Voice of the Vanishing Minority: Robert Sellar and the Huntingdon Gleaner, 1863+1919

by Robert Hill

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773517367
• ISBN13: 9780773517363
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"