Le déploiement géographique des cercles de fermières au Québec (1915-1949)

Abstract

The territorial expansion of the Quebec «Cercles de fermières» (1915-1949). A simplified vision of the association of the cercles de fermières will show its history forged by the Quebec State. Carrying traditionalist and conservative values, the association would be following a clerical and nationalist path to keep the families on their lands. Studying the geographical expansion of this association sheds another light and another understanding of its history. Its numerous cercles develop along specific regional patterns all over the Québec territory, unequally on the new colonised Northern Territories and in the oldest Central Quebec. Not only do we discover a dynamic specific to this voluntary association, but we can also get to some conclusion on the rurality of some regions and therefore question the concept of rurality and its link to agriculture.