Quebec

Bill 101 had some key provisions that affected day to day communications of many people in Quebec. The emphasis on the French language was determined to attain some hard goals, some of which were essentially met. Though these hard goals were met bill 101 has many qualitative implications The pathway to Bill 101 is one that started in the 60’s. During this time there was a cultural division in labour, accommodations for elites which were highly Anglophone, selling of resources to English and no…

The Front de Libération du Québec, better known as the FLQ, is one of the most important movements that have existed in Canada. Their motif was for Quebec to gain independence, to do this, they orchestrated several bombings and robberies in the 1960s, eventually leading up to the October Crisis in the late months of 1970. The kidnapping of James Cross and Pierre Laporte lead to the enactment of the War Measures Act. The ways the War Measures Act affected Canadians was drastic, though Pierre…

Champlain went back to be incharge as its governor. By this time he was in terrible shape and his health was lacking him and he stepped down to retire in 1633. Champlain went back to die in Quebec on Christmas Day December 25th,…

He also administered Quebec Act in 1774 to support the Roman Catholic church and to preserve the French Law. He is also the mastermind behind the defense of Canada and in defeating Montgomery and Arnold’s America forces against Quebec City in 1775-1776. With his great deeds and accomplishments, He was given the title Baron of Dorchester and chosen to be Governor in Chief of BNA. Sir Guy Carleton helped shape Canada in many various ways. Advising the passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 which…

Now that a semester has passed, we should return to one of the very first questions of the course: is Québec a distinct society, and if so, how and why did it develop this difference? Several themes persisted throughout our studies that sought to answer these questions, including that of la survivance. This ideologically loaded phrase describing survival by means of French, Catholicism, and a farming vocation related back multiple times to other concepts. With regards to language, the…

and his paternal grandfather 's peccadillo’s and through geography - by proximity to the U.S. Border and its wealthier, land owning ex-Americans. The British great grandfather, Thomas Anthony Willis (b 1796, Windsor, Berkshire, UK) came to Granby, Quebec as a teenager just before the War of 1812 threatened British North America. With clear, strong feelings for England, he joined the Militia for the Township of Granby in March 1813, serving 2 years. As he became a young man he took up farming…

The October Crisis marked an important event in Canadian history in which the tension between Quebec separatists and Canada (particularly the federal government) still carries on today. The FLQ was a group of Quebecois who strongly believed in the separation of Quebec from Canada and the enforcement of a “distinct society”. Because of this rebellious group, they committed many violent crimes and thus they were considered a group of terrorism. The extreme happened in December when they…

groups and its main platform was establishing sovereignty for Quebec from the English-speaking side of Canada. The Parti Quebecois ran in the 1976 election and managed to win with 41% of the vote due to the still-increasing popularity of French nationalism. However, when the new French federal government surveyed the population of Quebec regarding the idea of an independent French state they were shocked to find that 60% of voters in Quebec had no interest in seceding from Canada. The PQ was…

away at the same time. Quebec is already unique as it is for the french they speak is different and more of a variant to that of the French spoken in France. As well it makes the comparison of how to most people that speak French value it just as much as breathing itself. One could also discover that within the source if they were in at anyways deny the right to speak or even use the French language altogether there would be outbreaks of protests and possible Violence, as Quebec has done a…

Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774. The Royal Proclamation was preceded by the Seven Years war from 1756 to 1763 which, in North America, was namely the struggle between France and Britain for control over the colonial lands. The Seven Years War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris and decided the territory of New France was to be turned over to the British. The successes and failures of the Royal Proclamation initiated the conditions of the Quebec Act. It was passed as an…