L’avenir du passé offers the results of an extensive survey on the historical consciousness of young Francophones from Québec and Ontario. The book raises the question of young millennials’ relationship with the past of French Canada, and how they acquire a narrative vision to guide their practical lives as citizens and members of a community of belonging. More than 600 narratives create an original corpus for comparative analysis between groups. The book reveals that participants from both provinces share a common narrative framework of national history and identify with distinctive communities of belonging. 


It also takes the reader to the heart of an extensive reflection on the transmission of national history in the context of Canadian history education. What is the place of studies like this one for educating young citizens? How can schools foster the construction of a more thoughtful historical consciousness and the development of more complex and polythetic narratives, open to the multiple perspectives of our world?


Published in French.