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.


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