Mad Flight?: The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil

by John Zucchi

On 15 September 1896, nearly a thousand people prepared to board a steamer in the port of Montreal, headed for Santos, Brazil, and on to the coffee plantations of S?o Paulo, while a crowd of a few thousand pleaded with them to stay. Families were split as wives boarded without husbands, or husbands without wives. While many prospective migrants were convinced to get off the boat, close to five hundred people departed for South America. Ultimately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773553592
• ISBN13: 9780773553590
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"