Quebec diaspora
The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies. The mass emigration out of Quebec occurred in the period between 1840 and the Great Depression of the 1930s.[1]
United States
Approximately 900,000 Quebec residents At the initiative of Father Bernard O'Reilley, an Association des Townships was set up in 1848 to promote settlement in the area. In the 1850s, the association purchased lands which it gave to young families of farmers to prevent them from leaving for the United States where it was believed they would ultimately be assimilated.
Certain early American centres of textile manufacturing and other industries attracted significant French-Canadian populations, like Lewiston and other bordering counties in Maine; Fall River, Holyoke, Fitchburg, and Lowell in Massachusetts; Woonsocket in Rhode Island; Manchester in New Hampshire and the bordering counties in Vermont. There was a significant number of French Canadians who moved to the Kankakee, Illinois area from the 1830s through the 1870s, including religious missionaries, establishing communities such as Bourbonnais, St. Anne, St. Georges, Papineau, and L'Erable.[5] There are also sizeable populations of French-Canadian descent in Michigan and Minnesota—who began migrating there when the region was still part of New France.[citation needed]
The Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, details New England's Quebec diaspora which developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Noteworthy among those whose parents settled in the United States are writer Jack Kerouac, baseball player Nap Lajoie, politician Mike Gravel, singers Rudy Vallée and Robert Goulet, Emil Beaulieau, historian Will Durant, and many more.
Ontario
The largest proportion of
The development of mining and forestry resources in the
Canadian West
While a good number of emigrants were from Quebec or Ontario, it is often Franco-Americans who formed the nucleus of the population in several francophone communities of
See also
- Canuck letter
- Diaspora
- French American
- French Canadian
- Little Canada
- The Rise and Fall of English Montreal
Notes
- ^ a b Bélanger, Damien-Claude (23 August 2000). "French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840–1930". Québec History, Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College. Archived from the original on 25 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
- ^ Bélanger, Claude. "Emigration to the United States from Canada and Quebec, 1840–1940". Quebec History. Marianopolis College. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ Bélanger, Claude (23 August 2000). "Rapatriement". Québec History, Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
- ^ "Historical Geography of the Eastern Townships Archived December 22, 2005, at the Wayback Machine", Eastern Township Research Centre of Bishop's University
- ^ "History of Kankakee County", Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
References
- Bélanger, Claude (2001-08-09). "Franco-American History". Québec History, Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
- Doty, C. Stewart. "The Intellectual of the Quebec Diaspora: The Case of Henri d’Arles". in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes, 24 (1989–1990), pp. 61–71.
- Lacroix, Patrick (2021). "Prelude to the "Great Hemorrhage": French Canadians in the United States, 1775-1840". American Review of Canadian Studies. 51 (4): 554-572. S2CID 246287995.
- Roby, Yves (2004). Franco-American of New England. Dreams and Realities. Septentrion. p. 550 pages. ISBN 2-89448-391-0.
- Savard, Pierre; Raymond Breton (1982). The Quebec and Acadian Diaspora in North America. ISBN 0-919045-11-1.