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The Eastern Townships Between the Two World Wars: Transition and Tragedy.
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The Eastern Townships Between the Two World Wars: Transition and Tragedy.
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| Abstract |
A social, political and economic history outlining the transition the Eastern Townships between the two world wars. The transitional period began with the Southern Canada Power Company when it began to make electricity available to certain areas, which the author explains radically transformed the region like nowhere else in Quebec. “There was a proliferation of factories in Sherbrooke, Granby, Cowansville, and Farnham. They all became industrial centres in the Townships and consequently by end of 1920s, the Townships became the textile centre of Quebec and Canada.” He explains that tensions began to arise between the Francophone laborers and English executives of the textile mills in Drummondville. “Unlike the rest of Canada where a lot of workers tended to view the people exploiting them as capitalists, in Drummondville they are seen as English.”
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2022
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The Brome County Historical Society
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Knowlton, QC
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159p.
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Manson, Jimmy W. The Eastern Townships Between the Two World Wars: Transition and Tragedy. Knowlton, QC: The Brome County Historical Society, 2022.
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