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Originally Posted by Laceoflight
...That and, of course, the fact that Roman Catholics were not particularly reputed for being modest decorators either...  However, I was surprised by the number of churches that were built from 1900 to 1940 in Quebec City. |
Urban population boom. The population in Quebec's rural areas boomed in the 1800s and the early 1900s, and then those people moved massively to seek work in the cities in the first part of the 20th century.