Quebec premier elect Pauline Marois had no idea she was target of gunman
Quebec premier elect Pauline Marois had no idea she was target of gunman
There is no word that could describe this situation except "appalling". Just when we already still had all this animosity amongst our own peoples of this nation. I recall back way back in the seventies when I was a kid going to grade school back on Parkville and Langelier. So vivid was the reality that Quebecers really fought hard for the respect and cultural acceptance in Canada.
I would admit. Even as a first generation West Indian born into a new opportunity as what my family called it then, I would remember the stiff discussions at the dinner table about how uncivilized and potentially racist the Quebecers were during the 1976 referendum. After all it was not even a year and 2 months after my birth a mail box blew up downtown Montreal and an electic official was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ aka Front de libération du Québec ..
http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/eras/trudeau/october_crisis.htm
Eventually though through travelling abroad out of the provinces and country, I could definately relate from learning some Canadian history that the Quebecers were treated like third class citzins for many centuries after the discovery of New France. with that of the Catholic church, which kept the morals and the justice of the people at large.. at The Bay...literally.
Reading some of the exploits in a book called the Nègres blancs d'Amérique (1968 Nigghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Niggers_of_America
The British especially after the war of 1812 against their distant Yankee cousins always made historical claim that The French canadians were "patriotic" to the cause. More so for the "elite" French Canadians wihich tells us once again classisim was always an easy sell out..(French Canadians and the Beginning of
the War of 1812: Revisiting the Lachine RiotSEAN MILLS*
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/hssh/article/view/4291/3489
Despite the irony that It was the early settlers of New France along with Jesuits and a multilinguistic Trinidadian, Mathieu De Costa, who was interpreter for the french sailor to the Native tribes. (In short, Mathieu De Costa was an interpreter and translator from an African background in the Atlantic world during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a translator, he was wanted by the French and the Dutch to help in their contacts with the Aboriginal people ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_de_Costa
There is no word that could describe this situation except "appalling". Just when we already still had all this animosity amongst our own peoples of this nation. I recall back way back in the seventies when I was a kid going to grade school back on Parkville and Langelier. So vivid was the reality that Quebecers really fought hard for the respect and cultural acceptance in Canada.
I would admit. Even as a first generation West Indian born into a new opportunity as what my family called it then, I would remember the stiff discussions at the dinner table about how uncivilized and potentially racist the Quebecers were during the 1976 referendum. After all it was not even a year and 2 months after my birth a mail box blew up downtown Montreal and an electic official was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ aka Front de libération du Québec ..
http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/eras/trudeau/october_crisis.htm
Eventually though through travelling abroad out of the provinces and country, I could definately relate from learning some Canadian history that the Quebecers were treated like third class citzins for many centuries after the discovery of New France. with that of the Catholic church, which kept the morals and the justice of the people at large.. at The Bay...literally.
Reading some of the exploits in a book called the Nègres blancs d'Amérique (1968 Nigghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Niggers_of_America
The British especially after the war of 1812 against their distant Yankee cousins always made historical claim that The French canadians were "patriotic" to the cause. More so for the "elite" French Canadians wihich tells us once again classisim was always an easy sell out..(French Canadians and the Beginning of
the War of 1812: Revisiting the Lachine RiotSEAN MILLS*
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/hssh/article/view/4291/3489
Despite the irony that It was the early settlers of New France along with Jesuits and a multilinguistic Trinidadian, Mathieu De Costa, who was interpreter for the french sailor to the Native tribes. (In short, Mathieu De Costa was an interpreter and translator from an African background in the Atlantic world during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a translator, he was wanted by the French and the Dutch to help in their contacts with the Aboriginal people ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_de_Costa
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