CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Samuel De Champlain, James Wolfe, Quebec Act
20 Aug 2016
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The concept of the imagined community and the importance of myths and symbols. Important because it creates sense of unity between canadians (sense of canadian identity) The seven years wars french indian war (conquest- british takeover of new france) (acadian deportation resulted in death of many acadians) Painting, statues notion of the myth of unity, myth that french, english and canada participated in the building of canada. Stereotypes and manner of the french and e characters interacted with each other. Central message ; we need f and e to work together to obtain a common objective. English canada (loyalists) (the creation of canadian identity) Government policies; towards fn people (assimilation they tried to assimilate fn people (canadian govermnent )) ; residential schools. How the schools affected the culture of fn people?) Attempts to reconcile between euro-canadian and fn people (t&r commission and apology- steven harpers apology to people who had to attend the residential schools, 80,000 still alive)
