LEADER 04144nam 2200661 450 001 9910459737803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5724-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442657243 035 $a(CKB)3710000000324290 035 $a(EBL)3296711 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403588 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12510632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403588 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11385530 035 $a(PQKB)11770343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670197 035 $a(CEL)449440 035 $a(OCoLC)903441018 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00916148 035 $a(DE-B1597)479178 035 $a(OCoLC)979751024 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442657243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670197 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256711 035 $a(OCoLC)958564744 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000324290 100 $a20160919e20121997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe French-Canadian idea of Confederation, 1864-1900 /$fA. I. Silver 205 $aSecond edition, with a new epilogue. 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2012. 210 4$d©1997 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-7928-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface to the Second Edition -- $tPreface -- $tI. Introduction -- $tII. Confederation and Quebec -- $tIII. Confederation and Minority Rights -- $tIV. Confederation and the North-West -- $tV. La Question Manitoba-Brunswick -- $tVI. French Canada in the West -- $tVIII. The Riel Affair -- $tIX. Manitoba Schools and The Rise of Bilingualism -- $tX. Conclusions and Conjectures -- $tEpilogue -- $tBibliographical Notes -- $tIndex 330 $aAt Confederation, most French Canadians felt their homeland was Quebec; they supported the new arrangement because it separated Quebec from Ontario, creating an autonomous French-Canadian province loosely associated with the others. Unaware of other French-Canadian groups in British North America, Quebeckers were not concerned with minority rights, but only with the French character and autonomy of their own province.However, political and economic circumstances necessitated the granting of wide linguistic and educational rights to Quebec's Anglo-Protestant minority. Growing bitterness over the prominence of this minority in what was expected to be a French province was amplified by the discovery that French-Catholic minorities were losing their rights in other parts of Canada. Resentment at the fact that Quebec had to grant minority rights, while other provinces did not, intensified French-Quebec nationalism.At the same time, French Quebeckers felt sympathy for their co-religionists and co-nationalists in other provinces and tried to defend them against assimilating pressures. Fighting for the rights of Acadians, Franco-Ontarians, or western Métis eventually led Quebeckers to a new concern for the French fact in other provinces.Professor Silver concludes that by 1900 Quebeckers had become thoroughly committed to French-Canadian rights not just in Quebec but throughout Canada, and had become convinced that the very existence of Confederation was based on such rights.Originally published in 1982, this new edition includes a new preface and conclusion that reflect upon Quebec's continuing struggle to define its place within Canada and the world. 606 $aFrench-Canadians$xAttitudes$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aCanada$xEnglish-French relations 607 $aCanada$xHistory$y1867- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench-Canadians$xAttitudes$xHistory 676 $a971/.004114 700 $aSilver$b A. I.$0967927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459737803321 996 $aThe French-Canadian idea of Confederation, 1864-1900$92198240 997 $aUNINA