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The Effects of Industrialization–Its Opportunities and Consequences–Upon French-Canadian Society*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Norman W. Taylor
Norman W. Taylor
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Lawrence College
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Societies usually do not define explicitly the criteria of the legitimacy of the penetration of the price-system into different areas, and I suppose that, as social scientists, we should be grateful for this omission, since this is the kind of thing that forms the basis of our livelihood.

Type
The Penetrative Power of the Price System
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1960 , pp. 638 - 647
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1960

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References

1 See Faucher, Albert and Lamontagne, Maurice, “History of Industrial Development” in Essais sur le Québec Contemporain, Jean-Charles, Falardeau (ed.) (Québec: Les Presses Universitaires Laval, 1953)Google Scholar.

2 See, for example, Munro, William Bennett, The Seigniorial System in Canada (New York: Longmans, Green, 1907), pp. 9–10Google Scholar.

3 lbid., p. 172. Also, among others, Parkman, Francis, The Old Régime in Canada (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1897)Google Scholar.

4 Quoted in Wade, Mason, The French-Canadian Outlook. (New York: The Viking Press, 1946), pp. 146–47Google Scholar.

5 Quebec Mercury, 3rd April 1809; Quoted in Creighton, D. G., The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760–1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937), p. 160Google Scholar. Creighton has a fine discussion of the whole episode on pp. 157–62 and passim.

6 Ibid., p. 160.

7 Le Canadien, 22nd November 1806; Creighton, p. 160.

8 Henri Saint-Denis, R. P. in an address published as “French-Canadian Ideals in Education” in French-Canadian Backgrounds (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1941)Google Scholar. Reprinted by permission.

9 Stuart M. Jamieson in his unpublished thesis, “French and English in the Institutional Structure of Montreal” (McGill University, 1938) gives the following comparative figures, which are percentages of the Catholic and Protestant populations of Quebec Province enrolled in primary and secondary schools. No date or source given.

For this purpose “Catholic” and “Protestant” may be taken as virtually synonymous with “French-speaking” and “English-speaking.” Just as in Greece the question “Does he belong to the Orthodox Church?” really means “Is he a Greek?” so in Quebec the profession of the Roman Catholic faith is a mark of “French-Canadianism.” (See Lloyd Warner, W. and Srole, Leo, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945), 159.)Google Scholar

10 See Hughes, Everett C. and McDonald, Margaret L., “French and English in the Economic Structure of Montreal,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, VII (Nov. 1941), 493–505CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 See Jamieson, pp. 103–4, 133.

12 See, for example, Hughes, Everett C., “Industry and the Rural System in Quebec,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, IV (Aug. 1938), 341–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 Capital, ch. XV, sec. 9.

14 See Falardeau, Jean-C., “The Changing Social Structures” in Essais sur le Québec Contemporain. Falardeau's paper offers a number of perceptive insights into this whole question, as does Everett C. Hughes's French Canada in Transition (Chicago University Press, 1943)Google Scholar, which is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in Quebec society.

15 French Canada in Transition, p. 172. Copyright, 1943, University of ChicagoGoogle Scholar.