In 2008, Quebec City celebrated the 400^th anniversary of its founding with a series of dazzling and varied events. One of these was a day-long symposium on Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec, Shadows on the Rock (1931). Four American Cather scholars, all members of the Willa Cather Foundation's Board of Governors, were invited to present papers on different aspects of the novel, and their presentations were interspersed with lively discussions and with readings from Cather's novel in both English and French. We are pleased to present the four symposium papers, by John Murphy, Robert Thacker, Ann Romines, and Guy Reynolds. Each of these articles are accessible by clicking the titles of the articles above.