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Why'd you need acting like that? (lemm.ee)
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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Quebec during the Revenge of the cradles?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Revanche_des_berceaux

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. History never ceases to amaze me

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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...