I dislike the fact that they show the Acadians as unkept people....However, besides poor cinematic choices, I am glad to see something on this lost part of North Americas history. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, knew nothing of my families background, and certainly nothing was told of Acadians and their plight in history, in our world history lessons. I think our survival in this continent for so long, despite Brittains politics of the time, is a testament to our tenacity.
@80v8camaro your the same idiot that posted on another video, also claiming englands ties with nazism. Well, as i stated in another reply, its pretty ironic how france were so quick to surrender to the nazis in comparison to britian, yet you claim england, one of the constituent countries of the united kingdom is a nazi state.
@80v8camaro you obviosuly have some sort of connection wit french ancestry, or have another issue to which you have supreme butthurt and feel the need to make an unfounded comment stating that english people have connections with nazism. Its like me saying that saudi arabia is full of christian fundamentalists.
@SKNews2 England lost the battle of France too. Thanks to the french who held the germans in Dunkerk the brits had a pretty successful retreat back to the UK.
"The French held 7 german divisions in Lille during 3 days and thus saved at least 100,000 more troops in Dunkerk. England wouldn't have been able to carry on the war without this splendid contribution of the French 1st Army".
Winston Churchil
Now we aren't here to debate about WWII but next time show some respect
En séparant les femmes et les enfants des hommes après leur avoir volés leurs propriétés les britanniques ont faits à 3 occasions des crimes de guerre digne des nazis et ce 185 auparavant contre des Français de la Nouvelle-France.
Ceux-ci ont été expédiés par bateau aux colonies anglaises et réduit à une forme d'esclavage. affichés comme nom de rue au Canada. ces soldats britanniques font-ils partis des soldats commémorés le onze novembre??
@90scoolll They are called Acadians because those French descents established themselves in Acadia. Acadia was region that included parts of what is know today as New-Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of course this region doesn't exist today officially because of the Acadian deportation which is explained in this video.
@richacho1 This explains nothing. One English general made the decision to expel the Acadians from their lands simply because they would not pledge themselves to the English King (they had no love of the French King either). The Indians, who hated the English more than the French, threatened to kill the Acadians if they acquiesced. The Acadians were made homeless, but my ancestors eventually arrived in New Orleans sick and destitute and a retired General d'Hautrive helped them, and they thrived.
Vivre La Acadia Francaise, Francoise de La NOVO FRANCE Republique De Amerique de Norte. Angleterre c'est Criminail. La Morte De La Angleterre Criminail Contra De La NOVO Republique Acadiens De La Novo France et de CANADA Novo France Libre et de Rebublique Novo Acadien Francaise Libre et Le Novo France De La Novo France et du CANADA Francoise-Francaise Libre!!!!Vivre Le Generale Loise De MontCalm Francaise-Francoise Novo France De La QUEBEC et du CANADA-Acadien et du Allie Indions de HuronsAllie!
I knew this wonderful acadian woman from New-Brunswick ; hair like the fiery sun and superb green eyes. She was in the process of finding relatives in Louisiana and Australia, searching in family tree and all. I hope she found them.
@Hanniboom Edmund O'Callaghan, Wolfred and Robert Nelson, ect, were obviously speaking french, 95% of the Patriotes were "Canadiens-français". The political opponent of the Patriote was the English Party, supported by people like Molson and Mcgill, in a time were the Montreal Gazette was proclaming Anglo-saxon supremacy. The British united the 2 Canadas because they wanted to make the French-Canadian a minority, they knew the majority of English-Canadian were loyalist.
@Hanniboom in fact it's the contrary, the rebellion started in Lower-Canada, Québec. Patriotes wanted total independence they only declare Lower-Canada a republic. Mackenzie men wanted reform, the majority of the people of Upper-Canada, Ontario, were loyalist. In Québec, the Patriotes were the elected government it was a war against a foreign and oppresive army. In Ontario it was civil war between loyalist and reformist, same time, but 2 different thing, they were ally, but not the same people.
@Hanniboom the Canadian federation of today is the residue of the British empire. The Queen of England is the head of States of Canada and the commander in chief of the Canadian army, just symbol, but it means Canada is British. The Patriotes motto in 1837 was "Notre langue, nos institutions et nos lois". "Notre langue" our language! Singular, not plural. This was their election motto. They created the Saint-Jean Baptiste society, it is still active. Their is no "other ways" to look at history.
I don't see what is controversial about this. The majority of the Acadians refused to take the oath of allegiance. Now what would you do if you conquered a place and the people basically admitted that they would be a militia for your enemies if they ever showed up?
Its not as if the French were any different, they just didn't have the population to settle English places. Instead they took they entire population of towns (e.g Deerfield) prisoner and brought them back to Quebec.
@RaynauddeChatillon They had no choice. Pledge allegiance to England for to kill their own kin? That's what allegiance to the English Crown would have meant. That and death at the hands of the Indians who hated the English more than the Acadians did. Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence gave the order and his subordinates carried it out under duress. It was the first ethnic cleansing in the New World.
And it was necessary. As I said, the French would have done the same, they just didn't have the population to do so. They often raided English towns (such as Deerfield) and forts (such as Fort Massachusetts) with their savage allies, massacred people, and carried the survivors off to Montreal as prisoners. Often those prisoners weren't given the luxury of remaining with their families and were sent to live with Indians.
@RaynauddeChatillon The Acadians were a people. Montreal wasn't their capital. The English kept taking over their settlements. Deporting them for political purposes was harsh. When the British took the fake moral high ground during the American Revolution by abolishing slavery, they offered freedom to any slave that joined the British and settled them in Nova Scotia. Was that necessary? It was hypocritical, especially since many Acadians were sent to the Carolinas and put in the fields.
No that isn't hypocritical at all. Those African slaves agreed to fight for the British so it is only fitting that they should be rewarded for their services. On the other hand, the Acadians made it clear that they couldn't be trusted to not act as an auxiliary force for the French. Therefore the most logical thing the British could do was to deport them. As I said, the French would have done the same thing, and what are the Acadians, but French people who lived in Nova Scotia.
