Voice of the Vanishing Minority

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...