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| | The following article is a sumary of my PhD thesis |
 | | Although the Townships are predominantly rural and are in Quebec, their history and contemporary circumstances differ considerable from what might be called, the standard narrative of rural life in Quebec, over the past two-hundred or more years. |
 | | Townships villages were never the settlements of the seigneurie, the rang, the curé, and the subsistence farmer or fisherman, but were historically Protestant, English-speaking and governed locally, more on an American New England style ‘town meeting’ model, rather than a theocracy headed by a priest (Little 1997, 8). |
 | | Today, the Eastern Townships is a bit of an embarrassment to pure laine nationalists who like to think of their homeland as taken by force at the Conquest. |
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