@Patriote17 I am of Metis(mixed blood) as well but I have also German from 1774 settled in Sillery, QC moved to Montreal, QC 1896 mixed with Norwegian Paternal (German+Norwegian) Maternal (Irish+ French Canadian/ Mohawk. The Mohawks were not the death knell of the Huron! The Church killed off the Huron or rather the priests did. They carried diseases from Europe that they were immune to but the Huron weren't . So many Huron died. So many that they could not resist the attacks of the Mohawk .
@Patriote17 The Mohawk were responding to the raids made by Huron, Ottawa, Abenake and Sauk/Fox on the Mohawk trap lines and hunting areas. If the Mohawk were intent on the annihilation of the Huron why didn't they wipe out the Salk or the Fox - smaller tribes easily overrun by a large War Party of Mohawk. The Mohawk took prisoners but treated them humanly as they wanted to be treated. Some were taught the Mohawk Language and ways and some were allowed to become Blood Brothers to Mohawk Family
Faut le faire quand meme! Une tentative de génocide sur sa propre population qui voulait demeurer neutre dans le conflit entre la France et l'Angleterre. La rapacité anglosaxonne est infinie...
As tragic as this is, I can honestly say that I'm glade that some Acadians either escaped the deportation or came back in 1763. They truley are wonderful, friendly people, and I'm glad that my uncle by marraige is Acadian (though you'd never be able to tell that), as well as my barber, and the Teacher and T.A.. Even if I am of British descent, I really do love the Acadian people, and I am thankful that they still live in New Brunswick.
yes death rate illegal genocide - - surpressed indians and catholics and french - stole our land and caused war all over the wolrd and - -Britts even dragged the people of canada into war --- hummm - who is worse English Loyalist or Hitler - - atleast with hitler it was a much more faster death -------it is no wonder why the french want a place of there own and the indians - catholics
@andymica the English did not name this war the French and Indian war for fun. 90% of the natives were our allies, many people in New-France were Métis. Our ancestors fighted only to stop the English expension in the Ohio valley, it was Natives land according to the Great peace of 1701.
Frog pussies, have not beaten the british in over 600 years, they start fights they cannot finish, and then claim being the victim whenever get their asses handed to them.
British ruined everything in Nova Scotia with the Acadian Deportation. The Acadians, Blacks, Germans, Irish, Native Indians, and Scottish. All in harmony. When the Acadians, Irish, and Scottish used to burn Protestant Churches, at Mass they used to read a Protestant Prayer in German for them (learned in book I'm currently reading). Blacks and Native Indians were treated with respect. Mathieu De Costa worked with fellow Blacks and translated Native Indian speech into French for them. FT British.
Ya we tried to separate already. That's when hundreds of bullshiters from the ROC showed up in school busses waving canadian flags crying..please stay! Don't go!
The British were acting cruel and horribly towards the French people from Canada. They had no right to evict them from their own land! I guess the French didn't have enough back-up to overcome them right at the spot. So sad this had to happen
J'ai oublié de demander ... Comment est-ce lié à l'histoire du Québec? C'est l'histoire n'est pas l'histoire du Québec, c'est l'histoire de la Nouvelle-Écosse.
@jefftipps they're the anti-christ to freedom and the mothers to opression
to much is never enough for them..
for hundreds of years Britian has opressed people, stole their land and resources, enslaved and murdered their people and people who settled their and then deserted them after they made a mess
eg. Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, France, India, Egypt..the list goes on and on and on
@kyle887923 Yea so did every other imperialist nation: Romans, Arabs, Chinese, British, French, German, American...the list goes on and on. Basically every empire has its history bathed in the blood of the innocent.
@SharkanKuthoshqea well, you have a point but not all the empires were based on the extent of the evil that the British introduced to the world. The British definitly brought a new dimention to the word EVIL.
The Persian empire at 500 BC (the biggest empire of ancient time) was for instance based on a model of tolerance and freedom for all the 28 nations subject to the central government. There are only a few such examples in the history but it proves the point: No evil empire can be justified.
@Mehranrokh I'm not going to attempt to make out that the British Empire was a good thing but I think your use of the word EVIL for the institution as a whole is too absolute to give a full appreciation of what was done. Certainly horrific things were done (to the Boers, the Indians etc.) but British world dominance was very much a double-edged sword. The Indians had elements of their culture attacked by us, but that also included suttee. The British navy eliminated the trans-Atlantice slave...
@Tyldesleyite if you are English you obiviously see the good thing of the British empire, but the people of Québec, Acadia, the Natives and even the people of Ireland will only see see the bad thing of the British empire. We don't see history from the same perspective. There is still a poltical conflict related to those thing in Québec, Acadia and Ireland. When those political conflict will be over, maybe people will see history from a different perspective.
@Patriote17 I agree with you completely, my friend. My comments were directed not at people who say that the British system did terrible things (it most certainly did) but at the two posters who said that the British Empire was the 'anti-Christ of freedom' and a 'new dimension of evil'. I was simply saying that Britain does have guilt because of the Empire but that it was not alone and certainly was not the worst by a long shot.
@Patriote17 I definitely wasn't trying to say that the Empire was a good thing overall but that it happened and has both elements of both good and bad, neither of which should be ignored. I certainly wouldn't expect the Irish, Acadians and Boers to readily acknowledge those elements of good when they suffered so much of the bad.
Again thanks for uploading the videos on the other battles of the French and Indian War. We never got a DVD release of that documentary on Region 2.
@Mehranrokh ...trade. How can you claim that the Persian Empire was a model of tolerance and freedom when it practiced slavery throughout its existence? When Britain brutally defeated the Boers and the Canadians they didn't enslave them afterwards. Frankly, its absurd to compare a product of the 18th and 19th centuries to a Biblical Empire anyway, but Britain practised tolerance when it suited them for the same reason as Persia. Not because of 'goodness', but to control masses with a few.
