs méthodes mercatiques, leurs politiques d'occupation du territoire et les alliances indispensables conclues avec les premiers occupants. Est-ce qu'il y a un type d'industrie au Canada qui utilise des techniques de domination pour contrôler le territoire? Quelles sont les conséquences de ces choix commerciaux?
