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The Brothers Krynn's avatar

The Anglophones, Francophones & Gallophones forged Canada from nothing. It was their spirit and their mettle that forged something from nothing.

I loved this essay, and it amuses me to no end that having done some testing of my DNA, there's only really Scotch and Franc DNA in me so none of my ancestors were involved in 1812 save for one Scot who came over to apparently slaughter Americans, in exchange for a farm (apparently he got one, and then learnt French, married into Quebec).

Ours is the Loyalist nation, and much of the traditional Scottish, Anglo, and Francish culture I love and was raised in that forms the bedrock and spine of Canada and Europe is what I've poured into my novels.

I'll need to have a look at your sources to better entrench myself philosophically in my racines and in Canada though.

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N.M. Iversen's avatar

Very interesting, well-written and well-researched article.

Canada is a conservative British and French American project. Any attempt to out-liberal the U.S. is a road to ruin.

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The Brothers Krynn's avatar

Yep, though I’d say it is a British and French project not French American project (strange turn of phrase ‘French American’ no offence intended). And yeah any attempt to out-liberal the US is definitely a straight road off a cliff. Sad that this has been forced upon us.

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Orangeleaf's avatar

Good article.

Since you mentioned it I'd like to take the opportunity to brag that one of my Loyalist ancestors was a member of Butler's Rangers.

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The Elder of Vicksburg's avatar

Excellent piece and very helpful to my own project on the South, which similarly despised the New Englanders.

I’d always had the impression, too, that more Scots than Irish came to Canada.

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Fortissax's avatar

Thank you!

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Heinrich W's avatar

Amazing writing. This is my favourite read of yours yet

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Jan's avatar

Excellent article!

I'm a bit surprised, however, you (or was it your sources?) neglected to mention the First Nations involvement in defending British North America, and their subsequent settlement in Ontario. It was only relatively recently I learned* that the Six Nations were native to New York State area, NOT Ontario, and were granted land here for their allegiance and service to the Crown, largely the same as other Loyalists.

Several of my ancestors were Loyalists (also Butler's Rangers). They were granted land, and with one exception are buried in - ahem, cough, cough - unmarked graves in a local Loyalist cemetery. A headstone was found for ONE of them, the exact resting place of the others is lost to time. Same as for many pioneers and settlers of the period.

How intentional and seemingly malign revisionism re: unmarked graves' of the period has led pretty directly to the toppling of statues and expunging Dundas from the record is a thing of wonderment (not of the good kind though). I note that all this is only - ever - happening to Anglo-Canadians & British Canadian heritage, never Franco-Canadians, and I have to ask what's behind this?

Thank you for undertaking this monumental task of dragging Canadian history up from the depths of neglect and abandonment instigated by Liberal progressives, who've done their best to kill it outright. Much appreciated, Sir.

*I learned this from a Six Nations website which talked about their Loyalist roots and war time allegiances (as in 1812), and from there started researching my own family history.

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Cam's avatar

I'm curious, in your opinion was the dismantling of the Family Compact and Chateau Clique by Responsible Government a net positive or negative? They formed the cultural and institutional bedrock of Canada that succeeding generations built up from, but it seems democratization was inevitable as well and their monopoly couldn't last

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B1234's avatar

A good history of the 17 and 1800s. Now do the 1900s, focusing on the 1920s bootlegging rise of the Bronfman family, and how said family used their money and influence to subvert the original founding families objectives; leading to a Canada today that does not resemble in form or function the original intended country.

Then, if you really want a challenge, show us a path back that doesn't involve a violent overthrow of the "alleged globalist pedo" regime that appears to control all aspects of the government through a combination of blackmail, bribery, and the new woke religion...

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Orangeleaf's avatar

You mentioned the loyalists being taught British history, do you have any idea what books they studied from?

Specifically regarding the historic rights of Englishmen, this is something I've heard often and would like to study more deeply.

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Requited's avatar

Well done sir!

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Chris's avatar

I assume the title of your article is sarcasm.

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Kevin's avatar

Or, thinking about it, the Dual Monarchy headed by the Hapsburgs. Hungary as Quebec.

Bigger entities are taking interest in the divisions within Canada, and not primarily Ontarios favourite bete noire.

PM Carney hopes? his European friends/Hohenzollerns? will backstop him from the outside -Trudeau seemed to bet on the CCP. Or is that still the case and the Europeans are a beard.

I wonder what Canadians who see themselves as North American think of this.

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Fortissax's avatar

Why wouldn’t Canadians see themselves as North American? The Canadians I write about in this article did.

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Kevin's avatar

This reads like preWar Serbian stories written for Serbians.

Which war? Any of them.

And Ontario is different? How.

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Singh 47's avatar

So the Anglo Canadian garrison state was deposed and replaced within a generation of 1812?

Is the later responsibly governed multi denominational entity even a spiritual successor?

You had to prove just cause for carrying firearms at some point shortly after anyway. Is gun control and "the strength of women" the struggle now?

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James's avatar

It's hard to overlook (as an extremely old-stock Brit) that these British ideals are fundamentally cynical, given the British monarchy was not loyal to its ancient religion. The Revolutions were themselves outgrowths of the British Reformation, the very first institutionalised revolt.

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