@Tyldesleyite dont put words into my mouth. I never said Persians were angels throughout the history, as a matter of fact I made it totally specific. I said the persian Achaemenid Empire at 500 BC was a model of tolerance and respect for other cultures, read about it and u will see what I am talking about. Brought it up as an example to reject this old claim that being in power makes being evil inevitable. Quite typical english strategy to use this argument to justify all the shit in history.
@Mehranrokh I have not justified any 'shit' in history, read my posts. I have acknowledged my country's historical crimes and pointed out that we are not alone and that nearly every other nation has similar burdens to bear. I HAVE NEVER ONCE said that being in power makes being evil inevitable, and my point about the Persians was specific to the Achaemenid Empire. Achaemenid tolerance was not based on morality but the need for order. Cultural tolerance in return for submission.
"The British definitly brought a new dimention to the word EVIL"
No, we didn't. Evil things were done but no new dimension. Conquering territory (since the Sumerians), Forced expulsion/migration of conquered population (since Charlemagne with the Saxons, and probably way before), replacing the elites in another country (Romans, Greeks), concentration camps (1830s USA), rape murder theft (any army/country in history), etc, etc.
@Mehranrokh And the other words I disagreed with:
"The Persian empire at 500 BC (the biggest empire of ancient time) was for instance based on a model of tolerance and freedom for all the 28 nations subject to the central government."
Cultural tolerance and freedom but not political freedom, but only as a means of maintaining order and control. How is that a 'model of tolerance and respect'? Toleration to prevent dissent to domination? A bit like the British Empire in India then.
@Tyldesleyite The British might not be the first to slave nations or systematic rape or forced imigrations or concentration camps, but british did alot of shit all at the same time and in sum to an extent unseen be4 and in all 4 corners of the world. BTW, dont even think of camparing britains imperialitic behaviour to the persian empire of the achaemenids. The british conquered in intension of stealing resources, while the achaemenids brought freedom and prosperity, do a reserach and u ll see.
@Mehranrokh To me the increase in scale is not really a 'new dimension to evil' but a new dimension to empire building, mainly down to technology and a population explosion. It might seem like I'm splitting hairs but although the difference might seem subtle it is important. I don't think it helps to use overly-dramatic and erroneous statements when discussing history. I think you're being a little disingenuous with your last statement. The 28 nations of the Achaemenid Empire did not become...
@Mehranrokh ..a part of that Empire because they wanted to be part of the 'Achaemenid Freedom and Tolerance'. They were conquered. I have in fact read about the Achaemenid Empire and therefore I will go so far as to think about comparing them (gasp) some more. The British Empire generally committed its moral outrages whilst conquering a territory or whilst putting down revolts. I am sure that you are aware of the violence which the Persian Army committed whilst conquering territory but are...
@Mehranrokh ...also aware of the brutal measures with which the Achaemenids put down revolts within their empire? If we take the period you suggested (approx 500BC) in the time of Darius I, we see horrific violence used to put down revolts and punish those responsible. He impaled Babylonian rebels amongst others as recorded on the Behistun Inscription, and leaders were mutilated and displayed before their impalement. It therefore amuses me to read your rose-tinted view of the Achaemenids...
@Mehranrokh ...who one dare not compare to the evil and villainous British. I reiterate what I said before. The relative tolerance and limited freedom granted to subject peoples in the Achaemenid was done for political and not moral reasons. The Achaemenids were also just as capable as Britain of committing atrocities whilst conquering and putting down revolts in that territory. Britain often granted relisious and political freedom to conquered peoples as a means of maintaining their hold on...
@Mehranrokh ...that territory. After brutally defeating the Boers, they were given political freedom and what followed was prosperity for them (if not the blacks). After brutally defeating New France, the French Canadians were given a number of freedoms (including religious) by Britain. Why? Because it made sound political sense which is identical to the motivation of the Achaemenids in their toleration and granting of limited freedom to subject nations.
@Mehranrokh "The british conquered in intension of stealing resources, while the achaemenids brought freedom and prosperity"
To sum up, the Achaemenids conquered territory with the intention of gaining resources, while the British brought freedom (by ending the slave trade) and prosperity (through economic growth). An empire can bring freedom to some whilst enslaving others and steal resources whilst economically developing that region. Britain and Persia are more alike than you'd like to admit
@Tyldesleyite slavery was abolished in the 1800's. During the Acadian deportation period, slavery was legal. Empire enslave other people nations, it enslave nation instead of individual, it is the same. Indeed empire can bring prosperity at some point. History show however that this economic growth was almost always used against the empire to free the annexed nation.
Why a Province in the 1700s, which was African Nova Scotian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Native Nova Scotian, and Scottish (except the French and Native Nova Scotians) were of American Ancestry (Pro Revolutionists) didn't rebel (majorly). We should've joined together and fought off those British bastards, joined with the United States, and told the British to "f*** off!" because of all the hardships the caused us. Demographically, Financially, and Politically.
@Patriote17 ben d'accord avec toi patriote 17... je sais pas ou ce qui prends sa realite unitedempireloyalist, mais si j'aurais ete a la place de mes ancetres j'aurais fais la meme chose qui ont faite dans c'temps la... pis j'pense que les acadiens ont sortis gagnants car on est devenu un pays sans frontieres.... vive le north of new-brunswick!!!!
sorry i thought you were speaking french... as i was saying, the " castle of sir james dunn is about 15 min behind my house..... we go there every weekend....
The Acadians were not deporated because they were French from the Acadia (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia) but because they refused to swear alliegance to His Most Britanic Majesty King George II. Had the Acadians swore alliegance to the King of Great Britian then they would have been left alone and not deported. The Acadians could have avoided this painfull event but stubbornly refused. Believe you me another country would have been inclinded to kill them BTW.
