453. Metcalfe undoubtedly overestimates the influence of these men, as compared with the church, over the habitant class. "British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government 1839-1854" by J. L. Morison

It has absorbed him with his reserve and sturdy industry, and apparently the Canadian from the cities is also lost in it, too, for his is the leaven that works through the mass slowly and unobtrusively, while the Scot and the habitant of French extraction have given the life of it color and individuality. "Masters of the Wheat-Lands" by Harold Bindloss

The hero of this border warfare is the Canadian habitant, whose farm becomes a fort and whose gun is never out of reach. "The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac" by Charles W. Colby Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton