There isn’t much detail in the English article, but to give you an example of how crazy things got, the 25th child of a family had free education… The average was 14 child per family at its peak! French Canadians in New Brunswick went from 15% to 40% of the province’s population over a century even if french immigration was basically non existent while English immigration was…
So Quebec during the Revenge of the cradles?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Revanche_des_berceaux
Wow. History never ceases to amaze me
There isn’t much detail in the English article, but to give you an example of how crazy things got, the 25th child of a family had free education… The average was 14 child per family at its peak! French Canadians in New Brunswick went from 15% to 40% of the province’s population over a century even if french immigration was basically non existent while English immigration was…