ABSTRACT
Montserrat, the southernmost of the Leeward Islands of the West Indies, embraces about 63 square kilometers of mountainous terrain. It had a population of about 12,500 people, of whom one-fifth resided in the capital, Plymouth; the remainder inhabited forty-one villages located mostly along the leeward coast and in the interior. Montserratians were mainly subsistence farmers and migrant laborers in Plymouth. Since the 1960s, many nationals of Canada, England, and the United States had settled in Montserrat, and tourism became a major industry.
