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- Title
Popular Resistance to Legal Authority in the Upper St. Francis District of Quebec: The Megantic Outlaw Affair of 1888-89.
- Authors
Little, J. I.
- Abstract
THIS ESSAY attemps to explain why the Scots Canadians of Québec's upper St. Francis district protected the fugitive, Donald Morrison, against the full force of the law in 1888-89. It rejects the proposition that ethnic tensions were a major factor, arguing instead that Morrison conforms to Eric Hobsbawm's definition of a primitive rebel. 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 lose. The Megantic Outlaw affair therefore represented a final defiant and largely symbolic stand on the part of a tightly-knit rural community succumbing to the forces of industrial capitalism.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); MORRISON, Donald; HOBSBAWM, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012; DISSENTERS; CAPITALISM; COUNTRY life; CANADIANS
- Publication
Labour / Travail, 1994, Vol 33, p97
- ISSN
0700-3862
- Publication type
Article