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Show ta ia V ! : ' -Ves. According to Le Guide i'rancais dps Etuis Unis, Use French Canadians in the United States own 103,Sf?.500 worth cf real estate, and 10,;K of them are ia b id ie - i for themselves. There tra now Ki.!.003 French Canadians in the United Stales, half a million of wh'.m are in Xew England and Xew York. The numb.-r of French Canadians in Cuoa-.ia is 1,700,000, tlio.,'Ti when England acquired Can-ad.-, the;,- only nuv:ilcrol 05,003. a fact v.hi h siHki-.spiy indicates tlie fecundity fecund-ity of tlio rat In ISoston they number num-ber 11.M-), and in virions parts of Xew C:i;rla-.id thee h;:ve ilonrhhinir schools aid c.o eieti- s, r.r tl I hey now talk of es-labli es-labli ,"-,!;.; a college. They have repre-fcoutulin-s in the legislatures of five sto'... cud they have nine newspapers in Nov- England and Xew York. "In pohti.-.i, Sys the authority quoted, 'the majority are republicans, thuug-h a food many are dc-aioerats. They are naturally conservative. They "favor order, discountenance radical views or experiments, and oppose strikes and secret societies. They also strenuouslv oopose divorce." |
