The Lost Code

No Land, No Money

A Canadien

Musée de la civilisation, bibliothèque du Séminaire de Québec.
Raphael, William. « Sans titre » [en tête de chapitre] in : Picturesque Canada : the country as it was and is. Toronto : Belden Bros., c1882. Vol. 1, p. 62. Loc. : 291.7.21

The subdivision of land, speculation by seigneurs, and poor productivity cast a shroud of poverty over the rural population that persisted until the early 1900s. For some, the solution was to migrate to new regions. Unfortunately the land there was less fertile and harder to farm, which did not really improve their lot.