United Empire Loyalist, Thank you for the informative paragraph. But even in the old French Empire, the Acadians were very independent minded. What in the world makes you think they would been any more inclined towards ''His Britannic Majesty'''?? LOL!!!
Had the French Acadians swore alliegance to His Most Britanic Majesty King George II, then they would have recieved the same treatment that the French Canadians got. You see French Canadians were given the Quebec Act of 1774 which gave them Language Rights, Religious Rights and Legal Rights. The Conquered French Canadians were given more rights by their British Conqeorers in history. The French Acadians would have gotten a Similiar Act,, like the Acadia Act of 1774.
The British were very genourous when they conquered their fellow Europeans in the Colonies. The British created the Constittuion Act of 1867, Establishg both English and French as Official Languages of the Dominion of Canada and it's Province of Quebec. The British created the South African Act of 1909, Establishing both English and Dutch as Official Languages of the Union of South Africa. French Language protected in Canada and Dutch Language protected in South Africa.
@UnitedEmpireLoyalist your mentality is stupid, you speak like if it was their own fault because they refused to swear alliegance to the British king, wich means being forced to serve in the British militia against Québec. They are not to blame for their own deportation, the British are responsable...
@UnitedEmpireLoyalist during world war two all you English had to do was to swore alliegance to Hitler, if you would have done it you yould have prevent the German bombing on England, you alone are to blame for the German bombing because you refused to kneel before Hitler (sarcasm). I just say that to make you realize the stupidity of your comment...
1755 : The Acadiens refuse to swear allegiance to the British crown (as it would mean betraying their faith). To make sure these valiant settlers do not leave to reinforce the defenses of Canada, governor Charles Lawrence orders their deportation. The "UNARMED"populace is arrested and loaded onto boats that disperse them in the American colonies. Families are ripped apart, children are taken from their parents and wives from their husbands. No food was on board the death ships.
The Royals are part of the history of the Dominion of Canada. Unlike the United States which was founded and created by British American Rebels (Traitors), the Dominion of Canada was founded and created by British American Loyalists (Heroes). America was established as a Republic while Canada was established as a Monarchy. If you dont like that Canada was created to be a Monarchy then too bad and I will recomend you move to the United States with the rest of the Republican SHIT.
The likes of George Washington, John and Samuel Addams, Thomas Jefferson, George Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, etc were TRAITORS to the their motherland (Great Britian) and to their King (His Most Britanic Majesty King George III). I admire British Americans like William Franklin (Benjamin Franklin's Son) and Thomas Hutchingston who remaind loyal to the Empire and Crown. The British American Loyalist then had to flee up North after the War and founded Canada to be a Monarchy Homeland
The British treated their Colonies in the America's much better then how the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch treated their Colonies. In the British Colonies, the people had Semi-Democracy (Only Rich White Men could vote and run things) and they had Semi-Autonomy with in the British Empire. The Rich White Men voted and elected people to their Legilsatures unlike the other Colonies in the America's. British Americans in my oppion had TOO MUCH FREEDOM back then.
The British had to TAX the British Americans to repay the Debts incured by the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Great Britian was in dire straits and needed money badly. The British Americans were taxed very little compared to their counterparts in Great Britian. Bostonions payed about 10% of the taxes that Londoners were paying.
BTW. Even if with the Tax, British tea was far cheaper then the Black Market Tea that was not taxed. The British Americans had to pay their fair share
Part of was because 1/4 of the Prussian Economy was completely propped up by British subsidies! The British were one of the most taxed people in Europe at the time. Ofcourse the Americans did not want anything to do with that.
The British were much to tollerant of British American Rebels. The British should have hanged all the future founding fathers in the major cities of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Quebec City and Montreal. The British then should have closed their Legislative Assemblies and ran the 13 Colonies by Martial Law. If I was a Royal Governor, I would have declared Martial Law and impose draconian measures to stop the rebellion, The Royal Governments and Military where to soft on Rebels.
The British Americans lost the rights to live free and to have the inherent and inalienable rights of Englishmen when they rebeled against the King and Empire. In the United States today, if a bunch of people rebel against the State and the President and that is HIGH TREASON and the punnishment of High Treason is DEATH. Had the British Americans not rebelled then they should have the inherent and inalienable rights of Englishmen. I hate the treachory by the British Americans.
Well my friend, We are the products of those times. If it weren't for the American War of Independence, maybe my folks would of never immigrated here, who knows? So I owe a debt to General Washington.
Again like I said, why didn't you guys offer a seat at the table in Westminster for representatives from the colonies??
If you did this to all of your colonies, your empire would still be around today.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson where some of history biggest hypocryts. These people preached freedom for all and at the same time supported Slavery and they even ownd Slaves themselves.
If we had offered a few seats at Westminister, do you think they would have been satifisried and they would want more and more before too long.
I wished the British Empire was around today and I hope that the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand form a Superstate one day.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson only freed their slaves after they died. Had they been against Slavery they would have freed their Slaves and abolsihed Slavery in the United States just like how the British Abolished Slaver in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1793 and Lower Canada (Quebec) in 1803.
I believe in a super state called the United States of Greater Britian comprised of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We can rule the world again if we do this.
A United States of Greater Britian (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) would be Political Block, a Military Bloc and an Economic Block. We as a Superstate will no longer bee the lap dogs of the United States and in fact the United States will be our lap dog. We will form a counter-weight to the United States, European Union, People's Republic of China, islamic and Arab World. The United States of Greater Britian will fear nobody and the world will fear us.
I have no problem with putting aside our ancient animosities and work together for a better future for us all as long as we are equals. The United States of Greater Britian and the United States of America can be the top doges in the world and we can and will keep order in a chaotic world. We can be the World's Policemen
Many of our people, many Americans and many outsiders do call us British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders lap dogs of the United States and this a fact.
