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Robert Sellar et l'histoire du district of Beauharnois
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Robert Sellar et l'histoire du district of Beauharnois
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An examination, for a French-language audience, of the political views and writings of the Scottish-born journalist and local historian Robert Sellar (1841-1919), who in 1888 published "The History of the County of Huntingdon and of the Seigniories of Chateauguay and Beauharnois From Their First Settlement to the Year 1838." He is also the author of "The Tragedy of Quebec: The Expulsion of Its Protestant Farmers" (1907). Both of these books have been re-issued several times since first being published. Sellar, editor of the Huntingdon Gleaner, devoted his journalistic career to the cause of the disappearing rural English-speaking Quebec. A nineteenth-century liberal, Sellar was committed to the separation of church and state. He fought to remove the Catholic Church’s state-sanctioned taxing powers from those parts of Quebec granted in English freehold tenure. He believed that the Catholic Church was encouraging French Canadians to buy out English-speaking Protestant farmers in the townships so that the Church could increase its ability to collect tithes.
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Au fil du temps: Publication de la Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Salaberry
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Vol. 27
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no. 2
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22-37
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2018
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fr
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LaRose, André. “Robert Sellar et l’histoire du district of Beauharnois.” Au fil du temps: Publication de la Société d’histoire et de généalogie de Salaberry Vol. 27, no. 2 (2018): 22–37.
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