For those FB friends who are not part of the Canadians for Coexistence here on FB but who are involved in the Quebec elections .. and for those ex-Quebec residents who fled to Ontario etc. .. here is a short history of the colony of New France which was succeeded to Britain with the Treaty of Paris of 1763. New France as of that date was a British colony. Quebec was a British colony according to the Treaty of Paris [1763] The Treaty of Paris was signed on 10 February 1763 by France, Britain and Spain. Three years earlier, Governor Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, Marquis de Vaudreuil, surrendered New France (what is now Quebec, and other French territories in North America) to a British invasion force at Montréal by the Articles of Capitul...ation on 8 September 1760. By the terms of the treaty, Britain obtained the French possessions of Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island), Canada (Quebec), and the Great Lakes Basin. France retained fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Gulf of ST LAWRENCE, acquired the small Gulf islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon as an unfortified fishing station. In accordance with the conditional capitulation of 1760, Britain guaranteed French Canadians limited freedom of worship. Provisions were made for exchange of prisoners; French Canadians were given 18 months to emigrate if they wished; and government archives were preserved. Britain would later lose the southern North American colonies in the American Revolution. The northern colonies would become the modern country of Canada. So QUEBEC IS PART OF CANADA !! The PQ and the separatists are full of BS with their separate Quebec. Indeed they are trying to separate from CANADA to establish themselves an independent country. As such they would have to have their own currency and their own passports. Pauline Marois cannot have a seat on the Bank of Canada .. and Quebec cannot keep the CANADIAN dollar. thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/treaty-of-paris-1763 Here is a little more = a short history of New France in North America and the fact that Quebec became British territory in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. thecanadianencyclopedia/.../new-france/ France yielded its colony to England in the Treaty of Paris (1763). It was the end, or nearly so, of French political power in America — but not of French presence. France left a great legacy to America: the Canadiens. They refused assimilation and affirmed their existence. Protected by their language, religion and institutions, concentrated in a limited geographic area, difficult to penetrate, they developed a way of life, social customs and attitudes of their own. Having become Québécois, they continued to strive to develop their nationality. Read clearly in the entry above >>> how the Quebecois have been at it for 250 years now with the socalled special identity all based on the catholic religion and their language: They refused assimilation and affirmed their existence. Protected by their language, religion and institutions, concentrated in a limited geographic area, difficult to penetrate, they developed a way of life, social customs and attitudes of their own. Having become Québécois, they continued to strive to develop their nationality.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:44:48 +0000
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