In history class, you learn that a lot of Québec's history is dependent on the export of beaver fur. Once beaver hats went out of style in Europe, the colony didn't really matter anymore. It's pretty crazy to think a fashion fad had so much to do with a nation.
It ended up becoming a colony based on the timber trade and a lot of that wood was being used to build ships for the British Navy which were blockading Napoleonic Europe right afterwards (as he mentioned).
The divergence between Canadien and French culture is actually very interesting and worth a deeper dive. A big reason for the colonization of Quebec in the first place was to establish a Catholic stronghold in case religiou wars in France started going the wrong way for the establishment. When Britain conquered New France and established the Province of Quebec, they put a guy named Guy Carleton in charge, who had grown up in Ireland and was sympathetic to the persecution of Catholics. He convinced Britain to allow a great amount of freedoms to Catholics and created alliances with the Church to perpetuate their power in exchange for loyalty. Many Candiens saw France as abandoning them, as Canada had been a royal province of France and not just a colony. Not long thereafter, the Americans invaded during the Revolution, turing many Candiens against the idea of revolution. With the subsequent French revolution and enlightenment ideals, the British-backed Catholic clergy and English speaking aristocracy convinced many that France had not just abandoned Canada, but godliness as a whole. The Church and Catholic identity held immense power in French Canada until the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, which embraced many post-war ideals such as nationalism and decolonisation and sought to remove the yoke of the clergy and English-speaking dominance in Quebec, which lead to the subsequent independence movement. Since the 60s, formerly staunch conservative and isolationist Quebec has now become quuite socialist and nationalist and is more eager to connect with other parts of the Francophonie, especially France.
@@tulipalll lol yeah separate but not together. Quebec nationalism has traditionally been intertwined with left wing movements, though that has been changing recently with the rise of centre/centre-right nationalist parties
Napoleon more or less set the stage for World War I, pretty much writing the book on nationalism. The later Revolutions of 1848 tipped it further in that direction.
As a Guadeloupean (a French Caribbean Island) I would like to see more videos about the colonial empire of France. It would be great if you could make one about theses french Caribbean island and their conflicts (like Haiti, or with the 1st slavery abolition in France during the French Revolution)
I'm glad the French had islands in every ocean, depriving the British of every having monopolized a single one, which is why the Spanish Empire under Felipe II was the biggest of all, but stupid non-free-thiking idiots will count oceans of sand but not oceans.
If all the Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean joined Canada, we'd not only have a warm wet place to go to in winter, we'd also HAVE THE usa SURROUNDED.
Il y a un contemporain de Samuel de Champlain qui a écrit: Lorsque les espagnols conquièrent un territoire ils y construisent un couvents. Lorsque les anglais conquièrent un nouveau territoire ils y construisent un comptoir commercial et lorsque la France acquière un nouveau territoire elle y construit un théâtre.
I have great respect for your work. Condensing very complex historic correlations and processes into very easily understandable, clear, entertaining and funny short videos. That's art work. Thank you.
0:30 it was named the 7 years war because the first 2 years was only a war between the colonies and didn't directly involve France fighting Great Britain. Here in Quebec, that colonial part of the war is taught under the name "the War of the Conquest" and I've seen it called by Americans the "French and Indian War"
Yeah, it was called the French and Indian War where I grew up, and it referred to the whole 9 years, but we also were taught that it was called the Seven Years War in the UK. All a matter of perspective.
Yeah, the European part of the war (also known as Prussia saying "everyone fight me at once!" and winning) actually lasted for 7 years, but it was going on in the colonies for a while before that
@@tylorhobbs8920 Funny because the Nine Years War is normally supposed to be a (kind of) global conflict (the first one ever I believe) in the 17th century, between Louis XIV's France and a coalition of other Europeans. Look it up, there's a wiki page named like that.
@@louis-philippegirard7608 In Europe yes, but it started in 1755 on the American continent. Only war in the colonies was not considered "proper" war at the time.
@@romain2725 So it started in America in 1955 where due to nuclear testing a hole was ripped in the space-time continuum where some British and French musketeers were sucked to so they started their feuding in 1955 giving that as the real starting date of the war?
I’m Québécois, I must say that this video was extremely great with historical accuracy !! Informative. I love your videos so much, keep your hard work !!
You can see General De Gaulle's speech in Quebec in 1967 on UA-cam. For the little anecdote, when he returned to Paris, his government was furious because he had called for separatism in a foreign country. It was the only time in his career as President that he decided to summon his ministers to justify himself. He told them: "You understand, Louis XV abandoned them, I had to fix that". By shouting "Vive le Québec libre", De Gaulle paid Louis XV's debt.
I read that CDG was still miffed that Canada did not take the side of France (and the UK) during the Suez crisis and offered to be a broker instead (peacekeeping troops).
Separatism in Québec only fuels blind nationalism, which in turn only fuels our provincial government attempts at doing the exact opposite of what the rest of the country is doing not because we disagree with them but just because we wanna be different and really where does that leave us today? Worst healthcare in the country, lowest minimum salary in the country, an education system that sabotages itself over the french/english split... Ça me brise le coeur.
And thats not to say its entirely our fault, the english elite tried many times to assimilate french into oblivion and the fact that we're still here and still speak french speaks to our tenacity and explains a lot of our internalised rejection towards the rest of canada. Les irréductibles Gaulois, c'est nous.
Churchill dancing through the field saying, "Close enough" (7 years war lasted 9 actually) and Napoleon chained to an island with a tag saying, "You tried" were the 2 best parts of this video and why I love this channel!!
Je suis Québécois "pure laine" et je dois dire que vous avez très bien compris notre histoire et vous la résumé avec brio malgré le peut de temps que vous vous êtes donné pour y parvenir. Bravo pour votre effort et votre respect dans la manière de traiter l'histoire. Vous êtes resté neutre et c'est toute à votre honneur.
@@Math_0402 C'est erroné ce truc des origines des premières nations parmi les francophones. Ça été démenti par les démographes il y a quelques années, me rappelant très bien de cet article dans le journal Le Devoir. Ce ne serait que de l'ordre de 5% des Québécois qui auraient des gênes des premières nations. Pour la simple et bonne raison que les distances à parcourir étaient trop longues pour la plupart et que c'était plus facile de coucher avec sa voisine. Comme aujourd'hui d'ailleurs.
“By the time they had called at the baker's and climbed to the top of Cap Diamant, the sun, dropping with incredible quickness, had already disappeared. They sat down in the blue twilight to eat their bread and await the turbid afterglow which is peculiar to Quebec in autumn; the slow, rich, prolonged flowing-back of crimson across the sky, after the sun has sunk behind the dark ridges of the west.” ― Willa Cather,
It’s worth noting (if someone hasn’t already in the comments) that after Britain’s conquest of New France, Britain took steps to allow the residents of New France to retain important aspects of their culture, such as their legal system,form of property ownership, and religion. This was enshrined in legislation, and that legislation became part of what the Americans considered the “intolerable acts“, which were one of the factors that led to the American revolution. Thus, Britain’s clever diplomatic moves with respect to the Quebeckers had the unintended effect of fuelling the desire for independence among the residents of the 13 colonies. In other words, the British conquest of Quebec and the subsequent war for independence in the 13 colonies were closely linked. It’s also worth noting that although France never tried to reclaim Quebec, the Americans did. American troops led in part by Benedict Arnold (before his traitorous days) attempted to capture Montreal and Quebec City during the American Revolution. They failed miserably, partly thanks to the reliably brutal Quebec winter.
If I'm not mistaken, it's also because the British were worried that people from Quebec would want to join the American revolution if they were considered "a conquered nation", so allowing more freedom to the Quebec citizens made Quebec fight FOR Britain instead of against them.
Well... They did that after failing to impose common law in 1763 for civil matters. They setup courts using this system, but French-speaking citizens ignored them and referred to the local catholic priests to solve private conflicts. Those priests still used the Paris coutume in resolving matters. On the political front, representatives of the French-speaking land owners put pressure on Britain to come back to that system, so they backtracked and allow for civil law to exist alongside common law for criminal matters from 1774 onward. The next benevolent step taken by Britain towards French-speaking Canadians was the Union Act of 1840. They abolished Lower Canada (Quebec) and merged it with Upper Canada (Ontario), based on the Durham report, with the affirmed goal of assimilating French speakers to solve the "problems" that led to the Patriots rebellion in Canada.
Also, the Indian territory was part of British North America and no settlement was to be allowed there. The 13 colonies had a need for that territory to farm. "Elbow room!" says Daniel Boone.
Worth noting that they only gave back those rights after failing to assimilate the french canadians to try and make them fall in line and not revolt even more.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is also greatly relieved that HM didn't notice they'd been retaken by France. Canada might not have been amused if they'd found out. : ) Husssssh....!
During the Seven Years War, Britain captured both French Canada (later known as Quebec) and its Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe. During negotiations for peace in 1763, Britain gave France the option to either regain its North American colonies East of the Mississippi or regain Guadeloupe. So prosperous was Guadeloupe at the time due to its sugar plantations that, under the later signed 1763 Treaty of Paris, France forfeited its North American colonies in exchange for the return of Guadeloupe. It's rather interesting how at the time, a small Caribbean island was seen as far more important and profitable than a colony that took up nearly a third of the north american continent.
Its not that uncommon though,look at Russia that has a smaller GDP than Italy and its the largest country on Earth,the panama canal or suez canal that made fortunes and so on and so forth. Point is that big doesnt necesarly mean better atleast in economics,i agree though that they should have though more about the vast land and large population that could have helped them later on more than said island.
France didn't see colonies as long term investments, mostly short terms cash. In general, France was more focused on the European continent in the 17th/18th centuries, it wasn't mainly a colonial power like Britain or Spain. France changed completely that stance in the 19th century (probably because of Germany), and colonized hard, so we tend to forgot how little they cared about colonies in the previous centuries.
Correct. That's really what happened. Québec was supposed to be called "La Nouvelle France" during the Seven Years War but the British Empire took it over
@@wertyuiopasd6281 Well, not really that much, and anyway how would it make what I said wrong ? That's off topic. I'm just saying it really wasn't a priority for the state. The kings showed that several times in the 17th and 18th centuries, their priority was Europe, and the cash from lucrative colonies. That's also why they didn't send that many people in their colonies (compared with the British which were massively incited to migrate). That's why despite the fact that France had more than twice the population of Britain, in the colonies the French colonists were totally outnumbered, like 1 to 10 or even less.
Father french canadian, mother english from Ontario. Grew up in Quebec, left in 77 joined Canadian Navy. Moved back in 81, left again in 86, been in BC since. Je suis de sang québécois. 100 % canadien. Thanks good one.
