Education
Laval University.
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Fernand Ouellet
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He taught at Université Laval, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa in 1961-1985, prior to joining the History Department at York University in 1986. His contributions to the historiographical debates over the British Conquest and the 1837 Rebellion have been especially controversial. In particular, he drew attention to the negative role played by women in Quebec society.
More recently, he has accused fellow historians of trying to "normalize" Quebec"s past, so as to provide a stronger justification of sovereignty
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, serving as honorary secretary from 1977 to 1980.
He was also the editor of Histoire Sociale (Social History) from 1971 to 1988. Ouellet is the author of several works on the history of nineteenth-century French Canada including Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760–1850, published 1966, Le Bas-Canada, 1791–1840, and Louis Joseph Papineau, un être divisé, published 1960.
Achievements
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Ouellet has received numerous prizes, awards, and honors, including the Tyrell Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1969, the Governor General"s Award for non-fiction in 1977, the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1977, and others Ouellet served as President of the Canadian Historical Association in 1970, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979.
Politics
Throughout his career, he used techniques imported from the social sciences, such as economics or psychology, to undermine the foundations of Quebec nationalism.
Membership
Royal Society of Canada.
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Nationality
Canada
Awards
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Officer of the Order of Canada the Tyrell Medal; Governor General's Award; Order of Canada
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.