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Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894
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Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894
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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.
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Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes
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Vol. 30
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no. 3
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134-155
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Date |
1995
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Language |
en
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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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