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Language issues have always been subject to debate in Canada. From
the Conquest to the Quiet Revolution to the crisis of Regulation 17
to the various judgments of the Supreme Court, these often virulent
debates have mobilized citizens?deeply concerned about recognition
of their language and their rights?in the street, the media, or the
courts. The state has responded with commissions of inquiry,
legislation and legal action, and even police surveillance of
citizens.
"Speaking Up" captures the complex and fascinating history of the
relationship between language and politics in Canada and Quebec
from 1539 to the present. Nuanced and unbiased yet empathetic, the
book reveals that the language issue has been at the heart of this
country's political life for centuries.
Translated from the multiple-award-winning "Langue et politique au
Canada et au Qu?bec" (Bor?al, 2010).
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date
that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As
the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation
encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of
First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and
the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian.
Reconsidering Confederation brings together Canada's leading
historians to explore how the provinces, territories, and Treaty
areas became the political frameworks we know today. In partnership
with The Confederation Debates, an ongoing crowdsourced,
non-partisan, and non-profit initiative to digitize all of Canada's
founding colonial and federal records, this book breaks new ground
by integrating the treaties between Indigenous peoples and the
Crown into our understanding of Confederation. Rigorously
researched and eminently readable, this book traces the unique
paths that each province and territory took on their journey to
Confederation. It shows the roots of regional and cultural
grievances, as vital and controversial in early debates as they are
today. Reconsidering Confederation tells the sometimes rocky,
complex, and ongoing story of how Canada has become Canada.
In recognition of Canada's sesquicentennial, this two-volume set
brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation
into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the
"classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated
with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also
scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation
project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there
exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes
research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written
in French are translated for the first time for publication in this
collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to
Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the
study of Confederation and provides material that considers the
nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and
communities who have been traditionally excluded from the
literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the
ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several
leading articles that set out different ways to understand the
nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.
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