Question

Consider your webtext reading about Québécois immigration. If you were researching this topic, what else would you like to know about the experience of the Québécois immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1870 that might not be covered in this piece?

Answer 1

This text (Mobility Potential and the Quality of Life in Working-Class Lowell, Massachusetts: The French Canadians ca. 1870) focuses on Québécois immigration to Massachusetts. It tells us that many Québécois people decided to move to this region because it provided better opportunities than Québec, as well as the possibility of a slightly easier life.

I would personally like to know more about the culture of the Québécois people, such as how they related to each other, to their partners and children, and whether this was any different from the people of Massachussets. I would also like to know whether most Québécois people succeeded and stayed in Massachussets or whether they went back to Québec.