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National Geographic : 1977 Apr
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Pied Piper of nationalism, poet-singer Gilles Vigneault frolics with youngsters in a snowy field near his birthplace, the fishing village of Natashquan. "My country is not a country, it's the winter," he sings in one of his pensive ballads, expressing the French Canadian's sense of cultural apartness. 448 Anglophones are selling their houses and moving to Ontario. Well-off ones who stay are buddying up to the French. The name of that Frenchifying bishop, by the way, was Frangois-Xavier Ross. Quebec was long thought of as rural, backward, and poor. Outsiders coming to hunt, or catch trout or salmon, might still get that idea as they pass quiet little villages with big stone churches. In the five or six long NationalGeographic,April 1977
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