Crofters and Habitants: Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881
ISBN: 9780773562714
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Winslow (Quebec) -- History; Winslow (Quebec) -- Social conditions;

In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian plateau of south-eastern Quebec.


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