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Canada thus won its freedom without rebellion, or without major national heroes. Perhaps it was good (or bad) luck. Perhaps it was more, for after all, character is fate. In the 18th century, as Historian Ramsay Cook points out, English-speaking Canadian settlers had rejected the American Revolution, just as 13 years later, in 1789, French-speaking settlers rejected the French Revolution. As a result, Canada's 1867 charter contained little thought of revolutionary fervor or political ideology. In contrast to the American Declaration of Independence, with its ringing "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada...
...rule. In Canada, the reverse was the case: the Constitution reserved to the Federal Government all powers not specifically granted to the provinces; yet the reality of disunity created a weak central regime from the start. The most threatening aspect of this disunity was the conflict between French-and English-speaking Canadians. In 1838 Lord Durham came from London following a series of minor rebellions and reported back: "I expected to find a conflict between a government and a people. I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state. I found a struggle not of principle...
Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form...
...much to the concern of the St. Mary's faculty. One informal survey showed that 40% of St. Mary's teachers do not now meet Notre Dame standards, presumably would suffer in any merger. But Notre Dame seems so intent on affiliation, says St. Mary's English Instructor Michael Yetman, that "it sounds as if the cow has been sold, and a decision is needed only as to how it should...
...production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened at the Loeb last night is a crude attempt at a play unequaled in ripeness of language and plain good heart in Shakespeare or English. The show is as disasterous as misdirection can make it, which is to say that it is still a fair evening's entertainment...