I am a British-Canadian. I am a descendent of the British American Loyalist who fought for King and Empire against Rebels and Traitors during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). After the defeat of the British and the Loyalists my ancestors fled from New England to Quebec with just the clothes on their backs, they were chased by a Rebel Mob that wanted to lynch and kill them. with my ancestors were lucky because may Loyalists were murdered and tortured after the war.
I used to put U.E. after my name but unfortannly we live in Politically Correct times that would mark you as a out of date Imperialist (Which I am).
I have returned to see the lands that my family once owned and unfortannly it is quite painfull because my ancestors where quite well off and after they fled they never recovered their wealth.
I dont like the Quebecois Seperatists and I believe that Quebec belongs to Canada and that Canada should deport the Seperatist to France.
Loyal French Canadian Quebecois do belong in the Province of Quebec and in the Dominion of Canada, I never said that all of them should be deported back to the Republic of France or to the State of Louisiana, I just support deporting the Quebecois Seperatists back to France or to Louisiana. Like it or not the British won Quebec and Canada fair and square and Quebec belongs to Canada today. Quebec must be restored as a Bilingual and Bicultural Province with both English and French.
Well English used to be an Official Language of the Province fo Quebec along with French but this changed when the Quebecois created Bill 22 (Official Language Act) of 1974 and Bill 101 (Charter of the French Language) of 1977 and illegally and unconstitutionaly removed English as an Official Language and made French it's Sole Official Language. The BNA Act of 1867 declared English and French as Canada's and Quebec's Official Languages. Quebec's Language Laws must be ABOLISHED.
Quebec's Language Laws are in direct Violation of the Constittuion Act of 1867 which made English and French as Canada's and Quebec's Official Languages. The Constittuion Act of 1867 is Canada's Version of the United States Constitution. The Government and Supreme Court dont want to abolish these laws because the Politcans and Judges want the votes of the Quebecois and they fear Quebec Independence. One day these laws will be removed when Quebec looses influence.
The swing voters in Canada are both in the Province of Quebec and in the Western Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The influence of Quebec is waining because it's populaiton is shrinking (Low Birth Rates) and in a couple of decades a lot of the French Canadian population will disapear and when this happens the Canadian Government and Supreme Court will abolish these Fascist Laws and will restore English as an Official Language along with French.
@suryavajra I respect both teams, the Montreal Canadiens of Montreal and the Toronto Maple Leafts of Toronto but honostly I am not a major sports fan. I am more interested in Politics, History, Criminology, etc. My Favourite Sports are 1) Skydiving 2) Basejumping 3) Skieing 4) Snowbording 5) Proffesional Wrestling 6) Dwarf Tossing 7) Boogybording I am not an NFL Fan, I am not a MLB Fan, I am not a NHL Fan, I am not a MLS Fan, I am not a NBA Fan, etc.
You khow who my favourite American Politican was? His name was Leo Ryan (Member of the U.S. House of Representives for California's 11th Congressional District 1973-1978). Congressman Leo Ryan tried to save the people at the Jonestown Compound in Guyana from the clutches of Reverand Jim Jones. Sadly Congressman Leo Ryan failed and was killed along with 4 others and day later the Mass Suicides/Homicides happend in Jonestown Congressman Leo Ryan is the only Congressman to die in duty
Congressman Leo Ryan's aid who survived the massacre was Jackie Speier who succeded the late Tom Lantos as Member of U.S. House of Representives from California's 12th Congressional Disctrict in 2008.
I would have wished that Congressman Leo Ryan could have been President and he would have made a great one (Much better then the idiot in chief today).
Congressman Leo Ryan risked his life to save others (99% of Congress would refuse to do) and he died very bravely in Guyana.
I dont like Barack Obama. The Media was very biased towards him and were biased against both John McCain and Hillary Clinton. I believe that Barack Obama is worse then George W Bush. You have a man who said in the Campaign that he would have transparancy and yet you Bills being forced by Congress in the dead of night. Barack Obama unfairly criticised the Cambridge Massachussetts Police, He did not give much sympathy to the Fort Hood Victims and he is not helping Iran's Democrats.
Yes, He had really disappointed me with everything that has happened thus far. I voted for him thinking indeed that he would bring commonsense change. But as you can see, we are still where we were when we had President Bush.
After George W Bush visted the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood, 1 day after Major Nidal Malik Hassan murdered 13 brave Soldiers and injured dozens. George W Bush came to the Base with no media and comforted the troops and their families. Barack Obama waited 5 days to visit the families of the dead, wounded and the soliders themselves and was not very sympathetic to them. George W Bush in my oppion is a much better person then Barack Obama. George W Bush as a heart unlike Obama.
I dislike the fact that they show the Acadians as unkept people....However, besides poor cinematic choices, I am glad to see something on this lost part of North Americas history. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, knew nothing of my families background, and certainly nothing was told of Acadians and their plight in history, in our world history lessons. I think our survival in this continent for so long, despite Brittains politics of the time, is a testament to our tenacity.
Oregonrockmom 2 days ago
England = Nazi..
80v8camaro 3 weeks ago
@80v8camaro your the same idiot that posted on another video, also claiming englands ties with nazism. Well, as i stated in another reply, its pretty ironic how france were so quick to surrender to the nazis in comparison to britian, yet you claim england, one of the constituent countries of the united kingdom is a nazi state.
SKNews2 3 weeks ago
@SKNews2 Lol your the same idiot that talk again about france.....
80v8camaro 3 weeks ago
@80v8camaro you obviosuly have some sort of connection wit french ancestry, or have another issue to which you have supreme butthurt and feel the need to make an unfounded comment stating that english people have connections with nazism. Its like me saying that saudi arabia is full of christian fundamentalists.
SKNews2 3 weeks ago
@SKNews2 England lost the battle of France too. Thanks to the french who held the germans in Dunkerk the brits had a pretty successful retreat back to the UK.
