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Settlers

Black and white photograph of a woman milking a cow while a man holds the animal by a horn. In the background, a log cabin.

Date : 1927-1928

Credits : BAnQ Rouyn-Noranda, Canadian National fonds. 08Y,P213,P1.

After the arrival of the railway in Abitibi, the provincial government aided by the Catholic clergy encouraged settlement by families. Colonization propagandists, mostly clergymen, crisscrossed Quebec to promote the area and find people willing to settle there.