The Megantic Outlaw and His Times: Ethnic Tensions in Quebec in the 1880s

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Author/collaborator
Title
The Megantic Outlaw and His Times: Ethnic Tensions in Quebec in the 1880s
Abstract
The author contrasts how Quebec's English-language press and French-language press viewed the trials and tribulations of Donald Morrison (1858-1894), better known as the "Megantic Outlaw." The loss of the Morrison family farm in the Eastern Townships in the late 1880s to a French Canadian triggered a series of events that culminated in Morrison killing Deputy Jack Warren and his being harboured from the police for ten months by the local Scottish community. The author claims that the Morrison story offered both the English-speaking Protestant and French-speaking Catholic populations of Quebec additional material to support their grievances against one another.
Publication
Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada
Volume
Vol. 18
Issue
no. 1
Pages
16-31
Date
1986
Language
en
Citation
Rudin, Ronald. “The Megantic Outlaw and His Times: Ethnic Tensions in Quebec in the 1880s.” Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada Vol. 18, no. 1 (1986): 16–31.
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