Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894

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Title
Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894
Abstract
By the late nineteenth century, assimilation and emigration were threatening the survival of the Gaelic-speaking Highland Scots community in the Eastern Townships’ Upper St. Francis district. As a resistance to this social crisis, there emerged a network of local newspaper correspondents who recorded community events and the movement of individuals to and from the district, as well as repeated anecdotes and kept up a bantering interaction in print among themselves. The author argues that these local correspondents reflect how a community could adapt the “individualizing” medium of print to preserve some of the functions and characteristics of an oral culture.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 30
Issue
no. 3
Pages
134-155
Date
1995
Language
en
Citation
Little, J. I. “Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 30, no. 3 (1995): 134–155.
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