@@yveslorange2689 Okay, and according to you an english speaker is either Brit or American lol? If asked, I'd probably say that I consider myself to be a Franco Québecois first and foremost, even if my cultural reality is bilingual and includes interactions with people from outside of Canada. The fact that I'd probably choose "Franco Québecois" if I had to put a label on my cultural identity (which I'd rather not do) doesn't mean that I have any kind of disrespect or resentment toward English speaking Canadians...Actually, I consider it to be the opposite. I think that growing up with what I'd define as my "cultural identity" made me aware of the importance of being respected, as well as respecting others. People from all over the world watch American TV, but there also are french and english speaking Canadian productions, and there are productions from all over the world that are available in a multitude of countries especially with internet playing such a significant factor in today's world. Tell me, how should I dress differently than Americans or English speaking Canadians...or even brits since I'm a Franco Québecois? Should I really wear a ceinture fléchée lol :p? I'm really not sure I get your motivations here. P.S. Fun fact, my grandmother on my father's side was a Lorange...Hey, we may not agree, but we could actually be distant relatives ;).
There's a famous quote by French philosopher Voltaire that sums up the French elite attitude to Quebec at the time of the war, "Quelques arpents de neige" which translates to "a few acres of snow".
@@hankwilliams150 It's definitly not how the game is named in france since we don't translate brand name or title, but Quebec often translate english name in french and sometimes it's pretty much hilarious.
The bit about WW1 reminds me of this time in high school history class when we were learning about the Quebec conscription crisis (I am a Canadian) and we were having a mock debate about the topic. I was in the English Canadian group and the French group was saying that they shouldn't be conscripted bc they have no attachment to the UK. I then said, "Well, what about your loyalty to France???" The whole class thought the debate was won and it felt pretty epic until the teacher explained that Quebecois aren't loyal to France either. It felt good for a few seconds tho lol.
My arguement wouldive been that quebec should be conscripted because if england and france lost theyd be owned by the ottomans or germans rofl. the other arguement is because france is a neighbor of quebec (theres an island off the cost of canada thats owned by france still u can take a ferry to)
Makes sense - after all, (US) Americans are their own people, and those of European descent hold no loyalty to their various ancestral nations, with nobody questioning why they ever should. Sure, they come over as tourists, but it's only for interest's sake. (They're pretty ignorant, can't point out Europe on the map, and seem surprised it doesn't look like Disneyland. So I guess that's separation for you).
Québec is the only MAJORITY french speaking canadian province, however french is also spoken in New-Brunswick (the only officialy bilingual province of the country) and in Ontario (about 1 million Franco-Ontarians)
@Simon Bolduc ben non, la majorité du monde savent pas qu'ils y a des francophones à l'extérieur du Québec. C'est quand même important, selon moi, un franco-ontarien, de nous mentionner de temps à temps à risque d'être oublié.
In Alberta there are several bilingual towns. I’m from Quebec, Alberta has a lot of french speaking people but its just you don’t often know because they mostly speak english.
@@jonathanlafleche5984 To be fair, I live in Alberta, and have never seen a Francophone here. Not a single one. Hell, I’ve been to Ontario on occasion and still haven’t seen many outside of Ottawa.
@@Darkspace. that’s because Franco-Ontariens are not spread out in the province but packed in some places, like Sudbury, Timmins, Ottawa and others most of which are way north of what people know of Ontario (the Toronto region), so if you don’t go to these particular places you won’t see them.
I had and have quite a few Franco-Albertan friends and acquaintances in Edmonton, Alberta. Also met many more folks with more recent/direct connections to Quebec. I have heard most of these folks express a lot of pride in that identity. I have much respect, and so (I think) do most folks I meet. But I have also encountered shocking disrespect from members of my Anglophone majority. I literally encountered an oil worker who almost exactly said it was weird that Quebecers wouldn't just "speak white"; and that he was entitled to everyone speaking English to him. It seems all minorities attract frightful bigotry :(
Been from this area as well. I like how you highlight the fact that this part of North America was not offering the same level of luxuriously goods compared to the caribbean colonies. It's a aspect never mention in the teaching of Québec and Canada, beyond been a conquered land we are also an abandon one by the French.
Well it sure came to bite them in the ass later. Although IMO if they had taken back Quebec, in historical perspective they were likely also thinking that Americans make bad neighbours, and 10, 20, 50 years down the line they would be caught in constant territorial encroachments from US settlers, territorial disputes, or even full blown war. One which would be super expensive, have little gain, and little to no chance of winning. Projecting power across the globe is hard enough today, let alone 200 years ago when it took 2 months to cross the Atlantic and French North America had a colonial population of 250,000ish across a continent.
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Unfortunately James Bisonette would face deep resistance from Montreal which still holds strong ties with Canada for business, including strong contributors like the pastry section.
As always an excellant video. Short, brilliantly explained with nice dry humor. Perfection as always. Literally got my BS in History because I love the topic and videos like this are so facinating to learn from. Keep it up!
I also forgot to mention something called the "German girls", which were essentially women that had slept with Germans and had German children and so were treated absolutely horribly when the war was over as they were seen as Nazi collaborators
How do you deal with Frances constant criticism of the Quebec accent? Also do Parisians really complain that it’s as bad or worse than the Jamaican accent or is that just a English Canada myth?
@@petergould9174 Actually, French people and most of the French speaking part of Europe love the accent, every single french person I've talked to told me they loved the accent. Parisians have some difficulty to understand certain words but they will find it funny :D I've never heard of Parisians complaining about the French Canadian accent
@@petergould9174 French and Canadian here The accent from Québec is quite special on it's own, really distinct, yet absolutely understandable. Source of a lot friendly fun and joke, but nothing mean. It is just différent. Thurthermore, people from Paris are quite often assholes, almost all French agree on that (and it is rare we agree on something)
@@lamevegetation572 Bruh i see people all the time in the comments under video cracking up at the Quebec accent. "Putain je comprends rien MDR", "Mais c'est trop mignon votre accent" They'll do anything but engage with the actual content. To them the QC accent is some funny anomaly not to be taken seriously (including what's actually being said).
Shorter answer: a) France was broke and bankrupt after paying for their intervention in the American revolution (which led to the calling of the Estates General to solve the French King's bankruptcy crisis. Turned out the 3rd estate decided to declare a revolution instead!) And b) When the French revolution started, it tore down the Church. It not only confiscated all of its properties, it made all Priests employees of the state. They then went on to found the "Cult of Reason" and worked to destroyed the Church. Quebec was heavily Catholic. Indeed, the Protestant British not only tolerated the Church and Catholicism, but allied with the Church and encouraged the French Quebec to embrace their Catholic culture. So seeing their beloved Catholic Church and culture be destroyed in France, they had no wish to rejoin a post- revolution France. But many: France was always too broke to reconquer it.
Also catholicism explains why they didn't join the american in their revolution, you'd think that a newly conquered people would jump at the opportunity to join a secessionist movement against their conqueror but it was either stay with the british who gave them a lot of concessions regarding their religion (catholicism) or join the american who were pretty extremist in their views regarding religion and were pretty hostile to catholicism in general.
@@ecurewitz I laughed so hard lol. It’s amazing how a Patreon donator of a UA-cam channel focused on history can have an impact significant enough for us to joke about it.
The ending bit reminded of how Spain and Mexico also see each other as cousins but not being that close. Despite this I have seen Spanish people online try to compare Spanish and Mexican relations to the US and UK and Im like nahhhh that's stretching it 😅
@@declannewton2556 yeah but it's not like they're best buddies watching each other's backs or anything. Spain would rather hang out with France, Italy, and Portugal
No love lost for the Portuguese in Brazil either. But even though the Portuguese are not very fond of Brazilian immigrants, to put it lightly, I was quite shocked to see how influential Brazilian pop culture is in Portugal when I visited Porto
As a Québecois our french is actually derived from an old French used in the 17th century because of our isolation from the fench culture in France and our stubbornness to not wanting to learn English. So there is actually a lot of difference between French Canadian and metropolitan French. Some Examples of different pronunciations (metropolitan French is right, french Canadian is left) : Me : Moi - Moué Car : voiture - char Boyfriend: petit copin - chum Also, the letter a is pronounced differently and many sentences are also. So much that french Canadian movies have metropolitan french subtitles!
The head of the French department in our English high school in Montreal (1960s) denied there was any difference between Quebec French and European French. I have always wondered why he maintained this obvious absurdity. They taught us European French - which is why I never understood the "natives."
@@floxy20 the french itself is 100% the same. Accent/slang is different. Kinda like London english vs Newyork english for exemple. Same but very diffrent.
Especially happy to read virtually no Quebec-bashing comments below. It is quite ubiquitous whenever the topic of Canadian-French Culture/Heritage is raised. Great work on the vid ! And thanks to an intellectually, curiously insatiable audience that can keep this corner of the internet clean.
Still, there's some comments on full french. Considering this video is in English and has majority English speaker (either native or not), those commentaries was felt a bit off. Me myself is not English speaker or in Anglo region in anyway, and seeing that just give the express of "exclusivity", and exiled themselves to fellow viewers.
Great video, also the french revolution contributed to distancing the two, because french canadians (as they were called then) condemned it and were loyal to the church.
Just an info for americans i think: the 7 years war did in fact last 7 years but there were already some conflicts in north america between french and english settlers before oh and excellent video
Why is this information for Americans? The whole damn war kicked off when English colonists (soon to be Americans; George Washington was one of them) fought the French in what is now Pennsylvania and Ohio.
@@timmccarthy872 because in america they think it lasted 9 years. But north america was really not the most important theatre. But the actual conflict started in 1756. The 2 main reasons for conflict were the austro prussian rivalry in silesia and the franco british rivalries in the caribbean and india. The " french and indian war" was a secondary front that would not have huge impacts in the short term as Québec was a very unimportant colony of the french
that's because the seven years war happened 2 years after the start of the French and Indian war and since it ended the same time as the former it is considered just one big conflict.
Great introductory treatment. Good to stress the modern sense of difference from France. That said, Britain did not take New France in order to make the 13 colonies free to expand further westward. In fact, subsequent to the capture of New France, the British enacted a policy specifically prohibiting further Westward expansion.
I think it was either sarcasm, or he was alluding to the fact that the war started because the Americans didn't like the French forts in the Ohio valley because they were blocking expansion westward.
@@dinkster1729 That doesn't contradict anything I said? The Americans were blocked by the French before the war, and it wasn't until after the war that the British colonies were prohibited from expanding westward (although many did anyways)
When France gave up New France instead of the colonies in the Caribbean to the UK, there was a joke in France at the time that said the British traded sugar for snow.
@@DouchebagDex i was refering at the fact that places like Canada, Austria or Egypt where in mayority whortless desserts that the British have because prestige, and that India was the most valuable land in the empire
*Newfoundland in 1867:* "No, we don't want to join Canada because there are too many French-speaking Catholics in Quebec." *Quebec in 1949 after Newfoundland joins Canada:* "Yeah, we would like to leave now..."
