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Article: Robertson Davies.(Canadian author dead at age 82)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1995
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THE Canadians, Robertson Davies once wrote, are "a nation of losers". He believed that the appalling experiences of the early settlers still cast a shadow today. The French colonists who founded "New France" were defeated by the English, and their descendants in Quebec still seek "liberation". Many of Canada's early English-speakers were refugees from America who had supported the losing side in the American Revolution. The numerous Canadians with Scottish blood are largely descendants of survivors of the battle of Culloden, where the English crushed the Scots with customary ferocity.Perhaps not many Canadians would take such a melancholy view of their ...
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