Crofters and Habitants: Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881 Volume 2

by J.I. Little

The two groups arrived in Winslow Township in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern state bureaucracy was just developing in Lower Canada (Quebec). Little was therefore able to examine a wealth of material from the departments responsible for crown lands, public works, and education as well as comprehensive data from the registry offices and manuscript census reports. This state-generated material, as well as a rich collection of Catholic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508074
• ISBN13: 9780773508071
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.