Popular Resistance to Legal Authority in the Upper St. Francis District of Québec: The Mégantic Outlaw Affair of 1888-89
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Popular Resistance to Legal Authority in the Upper St. Francis District of Québec: The Mégantic Outlaw Affair of 1888-89
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Abstract |
An explanation why the Scots Canadians of the Upper St. Francis district protected the fugitive, Donald Morrison (1858-1894), against the full force of the law in 1888-1889. The author rejects the proposition that ethnic tensions were a major factor in the motivations of the local community, and argues instead that it was a final defiant and largely symbolic stand on the part of a tightly-knit rural community against the forces of industrial capitalism. With the railway undermining the local subsistence-oriented economy and encouraging families to migrate from the district, the Highland community was facing a survival crisis which it would ultimately loose.
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Labour/Le Travail
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Vol. 33
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97-124
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Spring 1994
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en
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Little, J. I. “Popular Resistance to Legal Authority in the Upper St. Francis District of Québec: The Mégantic Outlaw Affair of 1888-89.” Labour/Le Travail Vol. 33 (Spring 1994): 97–124. http://lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/viewFile/4919/5792.
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