Quelques considérations sur les rapports du Canada français avec l'impérialisme britannique au XIXe siècle
Année :
1981
Auteur(e) :
Volume et numéro :
, 15
Collection :
, 1
Revue :
, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines
Pages :
, 55-75
Résumé
Several factors attracted French Canadians to overseas service in the 19th-century
British Empire: a military tradition going back to the French regime; the lure of
adventure; and Quebec's conservative-religious dominant ideology, which encouraged
sympathyjor the imperialist notion of the civilising mission. Seen as champions
of Christianity, protectors of the weak, and guardians of order, colonial empires were
good things. Between the 1850s and the 1880s the British Empire was generally
represented in Quebec not only as protector of Christian civilisation but also as
defender oJ French Canada's distinct nationality, against both American annexationism
and English-Canadian assimilationism. British tolerance was contrasted with
English-Canadian fanaticism, and the empire portrayed as an association o/
nationalities, each contributing in its own jashion to a common cause.
This image changed after the Riel affair, as English-Canadian nationalism pressed or
assimilation oj French Canada, seizing on imperialism as a pretext Jor doing so.
Claims that French Canadians were disloyal, demands that they speak English
because theyNw ere British subjects, insistence that they serve the empire on English
Canada's terms, turned Britain into a symbol of bullying assimilationism and made
French Canadians hostile tojurther imperial service.
British Empire: a military tradition going back to the French regime; the lure of
adventure; and Quebec's conservative-religious dominant ideology, which encouraged
sympathyjor the imperialist notion of the civilising mission. Seen as champions
of Christianity, protectors of the weak, and guardians of order, colonial empires were
good things. Between the 1850s and the 1880s the British Empire was generally
represented in Quebec not only as protector of Christian civilisation but also as
defender oJ French Canada's distinct nationality, against both American annexationism
and English-Canadian assimilationism. British tolerance was contrasted with
English-Canadian fanaticism, and the empire portrayed as an association o/
nationalities, each contributing in its own jashion to a common cause.
This image changed after the Riel affair, as English-Canadian nationalism pressed or
assimilation oj French Canada, seizing on imperialism as a pretext Jor doing so.
Claims that French Canadians were disloyal, demands that they speak English
because theyNw ere British subjects, insistence that they serve the empire on English
Canada's terms, turned Britain into a symbol of bullying assimilationism and made
French Canadians hostile tojurther imperial service.
Thème :
CanadaFrancophones
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