Settlement and Abandonment of Land in the Rouge Valley, Laurentides, Quebec: An Historical Geography
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Settlement and Abandonment of Land in the Rouge Valley, Laurentides, Quebec: An Historical Geography
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| Abstract |
An historical-geographic look at the land and people who settled along the Rouge River, a north bank tributary of the Ottawa River, from 1831 to the mid-1960s. The southern portion of the valley was settled largely by English-speaking people. In the 1880s, Francophones began settling in the northern portion of the valley. The author provides a description of the various colonization schemes which existed in Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to attract settlers to the area,
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Master's Thesis
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McGill University
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Montreal
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1967
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vii-203p.
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en
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Gibson, Pauline Margaret. “Settlement and Abandonment of Land in the Rouge Valley, Laurentides, Quebec: An Historical Geography.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1967. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/2514np56b?locale=en.
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