The novel “30 Acres” focuses on the changes experienced by French-Canadians due to industrialization and the lack of farmland for the next generation’s farmers. The cities and the job opportunities in the factories attracted many people such as Euchariste’s sons Ephrem and Napoleon. Since they knew that they would not inherit their father’s farm, they decided to emigrate to the States and Montreal. Ephrem became a worker in a factory that manufactures lights. Industries, including flour milling, sugar refining, wood processing, iron making, shoemaking, tobacco, and textiles, thrived at the time. The people were attracted by how much more the profit is for industrial jobs over farming. During a couple decades, the population in those areas i
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