Quebec City

Quebec has a rich history spanning hundreds of years. Their culture, language, and religion are especially significant when considering the geographic cleavages that exist in Canada today. Despite the fact that Canada has managed to exist for 150 years and is considerably decentralized, Quebec has been marginalized and subjected to anglicization and assimilation of their French culture since the Conquest and Confederation, to the Quiet Revolution and to the present day. Through an examination of…

Montreal is a city that has special meeting space that various peoples among different cultures, religious backgrounds, ethnicities and languages can encounter. Specifically, Montreal is a perfect historical city that illustrates Mary Louis Pratt’s concept of a contact zone. The contact zone is where social spaces (i.e. cities) is in contact with two or more cultures that could clash and interact with each other through ideas, identity, class, culture and politics. The historical context can be…

Minister, We are writing this paper to give you some advise your government on the appropriate way to handle the issue of Quebec sovereignty in response of the Parti Quebecois victory in the 1976 Quebec provincial election. The Parti Quebecois believes that Quebec is entitled to its own sovereignty, and favours holding a referendum to raise the issue of Quebec sovereignty. If Quebec votes to separate from Canada, this could greatly damage Canadian national unity and have a detrimental impact…

When people are asked to describe Canada, usually the first thing that comes to mind are words like “polite” or “kind.” People tend to forget the way certain people have been or are treated based only the colour of their skin. Inequalities have existed in Canada persistently and still exist today. Major examples of inequalities in Canadian history is the treatment of First Nations people and the treatment of Chinese-Canadians. These are only a couple of the millions of examples of discrimination…

Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on the 18th of October 1919 in Montreal, Québec, and was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. Before Trudeau became a politician he worked as an assistant professor until he was elected as a new Liberal to the House of Commons (Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 22 Nov 2014). Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada from 20th of April 1968 to 4th of June 1979, and again from March 3 1980 to June 29 1984. Even after his death in 28th of September 2000 he is still known as…

of language, they mind has been changed because of bilingualism society and they respect identity of their own language. From this reason, own can say French language has one of the greatest symbol of identity in Quebec. French language had a major impact on the culture of Quebec. French Canadian express their identity using culture. They want their own culture and different culture from…

The importance of the Algonquian native american tribe in the Eastern Great Lakes Region is essential in understanding the region’s political reasoning, this can be understood in the article The Significance of Algonquian Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1701 by Heidi Bohaker, a professor who resides at University of Toronto . The purpose of this comes from an event that occurred in the summer of 1701, author states “the twelve hundred French residents of Montreal played…

Accord was a set of constitutional amendments designed to persuade Quebec to accept the Canada Act. The accord was proposed by both Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa. The failures of Meech Lake have had vast impacts on conduct of current day politics, as well as describe the interprovincial relationships in Canada. Throughout this paper I will argue that demand for the Distinct Society clause by Quebec had an exclusionary impact on Canada’s aboriginal…

War One which proceeded to Quebec’s new ideas of ‘separation’ created during the Quiet Revolution, and finally the ‘saviour’ of Canadian identity within Quebec and on a whole, Pierre Trudeau and his efforts to create a balanced country. The first topic I will be exploring is the 1917 to 1918 Conscription Crisis that specifically disturbed Quebec and its already dubious identity in Canada. Conscription was instated in 1917 by the federal government and lasted until the end of the war (Canadian…

The French Revolution was a period in history that lasted from 1789 until 1799. The Revolution was inspired by literistic and radical ideals. This time of history helped to change the course of modern history, replacing monarchies with democracies and republics globally. French citizens uprooted the monarchy with their rebellion, creating a new historical event. The French Revolution began because of social inequality, a financial crisis, and it was resolved when Napoleon became part of the…