Plural of habitant; French Canadian inhabitants or residents, especially rural farmers.
The plural form of habitant in English, preserving French pluralization conventions. This appears frequently in historical texts about French colonial North America and Quebec society.
Census records from 1700s Quebec listed the habitants as a distinct social class—they were neither nobility nor merchants, but the independent farmers whose taxes funded colonial development!
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