Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The land and the people

Collection:: Economics Books

24 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC province, the French-speaking element is gradually gaining ground. In- deed, the French-Canadian population has overflowed into the New England states and forms a large portion of the operatives in the textile, shoe and other manufacturing industries there. The new settlement districts of the province are attracting a predominantly French popula- tion. The Habitant —The rural French Canadian, known as the habitant, has long been famed in song and story sharing honours with the pictu- resque voyageur. But under modern conditions they have both greatly Spinning wheel— Baie St. Paul changed. An influence that has contributed much to modernize the younger generation is the accessibility of the cities by automobile. The spinning-wheel is often removed to the attic and the ‘étoffe du pays’, is seldom seen except in certain districts where the demand for homespun by American tourists has revived interest in the industry. Always a steady, industrious, thrifty home-loving individual, strongly attached to his church and fond of political discussion the habitant is known as a practical farmer. He reads the city and agricultural papers, is a member of a co-operative dairy or cheese factory, wants a rural mail and good roads. Although much of the boisterous enthusiasm of the old-time “Rouges et bleus” has disappeared, the habitant has remained a keen politician and there is yet a weak spot in his heart for a good orator.

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