"The French held 7 german divisions in Lille during 3 days and thus saved at least 100,000 more troops in Dunkerk. England wouldn't have been able to carry on the war without this splendid contribution of the French 1st Army".
Winston Churchil
Now we aren't here to debate about WWII but next time show some respect
daftever 1 week ago
yes they should get rid of all the frenchies today too
AshtrayanConvict 3 weeks ago
so the english created deportation... And you are surprised that the irish and the french hate you so much...
hommechauvesouris 2 months ago
En séparant les femmes et les enfants des hommes après leur avoir volés leurs propriétés les britanniques ont faits à 3 occasions des crimes de guerre digne des nazis et ce 185 auparavant contre des Français de la Nouvelle-France.
Ceux-ci ont été expédiés par bateau aux colonies anglaises et réduit à une forme d'esclavage. affichés comme nom de rue au Canada. ces soldats britanniques font-ils partis des soldats commémorés le onze novembre??
libre20012 2 months ago
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Je me souviens
webbster5296 2 months ago
fuck i love england and its empire
sorrymumanddad12 3 months ago
why they called them acadian? is acadians of french descents?
90scoolll 3 months ago
@90scoolll Because they settled in Acadia, a region encompassing New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and part of Quebec and Maine.
webbster5296 2 months ago
@90scoolll They are called Acadians because those French descents established themselves in Acadia. Acadia was region that included parts of what is know today as New-Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of course this region doesn't exist today officially because of the Acadian deportation which is explained in this video.
richacho1 2 months ago 2
@richacho1 This explains nothing. One English general made the decision to expel the Acadians from their lands simply because they would not pledge themselves to the English King (they had no love of the French King either). The Indians, who hated the English more than the French, threatened to kill the Acadians if they acquiesced. The Acadians were made homeless, but my ancestors eventually arrived in New Orleans sick and destitute and a retired General d'Hautrive helped them, and they thrived.
ctweebee 2 months ago
I live in Louisiana now in the heart of Cajun country and I am in love with the history of the region!
TheHolyMongolEmpire 3 months ago
Vivre La Acadia Francaise, Francoise de La NOVO FRANCE Republique De Amerique de Norte. Angleterre c'est Criminail. La Morte De La Angleterre Criminail Contra De La NOVO Republique Acadiens De La Novo France et de CANADA Novo France Libre et de Rebublique Novo Acadien Francaise Libre et Le Novo France De La Novo France et du CANADA Francoise-Francaise Libre!!!!Vivre Le Generale Loise De MontCalm Francaise-Francoise Novo France De La QUEBEC et du CANADA-Acadien et du Allie Indions de HuronsAllie!
Jules7892 4 months ago
I knew this wonderful acadian woman from New-Brunswick ; hair like the fiery sun and superb green eyes. She was in the process of finding relatives in Louisiana and Australia, searching in family tree and all. I hope she found them.
Robineux99 4 months ago
I find it ironic how i'm both acadian and English then again its ironic how I'm also both Russian and Ukrainian
iheartmyshoes88 5 months ago in playlist Québec
@Hanniboom Edmund O'Callaghan, Wolfred and Robert Nelson, ect, were obviously speaking french, 95% of the Patriotes were "Canadiens-français". The political opponent of the Patriote was the English Party, supported by people like Molson and Mcgill, in a time were the Montreal Gazette was proclaming Anglo-saxon supremacy. The British united the 2 Canadas because they wanted to make the French-Canadian a minority, they knew the majority of English-Canadian were loyalist.
Patriote17 5 months ago
@Hanniboom in fact it's the contrary, the rebellion started in Lower-Canada, Québec. Patriotes wanted total independence they only declare Lower-Canada a republic. Mackenzie men wanted reform, the majority of the people of Upper-Canada, Ontario, were loyalist. In Québec, the Patriotes were the elected government it was a war against a foreign and oppresive army. In Ontario it was civil war between loyalist and reformist, same time, but 2 different thing, they were ally, but not the same people.
Patriote17 5 months ago
Shame on England.
salahidin 5 months ago 12
@salahidin They've given it a day, but they won't admit to their crimes.
ctweebee 2 months ago
These are my people, the Acadians. Yet we still endure, despite the hardships we continue to face.
beautifulnaiad 6 months ago
@beautifulnaiad AGREED. 100 % acadien here
beachlover180 5 months ago
@Hanniboom the Canadian federation of today is the residue of the British empire. The Queen of England is the head of States of Canada and the commander in chief of the Canadian army, just symbol, but it means Canada is British. The Patriotes motto in 1837 was "Notre langue, nos institutions et nos lois". "Notre langue" our language! Singular, not plural. This was their election motto. They created the Saint-Jean Baptiste society, it is still active. Their is no "other ways" to look at history.
Patriote17 7 months ago
Viv la France!!!, mort le Angle!!!.
gerhardmaqui 7 months ago
I don't see what is controversial about this. The majority of the Acadians refused to take the oath of allegiance. Now what would you do if you conquered a place and the people basically admitted that they would be a militia for your enemies if they ever showed up?
Its not as if the French were any different, they just didn't have the population to settle English places. Instead they took they entire population of towns (e.g Deerfield) prisoner and brought them back to Quebec.
RaynauddeChatillon 8 months ago
@RaynauddeChatillon They had no choice. Pledge allegiance to England for to kill their own kin? That's what allegiance to the English Crown would have meant. That and death at the hands of the Indians who hated the English more than the Acadians did. Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence gave the order and his subordinates carried it out under duress. It was the first ethnic cleansing in the New World.
ctweebee 2 months ago
@ctweebee
And it was necessary. As I said, the French would have done the same, they just didn't have the population to do so. They often raided English towns (such as Deerfield) and forts (such as Fort Massachusetts) with their savage allies, massacred people, and carried the survivors off to Montreal as prisoners. Often those prisoners weren't given the luxury of remaining with their families and were sent to live with Indians.
