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Article: Quebec: populate or perish.
- Article from:
- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
- Author:
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Ever since the `Conquest' in 1759, it has been Quebeckers' supremely cherished goal to maintain a French-speaking society surrounded by the sea of English in North America, as is shown in the devout motto: `Je me souviens'. Faced with the revolutionary movement in the southern thirteen colonies, the British gave the French in the 1774 Quebec Act considerable autonomy to preserve their unique economic and cultural life pattern, with a view to persuading them to stay within the British Empire. De spite this generous provision, the Quebeckers had to struggle hard for survival as an integral unit, beating the constant threat of assimilation.
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