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Article: Crofters and Habitants. Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township: 1848-1881.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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In 1852, two groups of migrants, 35 Protestant families from Lewis in Scotland, out of 2,337 who came to Canada, and 58 Catholic families from older French Canadian parishes south of Quebec city, had recently settled in Winslow township, Megantic county. Both were poor and, indeed, had not been attracted to this area by its promises of wealth. The soil was unusually poor, the growing season short, and the means of communications bad. However, two distinct ethnic communities emerged and, thirty years later, 669 Scots and 1,107 French Canadians lived there.
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