The French in Kingston Ontario definitely don't feel like they are French-Canadians. My room-mate in Montreal was raised in Paris and was French. She thought, I think, that the Quebecois were provincial. I went to a play put on by U d'M students once and she said to me "What was it about? La Conquete or Le Grand Dérangement?" Like those 2 themes were all that French-Canada would make a play about. She was interested in history, too, but studied psychology instead to be ready to earn a living.
Trust me, buddy, the feeling is mutual. Your roads are sooooo sooooo much nicer. But then you get to Ottawa and realize that Ottavians have a driving IQ of about -150. Then we get to Toronto and we feel right at home with everyone driving like posessed retards but with skills.
As an Anglophone Quebecer, driving to Ontario feels like you're in a completely different country, yet so does driving to the East End of Montreal and beyond.
Great video. With the US so economically dominant it's easy to forget how recent that was. The US was slow to embrace industrialism as a big part of the enlightenment ideal was a gentleman farmer, close to nature. Thomas Jefferson made a point of advising against this as he thought it would corrupt them. Unlike the Spanish colonies that pumped out Gold and Silver, there were very unprofitable producing fur, tobacco and not much else.
There were a lot of attempts to build Franco-Quebecois connections in the '60s. This led to, among other projects, a joint Peugeot-Renault assembly plant.
Its quite pleasant to see history channels covering our oh so often forgotten province , thank you for this video! You might be interested in the independance movement , my father used to tell me that the referendum was very close , it might be a good video idea for you
It was extremely close. I remembering watching it as a kid in western Canada and seeing the two sides marching down the street toward each other from their headquarters. Looked like Montreal was about to be engulfed in urban war.
Your province is not forgotten! Plenty of University-educated Brazilians would love to migrate to Quebec. You should open Québécois French language schools in Brazil; there are only Alliance Française units teaching the Parisien standard, unfortunately. Glory to Quebec!
@@Seisachtheia What a joke! My mother who must been what? in her 70s then went down to Montreal from Kingston with a friend just as old originally from Hollland to demonstrate because Brian Tobin put out the call. Free bus ride (184 miles). Mommy and her friend Nelly weren't going to be engulfed in any civil war. Their demonstration was heavily guarded as well. A bunch of us Francophiles went down to our City Hall in Kingston for a bit of a demonstration in support of Canada. "My Canada includes Quebec." was the slogan then. Our Francophone trustees and superintendent gave a short speech. That referendum proved nothing. That's why there's a Clarity Act now.
@@no_more_spamplease5121 You can learn Quebecois French from You Tube and la Banque de Terminologie. An International French is pretty accepted in Quebec. Nobody expects you to speak French like a lumber jack or a fisherman or a construction worker. Tabernac.
I've always been a bit confused in Canadian history by the Acadian French and the French Quebecois, why the Acadians were expelled in the 1700's to the U.S. What is the basic difference between the two groups plus why is there antagonism or hard feelings still today between some Quebecois and the Acadians.
@@michaelverbakel7632 I’m less sure about modern relations but quebec was free expulsion because the french still had it during the 7 years war and therefore the expulsion couldnt occur there, acadie or modern day maritimes was under british control after 1713 treaty of Utrecht and so the british and acadians had a tense relationship for several decades until 1755. Acadians could actually farm the land so the british tolerated them until they could properly settle the land, however that could only be done with the settlement of the port city of halifax in the 1740s with the french indian war happening shortly thereafter. Then the british started the expulsion so that new british settlers could take over instead because of the active war. However after the war the british were relatively less hostile and allowed many acadians to settle in mostly modern NB as far as i understand
@@michaelverbakel7632 The Acadians were expelled because the British wanted their farm land and they wanted to resettle it with English-speaking Protestants like my ancestors on my Father's Mother's side. The Acadians said they were neutral, but they weren't that neutral because they were French-speaking and Roman Catholic like France at the time. The French still controlled Louisbourg in Cape Breton Island, too, so they weren't that far away.
2:09 - I think the joke here is that in French, there are two words for "You": "Tu" and "Vous". Tu is considered informal, vous is considered formal; it's a bit like the difference between "Mr. Doe" and "John" but in a pronoun version. In France, vous and tu are used in their respective sense, and it's considered rude to refer to someone as "Tu" unless you're in an informal setting, but in Quebec they use the word "Tu" much more frequently and in more general scenarios. Basically, the Quebecois guy on the left is just saying "Hello to you" the way he would say it to anyone, but the French guys on the right think he's being disrespectful because he used the wrong word for "You"
No. The joke is that “Bonjour à tu” is syntactically wrong. You can say “bonjour à vous” or “bonjour à toi”. Imagine you go to a restaurant, and the waiter tells you: “Hello at yourself !” You understand him, but it’s wrong.
@@vincemarenger7122 You are correct about it being syntactically wrong, but I don't think that was the joke. If anything, I think it was just a minor mistake on the creator's part. I believe the joke he was trying to convey was the cultural difference between "Tu" and "Vous" because it makes more sense in the context of the point. It's a dialectical difference between the two cultures, which is what he was discussing. The tu/toi thing is a syntax error which neither French nor Québecois would consider correct.
"Bonjour à tu" is wrong (it should be «Bonjour à toi»). But one notable distinction between the French spoken in Québec versus France, is that in Québec a colloquial way to phrase a question is to add "tu" after the verb in an otherwise normally formed proposition. For example, we might say "Tu veux-tu aller au parc?" (Would you like to go to the park?). This is not standard French, as we should formulate the question by inverting the verb and pronoun: "Veux-tu aller au parc?". It's actually from an older dialect of French, in which questions were formed with "ti". But people from France often find it funny to hear this "wrong" or "archaic" formulation, especially in the plural form: "Vous avez-tu fait bon voyage?" (Did you have a nice trip?)
"A few acres of snow" is taught in Québec history classes, and I think that disparaging comment is fundamental in Québec-France relations. It displays such utter contempt and dismissiveness. Which is further compounded by the rest of France's history with the Americas: they never tried to regain Québec, they did however fight to hold on to various other islands and southern territories, they sat indifferent during times of persecution, and they never displayed great interest in Québec affairs, aside from the De Gaules comment which was greatly criticized back home. To further excasberate the divide, there is the cultural divide. The French often affectionally call Québec their "little cousin". They often view the accent and regionalisms as quaint. And overall tend to have a very patronizing and belittling attitude towards Québec. In Québec, the French tend to be viewed less as cousins, but more like that annoying old aunt that lacks manners and is always pinching your cheek saying how cute you are. I'd say animosity is rather rare, but it explains what would otherwise be an anomalous lack of a re-unification movement. I don't think I have ever heard someone sincerely arguing that Québec should reunify with France. Besides, France always sounds like such a mess, even the French complain about France all the time, and a ton of people emigrate from France to live in Québec every year, and Québec universities are very popular with French students. Centuries of seperation also does a lot to cleave a people apart. The people from Québec didn't live European history during all those years. They didn't live through the destruction of their lands during the world wars. They didn't live with the threat of invasions for well over a century. And before then, the bloody revolutions, religious persecutions, the napoleonic wars. They also were never part of the Republic(s). Québec grew under British rule. It is a parliamentary monarchy, and we have our lieutenant-governor under Canada's governor-general. We do have a civil code, but also greatly use English common law. Québec spent most of these years as a very catholic people, while in France the Roman Catholic church lost a lot of sway a very long time ago. Even linguistically, Québec still uses a lot of words, meanings, and pronounciations that the French eventually stopped using. Both have a very different approach to the feminization of titles, and various other minor linguistic rules. The Québécois can be very proud of their French heritage, but pretty much none of them feel any significant connection with France in a more modern way. We are now very different people.
I wouldn't say "contempt and dismissiveness". More like, yeah we literally segmented in different people, and why the heck would you want to spend precious ressoucres, fighting against the arguable top world power nonetheless, at a time when you are broke, torn by revolutions and enemies at your doors, and there are easier and more profitable targets elsewhere? Historical context is, imho, not enough brought up here on the French side, like no mention of what's happening in France aside that they were broke after the american independance war? No wonder it looks like people just sailed away to eat cake at home... But reality was different. Also the way Britain and France handled the new world were quite different. While Britain sent people and settlers massively and tended to claim and take at the expense of the natives, France had a more conservative approach and didn't sent expeditions as much, resulting in magnitudes smaller populations actually moving to the new world, and a more cooperative approach with the natives. Even Voltaire's "A few acres of snow" needs context, starting with what he meant by that, and what other things he said it with.
Britain didn't want rebellions. Plus, unlike say indigenous African languages. The British saw a value in the French language. A large amount of British monarchs could speak French for example, including the current one.
@@walsh9080 They initially tried pretty hard to assimilate us, but around the time of the American revolution, they significantly reduced their efforts for fear of us rebelling in the same way the US did, so they gave us some more freedoms.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Also, high fertility French Canadians (be it québécois or not) population grew impressively until the Quiet Revolution (1960s). Just so you get the amplor - there were about 10 000 Acadiens left at the start of the 19th century in Canada. A century later, there were around 140 000. This was mostly due to the high frequency and early age of marriage. If the Great Hemorrhage didn't happen, the population of Québec would be at least 16 million rn. Hard to turn a majority into a minority by immigration if they're shitting out childs.
Pain au chocolat or P'tit pain is accepted. Chocolatine is used in parts of southern France, and they are like the cathares: HERETICS. The war has been continuing just like the religious wars from back then.
You adequately summarized the latter third of the class I had last year with Alain Laberge on the Seven Years War period, the Conquest war and its impact on New France, over here at Laval University in Quebec City. Well done. Slight correction - I'll leave out historical details, since this is a communications and vulgarization channel. Dates however are important, and yours are wrong. Quebec City fell in 1759, Montreal (and thus the entire colony) in 1760. New France was under British military rule for three years, up to 1763. You're three years away. You could argue the creation of the province of Quebec marks the "official" annexation of Quebec, but it was already under total British military rule since 1760! If you're interested, I can go in-depth as to my criticism of this video's content, but overall I quite liked it.
@@algonquin91 Yeah, French Canadians outside of Quebec are often neglected, by media, history and governments alike. This unfortunately is not a new situation. There's a sizeable population of francophones in Ontario that goes unnoticed in the rest of the world. In their own province, however, they are very well-known and not very well-liked by the state.
@@marcantoinechateauvert You are from Ontario? The federal Liberals are afraid of what might happen in Quebec if Ontario got too nasty toward the Francophones in Ontario.
It might be worth mentioning that the last time Quebec was under the control of France, France had a King. When the French Revolution happened, France really wasn't the same country anymore. This was a key point in the french of France and the french of Quebec becoming more like cousins than brothers, as the colonists still had loyalty to a Monarchy that had helped them settle, instead of a president who really didn't care about them at all.
