From Habitant to Cultivateur : The Rural Quebecer

Woolfson, A. Peter

How the Québécois farmer of the 1980s - confronted with urbanization and industrialization - compares with the agricultural traditions and longheld assumptions about Québec "habitant" ways of life. Based on a case study of farm business, farming, and farm families from La Visitation, outside of Nicolette, Québec. Frequent comparisons made to Horace Miner's 1939 landmark text, "St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish."

1983-spr

en

Journal Article

1980s

Québec

9739-3759

Québec Studies

1

87-95