POLS 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Visible Minority, Heritage Language
11 Dec 2017
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Until a generation ago it was common in canada to speak of french and british. Another reason for the eclipse of the older meaning of the term is that it is thought by many to ignore the original pre-european inhabitants of what would become canada. Canada was built on the displacement and marginalization of aboriginal. Canadians and the settlement and development of the land by european immigrants. the languages they established in canada were mainly english and french. with very few exceptions their religion was christian, either roman. Catholic or protestant. for much of canada"s history, they"d be referred to w/o hesitation as the founding nations or charter groups, the founding partners in the. Spokespersons for non-french and non-british groups in canada argued that this image of canada and the policies that were based on it excluded them from the.
