Title: The History of the County of Huntington and of the Seigniories of Chateaugay and Beauharnois from Their First Settlement to the Year 1838
Description: Social history of the settlement of a rural county in today’s Quebec Canada. Anglo-Irish settlers cleared this area abutting Vermont in the 1820s and 1830s. In 1837-38 the settlers combined into volunteer militia to suppress the Franco-Irish rebellion whose last battles took place in this area.
Places: Cantons de l'Est (Québec), Hemmingford Quebec
Time periods: 1800-1838