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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I'm proud of the French culture in Quebec, but I also think it belongs within a unified Canada as an example to the rest of the world to show how a widely diversified population can work together to resolve their differences and actually move forward.
The French financial aid of the American Revolutionaries (in order to shaft Britain) almost certainly hastened the demise of the Ancien Regime. I'm working towards a PhD in the development of French-Canadian Nationalism, and I would say that the French in Canada actually got pretty reasonable treatment (relatively speaking) in the years after the Conquest (generally because it benefited the British - much as the French only really helped the Americans for their own benefit). They generally wanted nothing to do with the US in either the Revolution nor the War of 1812 and generally chose to side with the British. Anyhoo, enough of that - your art is superb
From the bits and pieces I put together, I did however get the impression the British allowed the French-Canadians to keep their culture mainly out of convenience, because they wanted to concentrate their forces elsewhere (like the US) instead of having to quell mass civil unrest in Quebec. When I traveled to the Canadian Atlantic provinces, I then found out there was another culture of French speaking Canadians (Acadians), and they weren't quite as lucky and oppressed to a much larger extent than the Quebecois.
At any rate, I think it's a very interesting chapter in Canadian history, where French has managed to survive and thrive for this long. I wish the signs outside included English, especially for all the tourists who don't speak a lick of French, but that's another story
I love Quebec, but yeah, the language laws are a little over-zealous (which makes it interesting). I have a friend that's an Ontarian francophone, who was in a small store somewhere in Quebec and was told off by the store owner for not speaking to a friend that was with her in French...