Colonisation et commerce des produits forestiers: l'exemple du
canton Bagot au Saguenay au milieu du XIXe siècle
Authors
Jean Martin
Abstract
The 1861 census shows that approximately forty small lumber producers operated
in Ragot in this region. These small producers, almost all of them reporting as farmers,
arrived in the Saguenay region around 1840 with the first wave of immigrants, most of
them from the neighbouring parishes of Charlevoix. The aim of this study is to point out
the originality of some of the undertakings launched during the settlement process, with
an emphasis on the forest products "trade" in which these sawyer-farmers may have
engaged.
