Scott Berthelette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Queen鈥檚 University. He researches the history of Indigenous Peoples, the M茅tis, New France, and the Hudson鈥檚 Bay Company. Scott completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in January 2020. His Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded dissertation is titled "Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and the Contest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1774," and examines how French-Canadian voyageurs and coureurs de bois were instrumental cultural brokers between Indigenous peoples and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay Watershed. This project will be published as a monograph with McGill-成人大片 Press. Scott is a member of the Manitoba M茅tis Federation, the federally recognized self-government of the M茅tis people of Manitoba.
Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire: French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the M茅tis in the Hudson Bay Watershed
Publications
- 鈥淣ew France and the Hudson Bay Watershed: Transatlantic Networks, Backcountry Specialists, and French Imperial Projects in post-Utrecht North America, 1713-1729.鈥 Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 101, No. 01 (2020): 1-26.
- 鈥溾楩r猫res et Enfants du m锚me P猫re鈥: The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731-1743.鈥 Early American Studies, Vol. 14, No. 01 (2016): 174-198.
- 鈥淭he Making of a Manitoban Hero: Commemorating La V茅rendrye in St. Boniface and Winnipeg 1886-1938.鈥 Manitoba History 74 (2014): 15-25.