As a Quebecer i can say that the Quebec French language is constantly evolving, The Quebec accent is the old French that France used in the 17th century and after this the french of France changed a lot, but in Quebec we kept the same accent and it was anglicized a little bit between the 18th and 19th century, then it was frenchified again between the 20th and 21th century. That's why even if it's the same language as France, due to many modifications through the past centuries it's now a totally different French. But at the end, we still have the same blood in our veins, i am my self a direct descendant of the commander Guillaume Richard "Dit Lafleur" who was killed in Montreal during the war.
Nah. The Cajuns could talk to the French just fine in WWII. Parisians are just defensive about their language as French really is the language of Paris.
I'm an American whose Quebecois ancestry is "pure laine" to the point we don't deny our metis ancestors, either. We wouldn't bloody be here otherwise, filles de Roi or not. This video was fantastic. Note: Quebec's settlers used the name Canada first. When the provinces that gained independence from the UK wanted a name, they ripped it off from the Quebecois. Par for the course, really. Quebec proposes, Canada steals (passes the puck to Ontario, he shoots, he SCORES!).
French Canadian grandfather was born....in New Hampshire. Quebec'ers were and are all through New England, but in school in the USA it's pretty much ignored.
There actually was still a large population of loyalists before and during the American Revolution that helped out the British army during the war. But when Britian lost many either surged and stayed with the Union or fleed to British controlled Canada.
@@emericdion but he said the respectful "quebecois" as kay-beck-oa, so he should have used the respectful kay-beck given qweebek has recently gained a noticeable pejorative undertone.
@@Game_Hero If the English prononciation is viewed as pejorative that's definitely something not known to most people outside of Quebec for the vast majority of people it's like saying "tomato" versus "tohmahto". I myself was unaware that pronouncing Quebec with an English accent was now pejorative there was certainly no offense intended by it.
@@Seisachtheia If it's not known, that's great, gives me the chance to make it known then! If you want a point of reference from a local, It has given me, for instance, the same vibe as "jap" to describe japanese people. Of course, I wouldn't blame people to not know about it, given how it is mostly anglophone Canadians who get to talk about us on the world stage, not actual Quebecois.
@@Game_Hero With respect, I think that's an entirely self afflicted comparison. Few English speaking Canadians (and I live in an area with some significant hostility toward Quebec) view pronouncing the name a particular way as a sleight. In fact, it is often considered better to pronounce it with an English accent given the degree to which people who aren't fluent in French can be ostracized for getting it wrong. If you're English pronounce it the English way because it's more offensive to pronounce it the French way, most people would view it as "putting on airs". The term "Jap" on the other hand is explicitly meant to be racially derogatory and crafted that way. It is interesting though to hear that there are people who view it entirely the opposite way.
You should definitely check out the historic speech that De Gaulle gave from the balcony of Montreal's city hall in 1967! You'll find it right here on UA-cam. It's not very long, but very powerful. Most Québécois cannot listen to it without getting teary-eyed.
I doubt that. How many Quebecois are separatists today? Not many. Back then, a lot of people entertained the idea because they wanted French to not be dominated by English. They are still working on that though.
@@dinkster1729 The independence sentiment is coming back up in popularity lately. The last poll puts it at 38% in favour of leaving Canada: about the same number as just before the 1995 referendum, which ended-up at basically 50-50.
I love the dead-pan humor that sometimes exploits the silliness of life/events (0:29): "...accepted defeat in the Seven-years war--named so because it lasted for nine years." LOL!
Merci, History matters. You'll probably get lots of hate in the comments for even mentioning that quebecois do exist and are actually a real people. Usually when i see a video about quebec pop up in my feed i'm always a bit anxious and i know it's gonna be condescending and/or plain hateful. But you stayed neutral and informative, thank you. And to my susprise, people in the comments are not openly calling for our murder or deportation to france like they used to all do 5 years ago. So thats a small but important step i guess.💓
Hello! Brazilians have nothing against Québécois. Indeed, you are all very welcome in our land. We speak a sister Romance language, Brazilian Portuguese, another distinct variation developed in the Americas. Salut!
In history class, you learn that a lot of Québec's history is dependent on the export of beaver fur. Once beaver hats went out of style in Europe, the colony didn't really matter anymore. It's pretty crazy to think a fashion fad had so much to do with a nation.
It ended up becoming a colony based on the timber trade and a lot of that wood was being used to build ships for the British Navy which were blockading Napoleonic Europe right afterwards (as he mentioned).
Indeed
What about the export of Celine Dion and Xavier leFlamme?
Like the tulips in Netherland 😅
To this day, all we still talk about is fur and beavers.
Along these lines, maybe you could do a video on "Why does St Pierre and Miquelon exist and why is it still French?" Great work as always!
Access to the fisheries of the Grand Banks.
I third this
Probably Britain forgot that island existed
@@Jhqwulw They invaded it like 3 times
Why it exists is easy. Because there's this thing called islands
(This joke but far more refined and I'm all for it)
"Dear France, bruh..." Made me laugh so much
The divergence between Canadien and French culture is actually very interesting and worth a deeper dive. A big reason for the colonization of Quebec in the first place was to establish a Catholic stronghold in case religiou wars in France started going the wrong way for the establishment. When Britain conquered New France and established the Province of Quebec, they put a guy named Guy Carleton in charge, who had grown up in Ireland and was sympathetic to the persecution of Catholics. He convinced Britain to allow a great amount of freedoms to Catholics and created alliances with the Church to perpetuate their power in exchange for loyalty. Many Candiens saw France as abandoning them, as Canada had been a royal province of France and not just a colony. Not long thereafter, the Americans invaded during the Revolution, turing many Candiens against the idea of revolution. With the subsequent French revolution and enlightenment ideals, the British-backed Catholic clergy and English speaking aristocracy convinced many that France had not just abandoned Canada, but godliness as a whole. The Church and Catholic identity held immense power in French Canada until the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, which embraced many post-war ideals such as nationalism and decolonisation and sought to remove the yoke of the clergy and English-speaking dominance in Quebec, which lead to the subsequent independence movement. Since the 60s, formerly staunch conservative and isolationist Quebec has now become quuite socialist and nationalist and is more eager to connect with other parts of the Francophonie, especially France.
"Socialist and nationalist" 👀
@@tulipalll Interesting choice of words lol
@@tulipalll Social Democracy would be a more accurate term
@@tulipalll lol yeah separate but not together. Quebec nationalism has traditionally been intertwined with left wing movements, though that has been changing recently with the rise of centre/centre-right nationalist parties
*Canadian
"There was plenty of war to be had."
I love this guy's script writing.
During the Napoleoning of Europe. 🤩
Napoleon more or less set the stage for World War I, pretty much writing the book on nationalism. The later Revolutions of 1848 tipped it further in that direction.
_"Some stuff happened and it led to the creation of the USA."_ 😂
@@krisstarring Nothing wrong with a spot of nationalism.
One of the better ones out there.
As a Guadeloupean (a French Caribbean Island) I would like to see more videos about the colonial empire of France. It would be great if you could make one about theses french Caribbean island and their conflicts (like Haiti, or with the 1st slavery abolition in France during the French Revolution)
I'm glad the French had islands in every ocean, depriving the British of every having monopolized a single one, which is why the Spanish Empire under Felipe II was the biggest of all, but stupid non-free-thiking idiots will count oceans of sand but not oceans.
If all the Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean joined Canada, we'd not only have a warm wet place to go to in winter, we'd also HAVE THE usa SURROUNDED.
Il y a un contemporain de Samuel de Champlain qui a écrit: Lorsque les espagnols conquièrent un territoire ils y construisent un couvents. Lorsque les anglais conquièrent un nouveau territoire ils y construisent un comptoir commercial et lorsque la France acquière un nouveau territoire elle y construit un théâtre.
@@louisliu5638 what about those living in the islands of the carribean
This channel has a subtle yet excellent sense of humour, as well as having a unique video style. Keep up the good work!
British humour stays undefeated.
I absolutely love this guy's channel, he is a huge inspiration for me
I love this channel!
"Too much time has passed and France has missed their chance."
This man is spitting bars.
Did not they sell it to the Ferengi ?
@@GPski a good business man can smell profits in the air
@@GPski Not yet
Anglo-saxons trying not to get Québec to leave are absolutely pathetic.
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I have great respect for your work. Condensing very complex historic correlations and processes into very easily understandable, clear, entertaining and funny short videos. That's art work. Thank you.
0:30 it was named the 7 years war because the first 2 years was only a war between the colonies and didn't directly involve France fighting Great Britain. Here in Quebec, that colonial part of the war is taught under the name "the War of the Conquest" and I've seen it called by Americans the "French and Indian War"
Grew up in Ontario, and my teacher taught us about the Seven Years War, but he called it the Nine Years War.
Yeah, it was called the French and Indian War where I grew up, and it referred to the whole 9 years, but we also were taught that it was called the Seven Years War in the UK. All a matter of perspective.
Yeah, the European part of the war (also known as Prussia saying "everyone fight me at once!" and winning) actually lasted for 7 years, but it was going on in the colonies for a while before that
@@tylorhobbs8920 Funny because the Nine Years War is normally supposed to be a (kind of) global conflict (the first one ever I believe) in the 17th century, between Louis XIV's France and a coalition of other Europeans. Look it up, there's a wiki page named like that.
yep we’re basically taught that the French and Indian war and the 7 years war are completely different
"Named so because it [the Seven Year's War] lasted for nine years"
This channel always makes me laugh
Always great getting one of these within the first minute of a video 😂
Isn't it 1756-1763 tho?
@@louis-philippegirard7608 In Europe yes, but it started in 1755 on the American continent. Only war in the colonies was not considered "proper" war at the time.
@@romain2725 So it started in America in 1955 where due to nuclear testing a hole was ripped in the space-time continuum where some British and French musketeers were sucked to so they started their feuding in 1955 giving that as the real starting date of the war?
@@SirAntoniousBlock Typo, sorry. Edited my post.
As a Québécois myself this short historical video is pretty well done ! Merci de faire connaître mon peuple et ma nation à nos amis les anglophones :D
C’est vraiment cool de voir du contenu anglophone qui parle de nous!
I’m Québécois, I must say that this video was extremely great with historical accuracy !! Informative. I love your videos so much, keep your hard work !!
I do animated videos as well. Please give my videos a chance. I bet you will like it 🙌
How is quebec independence movement now has it died down?
@@aryanchauhan510 not dead but not as strong as it used to be. Polls usualy show around 30% in favor of independence.
@@pierre-oliviercote7112 Do you think it would have happened if the referendum had been won?
@@pogliot338 We might never know, it didn't go too well for Catalonia recently.