RaynauddeChatillon 2 months ago
@RaynauddeChatillon The Acadians were a people. Montreal wasn't their capital. The English kept taking over their settlements. Deporting them for political purposes was harsh. When the British took the fake moral high ground during the American Revolution by abolishing slavery, they offered freedom to any slave that joined the British and settled them in Nova Scotia. Was that necessary? It was hypocritical, especially since many Acadians were sent to the Carolinas and put in the fields.
ctweebee 2 months ago
@ctweebee
No that isn't hypocritical at all. Those African slaves agreed to fight for the British so it is only fitting that they should be rewarded for their services. On the other hand, the Acadians made it clear that they couldn't be trusted to not act as an auxiliary force for the French. Therefore the most logical thing the British could do was to deport them. As I said, the French would have done the same thing, and what are the Acadians, but French people who lived in Nova Scotia.
RaynauddeChatillon 2 months ago
this is gay
teddybearbelanger 8 months ago
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@Patriote17 I am of Metis(mixed blood) as well but I have also German from 1774 settled in Sillery, QC moved to Montreal, QC 1896 mixed with Norwegian Paternal (German+Norwegian) Maternal (Irish+ French Canadian/ Mohawk. The Mohawks were not the death knell of the Huron! The Church killed off the Huron or rather the priests did. They carried diseases from Europe that they were immune to but the Huron weren't . So many Huron died. So many that they could not resist the attacks of the Mohawk .
richardhummell2497 9 months ago
@Patriote17 The Mohawk were responding to the raids made by Huron, Ottawa, Abenake and Sauk/Fox on the Mohawk trap lines and hunting areas. If the Mohawk were intent on the annihilation of the Huron why didn't they wipe out the Salk or the Fox - smaller tribes easily overrun by a large War Party of Mohawk. The Mohawk took prisoners but treated them humanly as they wanted to be treated. Some were taught the Mohawk Language and ways and some were allowed to become Blood Brothers to Mohawk Family
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richardhummell2497 9 months ago
The English invented the first ethnic purification in Acadia and the first concentration camp during the Boers war! This is the English civilisation!
espoire1757 9 months ago
does anybody know what exact year this took place ? PLEASE HELP. <3.
pinkynjashie 9 months ago
woaah ! im actually with the Brtish because look what the French did to the Natives.
pinkynjashie 9 months ago
Faut le faire quand meme! Une tentative de génocide sur sa propre population qui voulait demeurer neutre dans le conflit entre la France et l'Angleterre. La rapacité anglosaxonne est infinie...
flownet07 9 months ago
As tragic as this is, I can honestly say that I'm glade that some Acadians either escaped the deportation or came back in 1763. They truley are wonderful, friendly people, and I'm glad that my uncle by marraige is Acadian (though you'd never be able to tell that), as well as my barber, and the Teacher and T.A.. Even if I am of British descent, I really do love the Acadian people, and I am thankful that they still live in New Brunswick.
RocaDeearCenjar 10 months ago
yes death rate illegal genocide - - surpressed indians and catholics and french - stole our land and caused war all over the wolrd and - -Britts even dragged the people of canada into war --- hummm - who is worse English Loyalist or Hitler - - atleast with hitler it was a much more faster death -------it is no wonder why the french want a place of there own and the indians - catholics
StJamesapostle 10 months ago
Ca me donne la nausee de voir un Quebecois se meler de l'hisoire de mon peuple.... comme si il savait ce qui se passe par icite!!!
SVP mele pas mon peuple dans tes hate speechs.
Panzeux 10 months ago
@patgarrett5755 I agree!! The Natives were there before everybody! But why are the french being slandered? There is other french the Quebec french!
andymica 10 months ago
@andymica the English did not name this war the French and Indian war for fun. 90% of the natives were our allies, many people in New-France were Métis. Our ancestors fighted only to stop the English expension in the Ohio valley, it was Natives land according to the Great peace of 1701.
Patriote17 10 months ago
Vive le Quebec libre!!
niko4475 10 months ago
And Haiti is a product of France....
divinefart 1 year ago
Frog pussies, have not beaten the british in over 600 years, they start fights they cannot finish, and then claim being the victim whenever get their asses handed to them.
divinefart 1 year ago
@divinefart We're "Horny Toads" get it right asshole
BadBoyofRock 10 months ago
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Get the fuck out of cananda! You lost the war, you cost to much your not wanted parasitic french castaways
divinefart 1 year ago
@divinefart What the fuck is your problem sir?
DanielRemains 1 year ago
@divinefart Just too give you a bit of history, the Mic mac and French were in Canada before the english.
andymica 11 months ago
@divinefart
Please go on showing everybody you're a deep deep imbecile. even your name shows you're fecal matter.
Robineux99 4 months ago
British ruined everything in Nova Scotia with the Acadian Deportation. The Acadians, Blacks, Germans, Irish, Native Indians, and Scottish. All in harmony. When the Acadians, Irish, and Scottish used to burn Protestant Churches, at Mass they used to read a Protestant Prayer in German for them (learned in book I'm currently reading). Blacks and Native Indians were treated with respect. Mathieu De Costa worked with fellow Blacks and translated Native Indian speech into French for them. FT British.
Ian74263 1 year ago
Compassion pour les souffrances vécues par les Acadiens de leur déportation à nos jours.
69deus 1 year ago
they barely**
MrShawn016 1 year ago
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the french (quebec) should be shipped out of canada.. they are a pain and they almost deserve a piece of canada.
MrShawn016 1 year ago
@MrShawn016
Ya we tried to separate already. That's when hundreds of bullshiters from the ROC showed up in school busses waving canadian flags crying..please stay! Don't go!
