Researcher for the CELAT

Overview

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 topics which complete the expertise of other historians or archaeologists and also study north-american Native societies, food history, 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 digitize relevant documents. Author of Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor: les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris (Pelts, Muff and Beaver hats: the North American furs in Paris ), Québec/Paris, Septentrion/PUPS, 1999 (Falardeau award) ; Crépuscules ultramontains: marchands italiens et grand commerce à Bo...