You can see General De Gaulle's speech in Quebec in 1967 on UA-cam. For the little anecdote, when he returned to Paris, his government was furious because he had called for separatism in a foreign country. It was the only time in his career as President that he decided to summon his ministers to justify himself.
He told them: "You understand, Louis XV abandoned them, I had to fix that".
By shouting "Vive le Québec libre", De Gaulle paid Louis XV's debt.
I read that CDG was still miffed that Canada did not take the side of France (and the UK) during the Suez crisis and offered to be a broker instead (peacekeeping troops).
Separatism in Québec only fuels blind nationalism, which in turn only fuels our provincial government attempts at doing the exact opposite of what the rest of the country is doing not because we disagree with them but just because we wanna be different and really where does that leave us today?
Worst healthcare in the country, lowest minimum salary in the country, an education system that sabotages itself over the french/english split...
Ça me brise le coeur.
And thats not to say its entirely our fault, the english elite tried many times to assimilate french into oblivion and the fact that we're still here and still speak french speaks to our tenacity and explains a lot of our internalised rejection towards the rest of canada.
Les irréductibles Gaulois, c'est nous.
And then De Gaulle pushed down Breton nationalism and Separatism... so you know, there's that
@@email5023 I didn't know that. He must have been out of touch - Eisenhower was truly enraged by this last gasp of colonial adventurism.
Churchill dancing through the field saying, "Close enough" (7 years war lasted 9 actually) and Napoleon chained to an island with a tag saying, "You tried" were the 2 best parts of this video and why I love this channel!!
Je suis Québécois "pure laine" et je dois dire que vous avez très bien compris notre histoire et vous la résumé avec brio malgré le peut de temps que vous vous êtes donné pour y parvenir. Bravo pour votre effort et votre respect dans la manière de traiter l'histoire. Vous êtes resté neutre et c'est toute à votre honneur.
Salutations de France 👋🏻
Merci pour votre commentaire
@@lucagireud7539 Salutation Cousin ;)
@@Math_0402 tg
@@Math_0402 C'est erroné ce truc des origines des premières nations parmi les francophones. Ça été démenti par les démographes il y a quelques années, me rappelant très bien de cet article dans le journal Le Devoir. Ce ne serait que de l'ordre de 5% des Québécois qui auraient des gênes des premières nations. Pour la simple et bonne raison que les distances à parcourir étaient trop longues pour la plupart et que c'était plus facile de coucher avec sa voisine. Comme aujourd'hui d'ailleurs.
“By the time they had called at the baker's and climbed to the top of Cap Diamant, the sun, dropping with incredible quickness, had already disappeared. They sat down in the blue twilight to eat their bread and await the turbid afterglow which is peculiar to Quebec in autumn; the slow, rich, prolonged flowing-back of crimson across the sky, after the sun has sunk behind the dark ridges of the west.”
― Willa Cather,
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Which work of hers is them from, do you know?
@@benmaharaj6854 Shadow on the Rock, I think.
It’s worth noting (if someone hasn’t already in the comments) that after Britain’s conquest of New France, Britain took steps to allow the residents of New France to retain important aspects of their culture, such as their legal system,form of property ownership, and religion. This was enshrined in legislation, and that legislation became part of what the Americans considered the “intolerable acts“, which were one of the factors that led to the American revolution. Thus, Britain’s clever diplomatic moves with respect to the Quebeckers had the unintended effect of fuelling the desire for independence among the residents of the 13 colonies. In other words, the British conquest of Quebec and the subsequent war for independence in the 13 colonies were closely linked.
It’s also worth noting that although France never tried to reclaim Quebec, the Americans did. American troops led in part by Benedict Arnold (before his traitorous days) attempted to capture Montreal and Quebec City during the American Revolution. They failed miserably, partly thanks to the reliably brutal Quebec winter.
If I'm not mistaken, it's also because the British were worried that people from Quebec would want to join the American revolution if they were considered "a conquered nation", so allowing more freedom to the Quebec citizens made Quebec fight FOR Britain instead of against them.
Well... They did that after failing to impose common law in 1763 for civil matters. They setup courts using this system, but French-speaking citizens ignored them and referred to the local catholic priests to solve private conflicts. Those priests still used the Paris coutume in resolving matters. On the political front, representatives of the French-speaking land owners put pressure on Britain to come back to that system, so they backtracked and allow for civil law to exist alongside common law for criminal matters from 1774 onward. The next benevolent step taken by Britain towards French-speaking Canadians was the Union Act of 1840. They abolished Lower Canada (Quebec) and merged it with Upper Canada (Ontario), based on the Durham report, with the affirmed goal of assimilating French speakers to solve the "problems" that led to the Patriots rebellion in Canada.
Also, the Indian territory was part of British North America and no settlement was to be allowed there. The 13 colonies had a need for that territory to farm. "Elbow room!" says Daniel Boone.
Also, Québec is the only walled city in North America. I forget when the city was fortified.
Worth noting that they only gave back those rights after failing to assimilate the french canadians to try and make them fall in line and not revolt even more.
Any day is a good day when HM uploads.
You're goddamn right
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is also greatly relieved that HM didn't notice they'd been retaken by France. Canada might not have been amused if they'd found out. : )
Husssssh....!
I read HM as "His Majesty" which honestly seems fitting.
During the Seven Years War, Britain captured both French Canada (later known as Quebec) and its Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe. During negotiations for peace in 1763, Britain gave France the option to either regain its North American colonies East of the Mississippi or regain Guadeloupe. So prosperous was Guadeloupe at the time due to its sugar plantations that, under the later signed 1763 Treaty of Paris, France forfeited its North American colonies in exchange for the return of Guadeloupe. It's rather interesting how at the time, a small Caribbean island was seen as far more important and profitable than a colony that took up nearly a third of the north american continent.
Its not that uncommon though,look at Russia that has a smaller GDP than Italy and its the largest country on Earth,the panama canal or suez canal that made fortunes and so on and so forth.
Point is that big doesnt necesarly mean better atleast in economics,i agree though that they should have though more about the vast land and large population that could have helped them later on more than said island.
France didn't see colonies as long term investments, mostly short terms cash. In general, France was more focused on the European continent in the 17th/18th centuries, it wasn't mainly a colonial power like Britain or Spain. France changed completely that stance in the 19th century (probably because of Germany), and colonized hard, so we tend to forgot how little they cared about colonies in the previous centuries.
Correct. That's really what happened.
Québec was supposed to be called "La Nouvelle France" during the Seven Years War but the British Empire took it over
@@xenotypos That's wrong.
France owned 2/3 of America for over a century.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 Well, not really that much, and anyway how would it make what I said wrong ? That's off topic. I'm just saying it really wasn't a priority for the state. The kings showed that several times in the 17th and 18th centuries, their priority was Europe, and the cash from lucrative colonies. That's also why they didn't send that many people in their colonies (compared with the British which were massively incited to migrate). That's why despite the fact that France had more than twice the population of Britain, in the colonies the French colonists were totally outnumbered, like 1 to 10 or even less.
Father french canadian, mother english from Ontario. Grew up in Quebec, left in 77 joined Canadian Navy. Moved back in 81, left again in 86, been in BC since. Je suis de sang québécois. 100 % canadien. Thanks good one.
Ch'préfère la version française d'O Canada, a mon avis, elle sonne pus belle.
english canadian are American the speak american not british english the look yankee the dress like american watch american TV
@@yveslorange2689 Okay, and according to you an english speaker is either Brit or American lol? If asked, I'd probably say that I consider myself to be a Franco Québecois first and foremost, even if my cultural reality is bilingual and includes interactions with people from outside of Canada. The fact that I'd probably choose "Franco Québecois" if I had to put a label on my cultural identity (which I'd rather not do) doesn't mean that I have any kind of disrespect or resentment toward English speaking Canadians...Actually, I consider it to be the opposite. I think that growing up with what I'd define as my "cultural identity" made me aware of the importance of being respected, as well as respecting others. People from all over the world watch American TV, but there also are french and english speaking Canadian productions, and there are productions from all over the world that are available in a multitude of countries especially with internet playing such a significant factor in today's world. Tell me, how should I dress differently than Americans or English speaking Canadians...or even brits since I'm a Franco Québecois? Should I really wear a ceinture fléchée lol :p? I'm really not sure I get your motivations here.
P.S. Fun fact, my grandmother on my father's side was a Lorange...Hey, we may not agree, but we could actually be distant relatives ;).
There's a famous quote by French philosopher Voltaire that sums up the French elite attitude to Quebec at the time of the war,
"Quelques arpents de neige" which translates to "a few acres of snow".
Its that same elitism that got France where they are today: diverse and dead?
And did you know the French translation for the game "Trivisl Pursuit{ is "quelques arpents de pièges" or " a few acres of traps".
Voltaire was an id-iot.
He was a leftist and serving the powerful.
Other French elites were not all thinking like him btw.
Especially the population.
@@hankwilliams150 I've never seen that game being called that, it's called "Trivial Pursuit" in France aswell.
@@hankwilliams150 It's definitly not how the game is named in france since we don't translate brand name or title, but Quebec often translate english name in french and sometimes it's pretty much hilarious.
The bit about WW1 reminds me of this time in high school history class when we were learning about the Quebec conscription crisis (I am a Canadian) and we were having a mock debate about the topic. I was in the English Canadian group and the French group was saying that they shouldn't be conscripted bc they have no attachment to the UK. I then said, "Well, what about your loyalty to France???" The whole class thought the debate was won and it felt pretty epic until the teacher explained that Quebecois aren't loyal to France either.
It felt good for a few seconds tho lol.
Basically: why be loyal to a country that sold you off and never tought twice about it since?
My arguement wouldive been that quebec should be conscripted because if england and france lost theyd be owned by the ottomans or germans rofl. the other arguement is because france is a neighbor of quebec (theres an island off the cost of canada thats owned by france still u can take a ferry to)
As the Russians say,
I understood nothing, but it was very interesting
Thats the sheer arrogance of the French. They are loyal to no one, not even themselves.
Makes sense - after all, (US) Americans are their own people, and those of European descent hold no loyalty to their various ancestral nations, with nobody questioning why they ever should. Sure, they come over as tourists, but it's only for interest's sake.
(They're pretty ignorant, can't point out Europe on the map, and seem surprised it doesn't look like Disneyland. So I guess that's separation for you).
As always, excellent work! I hope educators on both sides of the Atlantic are using your videos in class.
We can only assume that James Bisonate, Kelly MoneyMaker, and Jordan Longly would know the answer.
Fr*nch 🤮
What about boogily woogily?
@@pabcu2507 No, he belongs to my Patreon for my History channel. Don’t try to steal him smh.
You’d think but…no.
