Scott Berthelette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Queens University. He researches the history of Indigenous Peoples, the M矇tis, New France, and the Hudsons Bay Company. Scott completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in January 2020. His Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded dissertation is titled "Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and the Contest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1774," and examines how French-Canadian voyageurs and coureurs de bois were instrumental cultural brokers between Indigenous peoples and the French colonial government in the Hudson Bay Watershed. This project will be published as a monograph with McGill-腦瞳憫 Press. Scott is a member of the Manitoba M矇tis Federation, the federally recognized self-government of the M矇tis people of Manitoba.
Publications
- New France and the Hudson Bay Watershed: Transatlantic Networks, Backcountry Specialists, and French Imperial Projects in post-Utrecht North America, 1713-1729. Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 101, No. 01 (2020): 1-26.
- Fr癡res et Enfants du m礙me P癡re: The French Illusion of Empire West of the Great Lakes, 1731-1743. Early American Studies, Vol. 14, No. 01 (2016): 174-198.
- The Making of a Manitoban Hero: Commemorating La V矇rendrye in St. Boniface and Winnipeg 1886-1938. Manitoba History 74 (2014): 15-25.
