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Voice of the Vanishing Minority

Robert Sellar and the Huntingdon Gleaner, 1863+1919

by (author) Robert Hill

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 1998
Category
Journalism
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    ISBN
    9780773567252
    Publish Date
    Aug 1998
    List Price
    $110.00

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Description

In his newspaper and his book, The Tragedy of Quebec, Sellar lamented the exodus of Quebec's English-speaking farmers from the Eastern Townships, attributing it to the frenchification of the region. His provocative views were shared by grass-roots supporters in Ontario and the Prairies but were largely dismissed as Anglo-Protestant francophobia and bigotry. Drawing on Sellar's diary, the Gleaner, and a wealth of other original materials, Robert Hill recounts Sellar's one-man crusade for English rights in Quebec, a crusade for which he endured obloquy, legal harassment, physical violence, arson, clerical condemnation, loss of family, and the indifferent support of the people he was championing. Exploring the earliest origins of "English exodus" and the English-speaking minority rights battle in Quebec, Voice of the Vanishing Minority makes for timely reading in light of recent developments in Quebec.

About the author

ROBERT HILL is chairman of the Department of History, Economics, and Political Science at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He teaches Quebec history and is writing a biograhy of Robert Sellar.

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