Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
Down the St. Lawrence, 150 miles from the doorway metropolis, lay Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...
...Sounds. But there had been a change in the picturesque land. In old Quebec Province, the conservative, independent, devoutly Catholic habitant had developed his own culture on his farms. Its cornerstones were the church and the big family, an economic necessity in the rural economy...
...habitant's world had not been able to keep the world out. World War II brought new factories and industries to Quebec. The tourist, his eye out only for the quaint, would miss them-the huge new power plant on the Saguenay, the new plywood plant at St. Therese, the new plastic plant at Brownsburg...
These new industries have caused a profound change in old Quebec's 17th Century culture. As the world came in, much of the old, fanatical nationalism and isolationism with its distrust of English Canada has gone out. Now, there is a greater feeling of cooperation between French and English Canada than ever before...