Spinning three plates gang rise up
Québec is the only MAJORITY french speaking canadian province, however french is also spoken in New-Brunswick (the only officialy bilingual province of the country) and in Ontario (about 1 million Franco-Ontarians)
@Simon Bolduc ben non, la majorité du monde savent pas qu'ils y a des francophones à l'extérieur du Québec. C'est quand même important, selon moi, un franco-ontarien, de nous mentionner de temps à temps à risque d'être oublié.
In Alberta there are several bilingual towns. I’m from Quebec, Alberta has a lot of french speaking people but its just you don’t often know because they mostly speak english.
@@jonathanlafleche5984 To be fair, I live in Alberta, and have never seen a Francophone here. Not a single one. Hell, I’ve been to Ontario on occasion and still haven’t seen many outside of Ottawa.
@@Darkspace. that’s because Franco-Ontariens are not spread out in the province but packed in some places, like Sudbury, Timmins, Ottawa and others most of which are way north of what people know of Ontario (the Toronto region), so if you don’t go to these particular places you won’t see them.
I had and have quite a few Franco-Albertan friends and acquaintances in Edmonton, Alberta. Also met many more folks with more recent/direct connections to Quebec. I have heard most of these folks express a lot of pride in that identity. I have much respect, and so (I think) do most folks I meet.
But I have also encountered shocking disrespect from members of my Anglophone majority. I literally encountered an oil worker who almost exactly said it was weird that Quebecers wouldn't just "speak white"; and that he was entitled to everyone speaking English to him. It seems all minorities attract frightful bigotry :(
Always love it when you talk about Canada. You should do a video on the war of 1812!
James Bisonette should've bought Quebec, to give it back to France.
Had to be done, you are welcome
given his name, he could actually possess quebec heritage
I think Kelly Money Maker should be participated
@lmgpro long time supported of this channel, he always appears first in Patreon supporters at the end of the video
He'll need funding from Kelly Moneymaker
Happy to see another upload!
all hail the mighty James bissonette! 🙏
happy to see you're still sponsoring the channel!
@@Steelhart69420 hoping to keep doing so for a very long time. Love this channel
I like your animation style and the style of you explaining things.
As a Canadian and a historian of this period of French history, this is exceptionally well explained!
Your an english Canadian not a Canadien
@@ommsterlitz1805 ? french or english canadians we are all canadians in the end
Been from this area as well. I like how you highlight the fact that this part of North America was not offering the same level of luxuriously goods compared to the caribbean colonies. It's a aspect never mention in the teaching of Québec and Canada, beyond been a conquered land we are also an abandon one by the French.
Well it sure came to bite them in the ass later. Although IMO if they had taken back Quebec, in historical perspective they were likely also thinking that Americans make bad neighbours, and 10, 20, 50 years down the line they would be caught in constant territorial encroachments from US settlers, territorial disputes, or even full blown war. One which would be super expensive, have little gain, and little to no chance of winning. Projecting power across the globe is hard enough today, let alone 200 years ago when it took 2 months to cross the Atlantic and French North America had a colonial population of 250,000ish across a continent.
As a Québécois I would say that this video is spot on on accuracy. Good work 12/10 would watch again.
I always love how "done" colonial natives look
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Bisonette or Bissonnette ;) ?
Unfortunately James Bisonette would face deep resistance from Montreal which still holds strong ties with Canada for business, including strong contributors like the pastry section.
@@TheMetalheadQC neither
@@gregoryaldous2165 by "Montreal" you mean West Island?
i love how quick and brief and concise your videos are.. get my sarcasm???
As always an excellant video. Short, brilliantly explained with nice dry humor. Perfection as always. Literally got my BS in History because I love the topic and videos like this are so facinating to learn from. Keep it up!
The king of France was more interested in his profitable sugar producing islands than in cold Quebec.
Reasonable since the land wasn’t really useful to them economically
@@galatheumbreon6862 Yes
h yes sugar as opposed to maple syrup.
@@ryeguy7941 Sugar cane was much more profitable than maple syrup in the 18th century.
@@davea6314 I know, I was just making a joke.
Another awesome video. I like the French "our money" chart with the additional taped on portion LMFAO 1:26
Would be interesting to see a video on Norway during WW2, honestly.
Yes
Something something Quisling
@@jonbaxter2254 all I know about Norway is Quisling and they fought longer than France
I also forgot to mention something called the "German girls", which were essentially women that had slept with Germans and had German children and so were treated absolutely horribly when the war was over as they were seen as Nazi collaborators
@@lelouchvibritannia7809 My shoebox fought longer than France
The colors of the room at 2:09 are the real colors of the Quebec national assembly (parliament). Impressive attention to detail.
colours not colors 🤨
Nah colors
@@EthanReeceGrantWorth That's such a Canadian thing to say
nicely explained. Thanks you as a Frnch-canadian Quebecois. :)
You're Canadian simple as that
To bad you can't keep your shitty politics out of the rest of the country.
@@xGodWontSaveUx je suis fièrement québécois ! Et c’est mon droit de me proclamer de la sorte.
@@xGodWontSaveUx nope, sorry. We're not English. Try again. Besides, do you know that "Leafs" saying they're Canadians is cultural appropriation?
@@xGodWontSaveUx .. french-canadian means your main language is french.. that is still canadian. no need to start a war abt it
2:52
"France had missed her chance." Nice turn of phrase.
This channel always makes my day better! And I hope that James Bisonette is having a good day too I feel like he's a cool guy lol
Much appreciated!
As a French Canadian form Quebec, I can say that nowdays, france has a lot of influence on socials medias on Quebec and I loved this video
How do you deal with Frances constant criticism of the Quebec accent?
Also do Parisians really complain that it’s as bad or worse than the Jamaican accent or is that just a English Canada myth?
@@petergould9174 Actually, French people and most of the French speaking part of Europe love the accent, every single french person I've talked to told me they loved the accent. Parisians have some difficulty to understand certain words but they will find it funny :D I've never heard of Parisians complaining about the French Canadian accent
@@petergould9174 French and Canadian here
The accent from Québec is quite special on it's own, really distinct, yet absolutely understandable. Source of a lot friendly fun and joke, but nothing mean. It is just différent. Thurthermore, people from Paris are quite often assholes, almost all French agree on that (and it is rare we agree on something)
@@petergould9174 it's not criticism just jokes lol and no it's 100% understandable
@@lamevegetation572 Bruh i see people all the time in the comments under video cracking up at the Quebec accent. "Putain je comprends rien MDR", "Mais c'est trop mignon votre accent"
They'll do anything but engage with the actual content. To them the QC accent is some funny anomaly not to be taken seriously (including what's actually being said).
Shorter answer: a) France was broke and bankrupt after paying for their intervention in the American revolution (which led to the calling of the Estates General to solve the French King's bankruptcy crisis. Turned out the 3rd estate decided to declare a revolution instead!)
And b) When the French revolution started, it tore down the Church. It not only confiscated all of its properties, it made all Priests employees of the state. They then went on to found the "Cult of Reason" and worked to destroyed the Church.
Quebec was heavily Catholic. Indeed, the Protestant British not only tolerated the Church and Catholicism, but allied with the Church and encouraged the French Quebec to embrace their Catholic culture.
So seeing their beloved Catholic Church and culture be destroyed in France, they had no wish to rejoin a post- revolution France.
But many: France was always too broke to reconquer it.
They’d should have asked James Bissonette for help
Also catholicism explains why they didn't join the american in their revolution, you'd think that a newly conquered people would jump at the opportunity to join a secessionist movement against their conqueror but it was either stay with the british who gave them a lot of concessions regarding their religion (catholicism) or join the american who were pretty extremist in their views regarding religion and were pretty hostile to catholicism in general.
@@ecurewitz I laughed so hard lol. It’s amazing how a Patreon donator of a UA-cam channel focused on history can have an impact significant enough for us to joke about it.
Even now it is not toolate When Ian Smith declared UDI in southern Rhodesiaand got away with it why not Quebec??
@@ecurewitz He has a French name too so he would most likely help!
As a québécoise myself, I must say this video is very informative !
A Québécoise speaking English ? Sacrilège !
@@joundii3100 c’est honteux !
@@kiyoinaa Exactement. Vive le Québec libre tabarnak.
@@joundii3100 C’est toujours les plus vulgaires sans classe qui utilisent ce vocabulaire !
I've hear people call the Quebec people "Quebecer'' or '' Quebecois'' but ''Quebecoir'' is really the best of both world (0:11)
It's Québecois
@@MetalCharlo dig it
As a Canadian, I always remember Voltaire's dismissive "quelques arpents de neige" !
1:41 New word of the day from History Matters: Napoleoning
I heard that rhyme you said at the end. And excellent summary! Bravo!👏👏👏
The ending bit reminded of how Spain and Mexico also see each other as cousins but not being that close. Despite this I have seen Spanish people online try to compare Spanish and Mexican relations to the US and UK and Im like nahhhh that's stretching it 😅
Spain is several orders of magnitude closer to its former Latin American colonies than France is with Quebec.
Anglo-American alliance is by far the strongest alliance in the world. There's no other alliance really quite like it.
@@declannewton2556 yeah but it's not like they're best buddies watching each other's backs or anything. Spain would rather hang out with France, Italy, and Portugal
No love lost for the Portuguese in Brazil either. But even though the Portuguese are not very fond of Brazilian immigrants, to put it lightly, I was quite shocked to see how influential Brazilian pop culture is in Portugal when I visited Porto
@@Spongebrain97 Thats cause first and foremost we are europeans.
As a Québecois our french is actually derived from an old French used in the 17th century because of our isolation from the fench culture in France and our stubbornness to not wanting to learn English. So there is actually a lot of difference between French Canadian and metropolitan French.
Some Examples of different pronunciations (metropolitan French is right, french Canadian is left) :
Me : Moi - Moué
Car : voiture - char
Boyfriend: petit copin - chum
Also, the letter a is pronounced differently and many sentences are also. So much that french Canadian movies have metropolitan french subtitles!
culture?
car = culture?
The head of the French department in our English high school in Montreal (1960s) denied there was any difference between Quebec French and European French. I have always wondered why he maintained this obvious absurdity. They taught us European French - which is why I never understood the "natives."
@@datass7197 oops that's an error on my part. It should be voiture sorry!
@@floxy20 the french itself is 100% the same. Accent/slang is different. Kinda like London english vs Newyork english for exemple. Same but very diffrent.
Especially happy to read virtually no Quebec-bashing comments below. It is quite ubiquitous whenever the topic of Canadian-French Culture/Heritage is raised. Great work on the vid ! And thanks to an intellectually, curiously insatiable audience that can keep this corner of the internet clean.
Still, there's some comments on full french. Considering this video is in English and has majority English speaker (either native or not), those commentaries was felt a bit off. Me myself is not English speaker or in Anglo region in anyway, and seeing that just give the express of "exclusivity", and exiled themselves to fellow viewers.
