Frontier Soldiers of New France Volume 2: Campaign Clothing, Armament, and Equipment of the Colonial Troops in North America (1683-1760) - Kevin Gélinas

Gélinas, Kevin: - Born in Montréal, Québec, in 1971, Kevin Gélinas studied at the Université de Montréal, where he graduated in 1995. This was followed by a Bachelor of Education from the University of Ottawa in 1996. Author of The French Trade Gun in North America 1662-1759. A museum consultant specializing in the military material culture of New France, Kevin has also published numerous articles on French-era colonial trade goods and shoulder weapons. He has also contributed to publications such as La Belle: The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization and has been a guest speaker at numerous events. Kevin currently lives in Trois-Rivières, Québec, where he teaches and is actively continuing his extensive archival research into the history of New France's material culture, voyageurs and the Trois-Rivières region.