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Example sentences for: habitants
How can you use “habitants” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A day trip along the St. Lawrence River on Highway 360 north of Québec City will give you a glimpse of village life and the challenging landscape in which the habitants created their farms.
The French army burned its flags and sailed home, followed by most of the merchants and colonial leaders, leaving the habitants to fend for themselves.
Where it’s not forest, city, or the farmland established by the habitants of the St. Lawrence Valley and the Eastern Township Loyalists, it’s water, water everywhere.
But when American revolutionaries invaded Québec in 1775 in the hope of winning the French-Canadians over to their cause, the latter did not rally to the British side until the American soldiers started taking the habitants’ livestock and supplies.
Within ten years, both tenant farmers (habitants) and fur traders (coureurs de bois, literally wood-runners) were colonizing Québec — New France — at the point where the river narrows.