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Article: How an Anglo-Irish aristocrat saved Quebec -- and why no one knows about it.(Review)
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- Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
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- January 1, 2001
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Philip Lawson. 1989. The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 192 pages, with index.
WHY REVIEW A BOOK PUBLISHED 12 YEARS AGO? I WILL EXPLAIN. BUT FIRST, LET me tell you what it's about.
When Britain took possession of Canada at the Treaty of Versailles in 1763, it faced an "imperial challenge:" how to integrate into the empire a society fundamentally different from England -- in language, religion, and legal and political institutions. At the time, England was vigorously intolerant of Roman Catholicism or "popery," the religion of its major enemies, France ...