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A few days later, the same partisans also raided Fort Cumberland. [28] Some Acadians escaped into the woods and lived with the Mi'kmaq; some bands of partisans fought the British, including a group led by Joseph Broussard, known as "Beausoleil", along the Petitcodiac River of New Brunswick. Some followed the coast northward, facing famine and ...
Quebec nationalism or Québécois nationalism is a feeling and a political doctrine that prioritizes cultural belonging to, the defence of the interests of, and the recognition of the political legitimacy of the Québécois nation, particularly its French Canadian population. It has been a movement and a central issue in Quebec politics since ...
French Canadians (French: Canadiens français), referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada during the 17th and 18th centuries. During the 17th century, French settlers originating mainly from the west and north of France ...
The Acadians (French: Acadiens; European French: [akadjɛ̃], Acadian French: [akad͡zjɛ̃]) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in either the Northern American region of Acadia, where descendants of Acadians ...
Canadian ethnicity. Canadian ethnicity refers to the self-identification of one's ethnic origin or ancestral roots as being Canadian. [note 1][2][3] It was added as a possible response for an ethnic origin in the Canadian census in 1996. The response is attributed to white Canadians who do not identify with their ancestral ethnic origins due to ...
v. t. e. The historiography of Canada deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed, and debated the history of Canada. It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums, monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites.
The Province of Lower Canada (French: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec and the Labrador region of the current Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (until the Labrador region ...
t. e. The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced firstly by its indigenous cultures, and later by European culture and traditions, mostly by the British and French. [1]