Education
Laval University.
Laval University.
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.
Throughout his career, he used techniques imported from the social sciences, such as economics or psychology, to undermine the foundations of Quebec nationalism.
Royal Society of Canada.