Un régionaliste anglais de Québec, Robert Sellar
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Un régionaliste anglais de Québec, Robert Sellar
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| Abstract |
The Scottish-born Robert Sellar (1841-1919) was editor of the Huntingdon, Quebec newspaper The Canadian Gleaner (renamed The Huntingdon Gleaner in 1912) from 1863 to 1919. A staunch believer in the separation of church and state, he railed against Quebec's late nineteenth-century, ultramontane-influenced Roman Catholic Church, which Sellar accused of deliberately squeezing out Protestant farmers from Quebec's rural townships by its promotion of Francophone emigration into these areas along with its parish, school and tithe system. Sellar also accused Quebec Premier Honoré Mercier of plotting to erect a theocratic French Catholic state in the province. Sellar was the author of several books, including "The History of the County of Huntingdon and of the Seigniories of Chateauguay and Beauharnois", and "The Tragedy of Quebec: The Expulsion of Its Protestant Farmers." The author outlines Sellar's journalistic and literary career, and his work in the field of local history.
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Bulletin de recherches historiques
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Vol. 41
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no. 3
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172-174
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Mars 1935
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fr
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Lanctôt, Gustave. “Un régionaliste anglais de Québec, Robert Sellar.” Bulletin de recherches historiques Vol. 41, no. 3 (March 1935): 172–174.
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