Canadian and French Relations in the Past 100 years.
Throughout the ages, many colonies of earlier empires have arisen fromtheir colonial status to become their own country. For many of these, such as the United States, French Indochina and many African nations, their was a common culture which served as a base for uniting their population. In Canada however, their were two very different cultures present, the French and the English. These two peoples had originally had many battles to see who would hold dominance over the colony, and now they had to unite if their was any hope of achieving confederation. The French people of lower Canada and the English people of Upper Canada had many differences, and weren't extremely trustworthy of each other. The French Canadians were in a tough spot when the call for confederation came around. They were afraid of losing their culture if they joined the Canadian confederacy, but they also didn't want to get assimilated into the United States. The French Canadian attitudes towards confederation in the eighteen sixty's, can best be seen through the views of the leading French Canadian politicians of the In French Canada around the period of confederacy, their were two main
thought that under the new confederate parliamentary system, French Canada prospering, or becoming one of the most powerful nations in the world.8 Christopher Moore, 1867: How the Fathers Made A Deal. Toronto: The Canadian did not join Canadian Confederation. Confederation in the 1860's was very different throughout the political
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