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Article: The partnership that created Canada: the place of the Loyalists and French Canadians in North American history.
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- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Together the French Canadians and the United Empire Loyalists--the losing peoples of the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution--founded Canada. Given this fact, it cannot be seriously argued that either the French culture or monarchical democracy are un-American activities. It is appropriate that we consider their two achievements in 1984, four hundred and fifty years after Jacques Cartier arrived in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence River and two hundred years after the Loyalists began their permanent settlements in Canada.
By any standards, French Canadians and Loyalists are old Americans and share with the people of the United States a good deal of North ...