Summary Of My Manitoba Heritage By Gabrielle Roy

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In the story “My Manitoba Heritage”, writer “Gabrielle Roy” family initially settle in Saskatchewan and then to Alberta, but the street of Deschambault, Manitoba was a place, where 1/3 flavour was found from Quebec and 1/3 from France. Though, writer's childhood was a purest francophone at Manitoba, but doctor, notary and teacher was from Quebec. Regardless of other immigrants of French nationality/language, Italian, Walloon or Flemings, Quebecois culture remains intact with its most distinct originality in writer's heart and that can never be forgotten(Karpinski, p.316).

I agree with the statement that Canada’s policy on multiculturalism fragment the Canadian population into cultural and linguistic factions and thereby creates divisions

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