Voice of the vanishing minority : Robert Sellar and the Huntingdon gleaner, 1863-1919 / Robert Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Robert, 1932-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sellar, Robert, 1841-1919.

Sellar, Robert.

Huntingdon gleaner.

Newspaper editors--Quebec (Province)--Eastern Townships--Biography.

Newspaper editors.

Canada--English-French relations--History.

Canada.

Eastern Townships (Québec)--Biography.

Eastern Townships (Québec).

Physical Description:

xii, 378 p. : ill., facsims., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his newspaper and his book, The Tragedy of Quebec, Sellar lamented the exodus of Quebec's English-speaking farmers from the Eastern Townships, attributing it to the frenchification of the region. His provocative views were shared by grass-roots supporters in Ontario and the Prairies but were largely dismissed as Anglo-Protestant francophobia and bigotry. Drawing on Sellar's diary, the Gleaner, and a wealth of other original materials, Robert Hill recounts Sellar's one-man crusade for English rights in Quebec, a crusade for which he endured obloquy, legal harassment, physical violence, arson, clerical condemnation, loss of family, and the indifferent support of the people he was championing. Exploring the earliest origins of "English exodus" and the English-speaking minority rights battle in Quebec, Voice of the Vanishing Minority makes for timely reading in light of recent developments in Quebec.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

The Journalist and His Field

Confederation and the New Era

The Church, the State, and the Gleaner

Under the National Policy

Fighting the “Rebel Movement”

A Liberal of the Old School

The Tragedy of Quebec

Appendix: Gleaner Songs and Poems

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85511-5

9786612855115

0-7735-6725-9

OCLC:

732600917