Nicole St-Onge, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Fur Trade Kinscapes: Lapointe, Wisconsin and the rise of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, 1650-1850
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$94,300
Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940)
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$1,385,700
Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940)
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$808,100

All 8 grants and awards

No publications available.

Fur Trade Kinscapes: Lapointe, Wisconsin and the rise of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, 1650-1850

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: St-Onge, Nicole

Keywords: fur trade; Great Lakes history; identity; French Canadian; Anishinaabeg; Metis; Folk Catholicismm; kinscapes; genealogies; social network analysis

$94,300

Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

Keywords: migrations; circulations linguistiques; circulations culturelles; récits; francophones; spatialité; diachronie; macrosocial; microsocial

$1,385,700

Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord (1640-1940)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: migrations; circulations linguistiques; circulations culturelles; récits; francophones; spatialité; diachronie; macrosocial; microsocial

$808,100

They are not like us: the emergence and convergence of Prairie Metis Kinscapes

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Macdougall, Brenda

Keywords: Metis; history; digital humanities; research methods;

$129,174

Nouveaux regards sur l'occupation du continent nord-américain par la population canadienne-française 1760-1914

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Frenette, Yves

Keywords: peuplement; migrations; occupation; territoire; écoumène; histoire; géographie - démographie - Canadiens Français - bases de données

$197,500

The persistence of travel and trade: St. Lawrence Valley French engages and the American fur company, 1818-1840

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: St-Onge, Nicole

Keywords: history; French North America; fur trade history; American fur company; labour history; voyageur history

$82,000

Patterns of genesis: identity, culture, communication and mobility in the emergence of Northwest Metis populations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aboriginal Research

Principal investigators: St-Onge, Nicole

Keywords: ethnogenesis; Aboriginal; Metis; French river world; multiethnic; transgeographic; fur trade; voyageurs;

$223,000

A breed apart: Montréal Iroquois voyageurs in the west, 1792-1830

Co-investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Grabowski, Jan

Keywords: Fur trade; Iroquois; native peoples; voyageurs; migration and ethnicity

$22,480

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor St-Onge, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Fur Trade Kinscapes: Lapointe, Wisconsin and the rise of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed, 1650-1850" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]