Great video, also the french revolution contributed to distancing the two, because french canadians (as they were called then) condemned it and were loyal to the church.
C'est de là que nôtre drapeau vient !
The church of Mary-worshipping heretics.
The Quebec clergy condemned the French Revolution and preached from the pulpit otherwise the habitants would have been nonetheless wiser.
Just an info for americans i think: the 7 years war did in fact last 7 years but there were already some conflicts in north america between french and english settlers before
oh and excellent video
Why is this information for Americans? The whole damn war kicked off when English colonists (soon to be Americans; George Washington was one of them) fought the French in what is now Pennsylvania and Ohio.
@@timmccarthy872 because in america they think it lasted 9 years. But north america was really not the most important theatre. But the actual conflict started in 1756. The 2 main reasons for conflict were the austro prussian rivalry in silesia and the franco british rivalries in the caribbean and india. The " french and indian war" was a secondary front that would not have huge impacts in the short term as Québec was a very unimportant colony of the french
that's because the seven years war happened 2 years after the start of the French and Indian war and since it ended the same time as the former it is considered just one big conflict.
France and England have a habit of fighting wars that last longer than their names.
@@padinspi11 the French and Indian War also had differing goals from the overall 7 years war which was the Ohio River Valley
Great introductory treatment. Good to stress the modern sense of difference from France. That said, Britain did not take New France in order to make the 13 colonies free to expand further westward. In fact, subsequent to the capture of New France, the British enacted a policy specifically prohibiting further Westward expansion.
I think it was either sarcasm, or he was alluding to the fact that the war started because the Americans didn't like the French forts in the Ohio valley because they were blocking expansion westward.
@@tastyfalcon1788The French were gone after 1763, but the Thirteen Colonies couldn't expand Westward. Settlement wasn't allowed.
@@dinkster1729 That doesn't contradict anything I said? The Americans were blocked by the French before the war, and it wasn't until after the war that the British colonies were prohibited from expanding westward (although many did anyways)
"Loyal colonists who are loyal" bit caught me off guard haha
2:30 Charles De Gaulle causing everyone to say "Bruh?" throughout history.
Amazing! You should make a video about Quebec’s two independence referendums in 1980 and 1995 👀
When France gave up New France instead of the colonies in the Caribbean to the UK, there was a joke in France at the time that said the British traded sugar for snow.
It's funny how half of the British empire was land that worth nothing and they keep it because nobody wanted and the other half was India
@@joaquinrodriguez227 British Empire was 25% of the land with 25% of the population. It was about averagely populated.
@@DouchebagDex i was refering at the fact that places like Canada, Austria or Egypt where in mayority whortless desserts that the British have because prestige, and that India was the most valuable land in the empire
*Newfoundland in 1867:* "No, we don't want to join Canada because there are too many French-speaking Catholics in Quebec."
*Quebec in 1949 after Newfoundland joins Canada:* "Yeah, we would like to leave now..."
Also QC never officially accepted cease or Labrador from province borders xD
Your description of Québécois and French people seeing each other as cousins is very accurate! Happy you phrased it that way!
The French in Kingston Ontario definitely don't feel like they are French-Canadians. My room-mate in Montreal was raised in Paris and was French. She thought, I think, that the Quebecois were provincial. I went to a play put on by U d'M students once and she said to me "What was it about? La Conquete or Le Grand Dérangement?" Like those 2 themes were all that French-Canada would make a play about. She was interested in history, too, but studied psychology instead to be ready to earn a living.
Driving to Quebec from Ontario always feels like you're in a completely different country.
Trust me, buddy, the feeling is mutual. Your roads are sooooo sooooo much nicer. But then you get to Ottawa and realize that Ottavians have a driving IQ of about -150. Then we get to Toronto and we feel right at home with everyone driving like posessed retards but with skills.
@@ColStuart I'm from the GTA myself and oh yeah I agree with both those points 100%
As an Anglophone Quebecer, driving to Ontario feels like you're in a completely different country, yet so does driving to the East End of Montreal and beyond.
Really? There’s a lot of French spoken in the eastern Ontario towns/cities bordering QC
Great video. With the US so economically dominant it's easy to forget how recent that was. The US was slow to embrace industrialism as a big part of the enlightenment ideal was a gentleman farmer, close to nature. Thomas Jefferson made a point of advising against this as he thought it would corrupt them. Unlike the Spanish colonies that pumped out Gold and Silver, there were very unprofitable producing fur, tobacco and not much else.
There were a lot of attempts to build Franco-Quebecois connections in the '60s. This led to, among other projects, a joint Peugeot-Renault assembly plant.
“Too much time has passed and France, missed her chance.”
Sweet Poetry, by History matters.
Its quite pleasant to see history channels covering our oh so often forgotten province , thank you for this video!
You might be interested in the independance movement , my father used to tell me that the referendum was very close , it might be a good video idea for you
It was extremely close. I remembering watching it as a kid in western Canada and seeing the two sides marching down the street toward each other from their headquarters. Looked like Montreal was about to be engulfed in urban war.
Your province is not forgotten!
Plenty of University-educated Brazilians would love to migrate to Quebec. You should open Québécois French language schools in Brazil; there are only Alliance Française units teaching the Parisien standard, unfortunately.
Glory to Quebec!
Forgotten by whom exactly? I would say Quebec is one of the most well known provinces.
@@Seisachtheia What a joke! My mother who must been what? in her 70s then went down to Montreal from Kingston with a friend just as old originally from Hollland to demonstrate because Brian Tobin put out the call. Free bus ride (184 miles). Mommy and her friend Nelly weren't going to be engulfed in any civil war. Their demonstration was heavily guarded as well. A bunch of us Francophiles went down to our City Hall in Kingston for a bit of a demonstration in support of Canada. "My Canada includes Quebec." was the slogan then. Our Francophone trustees and superintendent gave a short speech. That referendum proved nothing. That's why there's a Clarity Act now.
@@no_more_spamplease5121 You can learn Quebecois French from You Tube and la Banque de Terminologie. An International French is pretty accepted in Quebec. Nobody expects you to speak French like a lumber jack or a fisherman or a construction worker. Tabernac.
I love this channel. “Napoleon-ning.” I recommended this channel to my cousin who is a high school history teacher.
Would you guys be able to do the Acadian deportations? Its a relatively niche but important part of Maritime Canadian history.
And US history as well, would be a good topic
I've always been a bit confused in Canadian history by the Acadian French and the French Quebecois, why the Acadians were expelled in the 1700's to the U.S. What is the basic difference between the two groups plus why is there antagonism or hard feelings still today between some Quebecois and the Acadians.
@@michaelverbakel7632 I’m less sure about modern relations but quebec was free expulsion because the french still had it during the 7 years war and therefore the expulsion couldnt occur there, acadie or modern day maritimes was under british control after 1713 treaty of Utrecht and so the british and acadians had a tense relationship for several decades until 1755. Acadians could actually farm the land so the british tolerated them until they could properly settle the land, however that could only be done with the settlement of the port city of halifax in the 1740s with the french indian war happening shortly thereafter. Then the british started the expulsion so that new british settlers could take over instead because of the active war. However after the war the british were relatively less hostile and allowed many acadians to settle in mostly modern NB as far as i understand
@@JoeUrbanYYC The Americans blame the big, bad British for the Expulsion of the Acadians. I kid you not.
@@michaelverbakel7632 The Acadians were expelled because the British wanted their farm land and they wanted to resettle it with English-speaking Protestants like my ancestors on my Father's Mother's side. The Acadians said they were neutral, but they weren't that neutral because they were French-speaking and Roman Catholic like France at the time. The French still controlled Louisbourg in Cape Breton Island, too, so they weren't that far away.
As a québécois, I like and approve this episode! Thanks for making it!
2:09 - I think the joke here is that in French, there are two words for "You": "Tu" and "Vous". Tu is considered informal, vous is considered formal; it's a bit like the difference between "Mr. Doe" and "John" but in a pronoun version. In France, vous and tu are used in their respective sense, and it's considered rude to refer to someone as "Tu" unless you're in an informal setting, but in Quebec they use the word "Tu" much more frequently and in more general scenarios.
Basically, the Quebecois guy on the left is just saying "Hello to you" the way he would say it to anyone, but the French guys on the right think he's being disrespectful because he used the wrong word for "You"
Thou shall not kill. Same as tu in French.
No. The joke is that “Bonjour à tu” is syntactically wrong.
You can say “bonjour à vous” or “bonjour à toi”.
Imagine you go to a restaurant, and the waiter tells you: “Hello at yourself !” You understand him, but it’s wrong.
@@vincemarenger7122 You are correct about it being syntactically wrong, but I don't think that was the joke. If anything, I think it was just a minor mistake on the creator's part. I believe the joke he was trying to convey was the cultural difference between "Tu" and "Vous" because it makes more sense in the context of the point. It's a dialectical difference between the two cultures, which is what he was discussing. The tu/toi thing is a syntax error which neither French nor Québecois would consider correct.
"Bonjour à tu" is wrong (it should be «Bonjour à toi»). But one notable distinction between the French spoken in Québec versus France, is that in Québec a colloquial way to phrase a question is to add "tu" after the verb in an otherwise normally formed proposition. For example, we might say "Tu veux-tu aller au parc?" (Would you like to go to the park?). This is not standard French, as we should formulate the question by inverting the verb and pronoun: "Veux-tu aller au parc?". It's actually from an older dialect of French, in which questions were formed with "ti". But people from France often find it funny to hear this "wrong" or "archaic" formulation, especially in the plural form: "Vous avez-tu fait bon voyage?" (Did you have a nice trip?)
parlons peu mais parlons bien!
"And France...
...had missed their chance."
Wordplay level 10/10
Her not their
@@galatheumbreon6862 Sorry, I guess I misheard that :)
"A few acres of snow" is taught in Québec history classes, and I think that disparaging comment is fundamental in Québec-France relations. It displays such utter contempt and dismissiveness. Which is further compounded by the rest of France's history with the Americas: they never tried to regain Québec, they did however fight to hold on to various other islands and southern territories, they sat indifferent during times of persecution, and they never displayed great interest in Québec affairs, aside from the De Gaules comment which was greatly criticized back home.
To further excasberate the divide, there is the cultural divide. The French often affectionally call Québec their "little cousin". They often view the accent and regionalisms as quaint. And overall tend to have a very patronizing and belittling attitude towards Québec. In Québec, the French tend to be viewed less as cousins, but more like that annoying old aunt that lacks manners and is always pinching your cheek saying how cute you are.
I'd say animosity is rather rare, but it explains what would otherwise be an anomalous lack of a re-unification movement. I don't think I have ever heard someone sincerely arguing that Québec should reunify with France. Besides, France always sounds like such a mess, even the French complain about France all the time, and a ton of people emigrate from France to live in Québec every year, and Québec universities are very popular with French students.
