Primary Source Analysis
To help with this assignment, you may find it useful to think about: how historians select and interpret evidence; how one's world view, or point of view, affects the interpretation of evidence; how these points of view create history; and how historians use primary sources to construct a history of Canada.
Cite Source, title, author of original source or and where you found it (i.e. if in collection cite collection).
Describe content; very briefly describe the source. For example: "I chose a journal entry of a woman living in Acadia in 1756."
Relevance of Source, This is the key part of assignment. Explain the historical significance of the source. How does the source aid in the understanding of the time period. How does it compliment the textbooks coverage of the event, person, or place? Do not report verbatim on what the source says but instead focus on why it is relevant to historians attempting to understand the period.
Here is a guide for what you should cover;
• Who is the author
• Why did he or she write the source?
• Who was the intended audience?
• Are there any unspoken assumptions in the text?
• Is there a detectable world view?
• When was the source created?
• What is the historic context in which the source was written and read?
• What is the relevance of the source (see above for more on this).
The paper should be six pages, dont need cover page, chigago style, times new roman, 12 font, doubled space.
Reading: 'Ordinance disallowing the pretension set up by Jacques Hamelin ... (1722)', in Edicts, Ordinances, Declarations and Decree relative to the Seigniorial Tenure (Quebec: E.R. Frechette, 1852), 85-6.