I can summarize this whole site in only 4 words: the Meech Lake Accord. Yes, it’s almost that simple. The Meech Lake Accord would have probably been enough to satisfy most of Québec’s demands; at least, those of the majority of Quebeckers, removing any opportunities that ultra-nationalists might have had to gain importan...
From our very nature of our having been colonized by a different colonial power, Québec, even before the original constitution of 1867, was different from the other provinces. In the 1860s, during discussions of Confederation, Québec was hesitant to join ranks with the other 3 provinces (Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Wha...
From the very beginning, the people who initially formed Québec were very different from the people who colonized the rest of Canada. The ancestors of most of the Québecois arrived in Québec from France between 1608 and 1763. My direct paternal ancestor, for example, arrived in 1673, but 90 years later, the flow of French immigran...