Centuries of seperation also does a lot to cleave a people apart. The people from Québec didn't live European history during all those years. They didn't live through the destruction of their lands during the world wars. They didn't live with the threat of invasions for well over a century. And before then, the bloody revolutions, religious persecutions, the napoleonic wars. They also were never part of the Republic(s). Québec grew under British rule. It is a parliamentary monarchy, and we have our lieutenant-governor under Canada's governor-general. We do have a civil code, but also greatly use English common law. Québec spent most of these years as a very catholic people, while in France the Roman Catholic church lost a lot of sway a very long time ago. Even linguistically, Québec still uses a lot of words, meanings, and pronounciations that the French eventually stopped using. Both have a very different approach to the feminization of titles, and various other minor linguistic rules.
The Québécois can be very proud of their French heritage, but pretty much none of them feel any significant connection with France in a more modern way. We are now very different people.
Very well analyzed
i am French and I totally share your point of view about our relation
Well said
No French call you the "little cousins". You are just French speakers for us.
I wouldn't say "contempt and dismissiveness". More like, yeah we literally segmented in different people, and why the heck would you want to spend precious ressoucres, fighting against the arguable top world power nonetheless, at a time when you are broke, torn by revolutions and enemies at your doors, and there are easier and more profitable targets elsewhere?
Historical context is, imho, not enough brought up here on the French side, like no mention of what's happening in France aside that they were broke after the american independance war? No wonder it looks like people just sailed away to eat cake at home... But reality was different. Also the way Britain and France handled the new world were quite different. While Britain sent people and settlers massively and tended to claim and take at the expense of the natives, France had a more conservative approach and didn't sent expeditions as much, resulting in magnitudes smaller populations actually moving to the new world, and a more cooperative approach with the natives.
Even Voltaire's "A few acres of snow" needs context, starting with what he meant by that, and what other things he said it with.
Your depiction of Canada's letter to France -- "bruh..." -- was perfection.👍
Maybe another video on how Quebec still speak french despite being administered by english-speaking people for about 200 years.
Short answer: The Québec Act and the Catholic Church.
Britain didn't want rebellions. Plus, unlike say indigenous African languages. The British saw a value in the French language. A large amount of British monarchs could speak French for example, including the current one.
About 262 years lol
@@walsh9080 They initially tried pretty hard to assimilate us, but around the time of the American revolution, they significantly reduced their efforts for fear of us rebelling in the same way the US did, so they gave us some more freedoms.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Also, high fertility
French Canadians (be it québécois or not) population grew impressively until the Quiet Revolution (1960s). Just so you get the amplor - there were about 10 000 Acadiens left at the start of the 19th century in Canada. A century later, there were around 140 000. This was mostly due to the high frequency and early age of marriage. If the Great Hemorrhage didn't happen, the population of Québec would be at least 16 million rn.
Hard to turn a majority into a minority by immigration if they're shitting out childs.
They didn’t want us back once they heard we say Chocolatine instead of Pain au chocolat.
Don't start them for fucks sake !
sacrilège!
Pain au chocolat or P'tit pain is accepted.
Chocolatine is used in parts of southern France, and they are like the cathares: HERETICS.
The war has been continuing just like the religious wars from back then.
LOL
Le sud-ouest on est avec vous car on dit aussi chocolatine
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
You adequately summarized the latter third of the class I had last year with Alain Laberge on the Seven Years War period, the Conquest war and its impact on New France, over here at Laval University in Quebec City. Well done.
Slight correction - I'll leave out historical details, since this is a communications and vulgarization channel. Dates however are important, and yours are wrong. Quebec City fell in 1759, Montreal (and thus the entire colony) in 1760. New France was under British military rule for three years, up to 1763. You're three years away. You could argue the creation of the province of Quebec marks the "official" annexation of Quebec, but it was already under total British military rule since 1760!
If you're interested, I can go in-depth as to my criticism of this video's content, but overall I quite liked it.
I was also looking for info on the video on other French-speaking parts of Canada outside of Québec. They are always forgotten …
@@algonquin91 Yeah, French Canadians outside of Quebec are often neglected, by media, history and governments alike. This unfortunately is not a new situation.
There's a sizeable population of francophones in Ontario that goes unnoticed in the rest of the world. In their own province, however, they are very well-known and not very well-liked by the state.
@@marcantoinechateauvert You are from Ontario? The federal Liberals are afraid of what might happen in Quebec if Ontario got too nasty toward the Francophones in Ontario.
2:38 Bruh...
Nice rundown) Thank you!
As a québécois this was well appreciated
It might be worth mentioning that the last time Quebec was under the control of France, France had a King. When the French Revolution happened, France really wasn't the same country anymore. This was a key point in the french of France and the french of Quebec becoming more like cousins than brothers, as the colonists still had loyalty to a Monarchy that had helped them settle, instead of a president who really didn't care about them at all.
Nice to hear about my nation's history from someone outside of it! Keep it up! 🤙
As a Quebecer i can say that the Quebec French language is constantly evolving, The Quebec accent is the old French that France used in the 17th century and after this the french of France changed a lot, but in Quebec we kept the same accent and it was anglicized a little bit between the 18th and 19th century, then it was frenchified again between the 20th and 21th century. That's why even if it's the same language as France, due to many modifications through the past centuries it's now a totally different French. But at the end, we still have the same blood in our veins, i am my self a direct descendant of the commander Guillaume Richard "Dit Lafleur" who was killed in Montreal during the war.
We are to the French from France as the Australians are to the English in England.
@@maverick7291
Sure, I guess that's a nice analogy.
if u went to france and spoke to the french people their, would it be difficult to understand eachother?
Nah. The Cajuns could talk to the French just fine in WWII. Parisians are just defensive about their language as French really is the language of Paris.
@@randomrazr Not that much, we get used to it, if as an American you can understand what a New Zelander can say then it's pretty much the same thing.
I'm an American whose Quebecois ancestry is "pure laine" to the point we don't deny our metis ancestors, either. We wouldn't bloody be here otherwise, filles de Roi or not. This video was fantastic. Note: Quebec's settlers used the name Canada first. When the provinces that gained independence from the UK wanted a name, they ripped it off from the Quebecois. Par for the course, really. Quebec proposes, Canada steals (passes the puck to Ontario, he shoots, he SCORES!).
An American and
Quebec qua , with that double shot of arrogance and self entitlement you must be a Trump supporter.
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Wow, even their American descendents are whiners.....
They even stole the national anthem from us ffs!
Cultural appropriation
French Canadian grandfather was born....in New Hampshire. Quebec'ers were and are all through New England, but in school in the USA it's pretty much ignored.
Watching you all trying to figure out anyone's history, is actually more of a show in itself then what you attempted with this video.
...loyal colonists there, who were LOYAL..."
Ahh yes, foreshadowing
My favorite part of the entire episode. 'course I'm American. but a black American. That's a subject for another time
There actually was still a large population of loyalists before and during the American Revolution that helped out the British army during the war. But when Britian lost many either surged and stayed with the Union or fleed to British controlled Canada.
Can you do a Video on why Monaco exists? Thanks👍
So that rich French people can pay no taxes. Same reason Jersey exists in the US.
@@uwu_senpai early medieval casino and tax heaven for french people, became tax heaven for international people now
I'm just happy I'm not the only one pointing out that the Seven Years War was nine years long
Thank you for the respectful episode about some "acres of snow" :)
Also, it's prononced "Kay-Beck", not "Qweebek"
He said the name in the english pronunciation which is qweebek
@@emericdion but he said the respectful "quebecois" as kay-beck-oa, so he should have used the respectful kay-beck given qweebek has recently gained a noticeable pejorative undertone.
@@Game_Hero If the English prononciation is viewed as pejorative that's definitely something not known to most people outside of Quebec for the vast majority of people it's like saying "tomato" versus "tohmahto". I myself was unaware that pronouncing Quebec with an English accent was now pejorative there was certainly no offense intended by it.
@@Seisachtheia If it's not known, that's great, gives me the chance to make it known then! If you want a point of reference from a local, It has given me, for instance, the same vibe as "jap" to describe japanese people. Of course, I wouldn't blame people to not know about it, given how it is mostly anglophone Canadians who get to talk about us on the world stage, not actual Quebecois.
@@Game_Hero With respect, I think that's an entirely self afflicted comparison. Few English speaking Canadians (and I live in an area with some significant hostility toward Quebec) view pronouncing the name a particular way as a sleight. In fact, it is often considered better to pronounce it with an English accent given the degree to which people who aren't fluent in French can be ostracized for getting it wrong. If you're English pronounce it the English way because it's more offensive to pronounce it the French way, most people would view it as "putting on airs".
The term "Jap" on the other hand is explicitly meant to be racially derogatory and crafted that way.
It is interesting though to hear that there are people who view it entirely the opposite way.
"Dear France, bruh... Eternally yours, Canada"
I think this is my favorite history matters visual yet
Wow!! Interesting to randomly click on this and see my tiny island of Tobago get a mention!!!🙂
As a someone who is French I feel 2:09 in my soul despite my many Quebecois friends.
Any chance you could do a video on why the Isle of Man was never incorporated into the United Kingdom?
The thing i like about history matter is how he makes so hillarious historical jokes which just can be understood by a well educated person
"To give its loyal colonists, who wee loyal room to expand."
Narrator : *They were not loyal*
You should definitely check out the historic speech that De Gaulle gave from the balcony of Montreal's city hall in 1967! You'll find it right here on UA-cam. It's not very long, but very powerful. Most Québécois cannot listen to it without getting teary-eyed.
I doubt that. How many Quebecois are separatists today? Not many. Back then, a lot of people entertained the idea because they wanted French to not be dominated by English. They are still working on that though.
@@dinkster1729 The independence sentiment is coming back up in popularity lately. The last poll puts it at 38% in favour of leaving Canada: about the same number as just before the 1995 referendum, which ended-up at basically 50-50.
I love the dead-pan humor that sometimes exploits the silliness of life/events (0:29): "...accepted defeat in the Seven-years war--named so because it lasted for nine years." LOL!
Merci, History matters.
You'll probably get lots of hate in the comments for even mentioning that quebecois do exist and are actually a real people.
Usually when i see a video about quebec pop up in my feed i'm always a bit anxious and i know it's gonna be condescending and/or plain hateful.
But you stayed neutral and informative, thank you.
And to my susprise, people in the comments are not openly calling for our murder or deportation to france like they used to all do 5 years ago.
So thats a small but important step i guess.💓
Hello!
Brazilians have nothing against Québécois. Indeed, you are all very welcome in our land.
We speak a sister Romance language, Brazilian Portuguese, another distinct variation developed in the Americas.
Salut!
This channel is mainstream, and says nothing truly controversial or reffecting independent thinking except some trivial jokes.