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ARCHIVED - Comics During the "Great Darkness" It has been seen
that until the Industrial Revolution, Quebec society had been
primarily rural, attached to its traditions and to its language,
and controlled by Church authority. By the beginning of the 20th
century, industrialization and urbanization were progressing at
a rapid pace and the Church had grown wary of the propagation of
liberal ideas that threatened its influence. The clergy, in
response, tightened its grip on Quebec society and turned more
and more towards a mythical past -- this period became known as
"la grande noirceur" ("the great darkness"). Between 1919 and
1944, the Quebecois comi