Born in Quebec City and living in France, Bernard Allaire is a socio-economic historian of European and North American urban and maritime civilizations. He is involved in many historical, archaeological and sociological research projects in connection with European and North-American specialists. He particularly enjoys historical topics which complete the expertise of other historians or archaeologists and also study north-american Indian societies, correspondence networks and history of crafts and sciences. He goes through the archives in public records, libraries and his data bases for governments, local authorities, academics, jurists and private individuals to identify, transcribe and digitalize relevant documents. Author of Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor: les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris 1500-1632 (Pelts, Muff and Beaver hats: the North American furs in Paris 1500-1632), Québec/Paris, Septentrion & PUPS, 1999 (Falardeau award) and Crépuscules ultramontains: marchands italiens et grand commerce à Bordeaux au XVIe siècle (Ultramontane Twilight: Italian merchants and Commerce in XVIth century Bordeaux), Bordeaux PUB, 2008 (Desgraves award); La Rumeur Dorée: Roberval et l'Amérique, Montréal, éd. de La Presse, 2013 and, more recently, a collective work with Maria Fusaro, Richard Blakemore and Tijl Vanneste Law, Labour and Empire, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 . He also writes in reviews, collective publications and gives conferences. The essential of his works is however made up of unpublished and often confidential research reports.
History of the colonial site of Jacques Cartier et J-F de La Rocque de Roberval 1541-1543 near Quebec city.
Detailed Description
Direction of a research project at the archives nationales de France, gathering historical datas and writing reports
Company Description
The commission de la capitale nationale du Québec and the provincial ministry of culture in charge of the archaeological survey and the researches related to the history of these importants colonial ventures
Research concerning the corsair ship Le Prince wrecked on the Coast of South Carolina in the XVIth cent.
Company Description
Research in the French Archives about the itinerary, mate, shape and loading of this ship under the supervision of Prof. Jim Spirek of the South Carolina institute for anthropology and Archaeology.
Researches in Marseille, France for the ERC Project Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition
The anglo-dutch navigation in Mediterranean in the 16th-17th centuries
Research about the last exploration venture of Cavelier de La Salle in America (XVIIe century)
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Researches in the French Archives about the last venture of Cavelier de La Salle en Amérique in connection with the archaeological survey of the ship La Belle by the Texas Historical commission and under the supervision of its director M. Jim Bruseth
find, transcribe, digitalize documents and write several research reports.
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The Texas Historical Commission, Austin, Texas and the Texas A & M University at College Station, Texas, USA
Conception of a Data Base link to the digitalization of the Guyenne Admiralty archives
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Programing and linking the data base of the "Amirauté de Guyenne" to the digital archives. Checking the results before the opening of the internet site.
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This work was done under the supervision of M. Verges director of the Archives départementales de Gironde.
Archival study for the research comity Cirilis and databasing for la Maison des pays ibériques. Research in the archives, writing reports, book publication.
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The CIRILIS project lead to the publication of the book Crepuscules Ultramontains, about the history of the Italian merchant community.
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The studies for CIRILIS were supervised by prof. Sandro Landi and the databasing at La MPI was done under the supervision of prof. J-P Dedieu. Both are research comities part of Univ. of Bordeaux III.
Université Laval, Québec, Canada and ARTAF, London, UK
October 1993
to October 1999
Consultant
London
United Kingdom
Research about the history of the voyages of Martin Frobisher in Northern Canada
Detailed Description
Research, transcription, deciphering and digitalization of French, Spanish and British document relevant to this voyage. Some research were support by a Grant of the Wellcome Institute.
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ARTAF was a UK base research comity in London founded to manage the research on the voyages of Martin Frobisher in the British, French and Spanish archives working under the supervision of the Meta Incognitae Project Steering comity and Prof. Reginald Auger of Université Laval, in Quebec city.
Research in the French notarial records concerning Canadian history, transcriptions and digitalization of documents, writing reports
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Study of the French archives about Nord american history
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These researches were held under the supervision of Prof. Laurier Turgeon director of the CELAT, a research comity of the Lettres faculty of Université Laval in Quebec city.
