[The emigration of French Canadians to the United States, 1790-1940: a conceptual framework and some quantitative guesses].

Abstract

"Using a Faucher-Dales approach to migration phenomena, the authors sketch a plausible scenario of the pattern of migration of French Canadians to the United States [from 1790 to 1940] as regulated by the size of the differential economic rent. Making use of all available data, the authors show that this approach would appear to be vindicated to the extent that the scenario it suggests is compatible with the available estimates of the migration flows." (summary in ENG)