Allan Greer is professor of history and Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2005); The People of New France (1997); The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada (1993); Peasant, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740–1840 (1985), books which have garnered a number of national and international awards.