Robineux99 4 months ago
The British were acting cruel and horribly towards the French people from Canada. They had no right to evict them from their own land! I guess the French didn't have enough back-up to overcome them right at the spot. So sad this had to happen
ispyonu20 1 year ago
im acadian and fuck those 1755 anglishs
R3dTigerM40A3 1 year ago
J'ai oublié de demander ... Comment est-ce lié à l'histoire du Québec? C'est l'histoire n'est pas l'histoire du Québec, c'est l'histoire de la Nouvelle-Écosse.
Ian74263 1 year ago
@Ian74263 1 million de Québécois sont d'origine Acadienne...
Patriote17 1 year ago 8
@Patriote17 maudits anglais...
VandeeArmagnac 11 months ago
Imagine if the Acadians weren't treated so poorly and if Riel wasn't screwed over, there would be a lot more Francophones in Canada.
MajBlood 1 year ago
les crisses d'anglais y'ont voler nos terres !
AcadieTounes 1 year ago
The Brits are murdering cunts, there isn't a race they haven't oppressed or stolen from. The biggest terrorist since time began is the British.
jefftipps 1 year ago
@jefftipps amen..
even to their own people! loo at what they did to the thirteen colonies before and during the american revolution
kyle887923 1 year ago
@kyle887923 Tell me about it, i'm from Belfast Ireland and have lived through most of the modern conflict. Erin Go Brach
jefftipps 1 year ago
@jefftipps they're the anti-christ to freedom and the mothers to opression
to much is never enough for them..
for hundreds of years Britian has opressed people, stole their land and resources, enslaved and murdered their people and people who settled their and then deserted them after they made a mess
eg. Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, France, India, Egypt..the list goes on and on and on
kyle887923 1 year ago
@kyle887923 Yea so did every other imperialist nation: Romans, Arabs, Chinese, British, French, German, American...the list goes on and on. Basically every empire has its history bathed in the blood of the innocent.
SharkanKuthoshqea 1 year ago
@SharkanKuthoshqea well, you have a point but not all the empires were based on the extent of the evil that the British introduced to the world. The British definitly brought a new dimention to the word EVIL.
The Persian empire at 500 BC (the biggest empire of ancient time) was for instance based on a model of tolerance and freedom for all the 28 nations subject to the central government. There are only a few such examples in the history but it proves the point: No evil empire can be justified.
Mehranrokh 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh I'm not going to attempt to make out that the British Empire was a good thing but I think your use of the word EVIL for the institution as a whole is too absolute to give a full appreciation of what was done. Certainly horrific things were done (to the Boers, the Indians etc.) but British world dominance was very much a double-edged sword. The Indians had elements of their culture attacked by us, but that also included suttee. The British navy eliminated the trans-Atlantice slave...
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Tyldesleyite if you are English you obiviously see the good thing of the British empire, but the people of Québec, Acadia, the Natives and even the people of Ireland will only see see the bad thing of the British empire. We don't see history from the same perspective. There is still a poltical conflict related to those thing in Québec, Acadia and Ireland. When those political conflict will be over, maybe people will see history from a different perspective.
Patriote17 1 year ago
@Patriote17 I agree with you completely, my friend. My comments were directed not at people who say that the British system did terrible things (it most certainly did) but at the two posters who said that the British Empire was the 'anti-Christ of freedom' and a 'new dimension of evil'. I was simply saying that Britain does have guilt because of the Empire but that it was not alone and certainly was not the worst by a long shot.
Thank you for uploading these videos by the way.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
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Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Patriote17 I definitely wasn't trying to say that the Empire was a good thing overall but that it happened and has both elements of both good and bad, neither of which should be ignored. I certainly wouldn't expect the Irish, Acadians and Boers to readily acknowledge those elements of good when they suffered so much of the bad.
Again thanks for uploading the videos on the other battles of the French and Indian War. We never got a DVD release of that documentary on Region 2.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh ...trade. How can you claim that the Persian Empire was a model of tolerance and freedom when it practiced slavery throughout its existence? When Britain brutally defeated the Boers and the Canadians they didn't enslave them afterwards. Frankly, its absurd to compare a product of the 18th and 19th centuries to a Biblical Empire anyway, but Britain practised tolerance when it suited them for the same reason as Persia. Not because of 'goodness', but to control masses with a few.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Tyldesleyite dont put words into my mouth. I never said Persians were angels throughout the history, as a matter of fact I made it totally specific. I said the persian Achaemenid Empire at 500 BC was a model of tolerance and respect for other cultures, read about it and u will see what I am talking about. Brought it up as an example to reject this old claim that being in power makes being evil inevitable. Quite typical english strategy to use this argument to justify all the shit in history.
Mehranrokh 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh I have not justified any 'shit' in history, read my posts. I have acknowledged my country's historical crimes and pointed out that we are not alone and that nearly every other nation has similar burdens to bear. I HAVE NEVER ONCE said that being in power makes being evil inevitable, and my point about the Persians was specific to the Achaemenid Empire. Achaemenid tolerance was not based on morality but the need for order. Cultural tolerance in return for submission.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh Now as to the words from your mouth:
"The British definitly brought a new dimention to the word EVIL"
No, we didn't. Evil things were done but no new dimension. Conquering territory (since the Sumerians), Forced expulsion/migration of conquered population (since Charlemagne with the Saxons, and probably way before), replacing the elites in another country (Romans, Greeks), concentration camps (1830s USA), rape murder theft (any army/country in history), etc, etc.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh And the other words I disagreed with:
"The Persian empire at 500 BC (the biggest empire of ancient time) was for instance based on a model of tolerance and freedom for all the 28 nations subject to the central government."
Cultural tolerance and freedom but not political freedom, but only as a means of maintaining order and control. How is that a 'model of tolerance and respect'? Toleration to prevent dissent to domination? A bit like the British Empire in India then.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Tyldesleyite The British might not be the first to slave nations or systematic rape or forced imigrations or concentration camps, but british did alot of shit all at the same time and in sum to an extent unseen be4 and in all 4 corners of the world. BTW, dont even think of camparing britains imperialitic behaviour to the persian empire of the achaemenids. The british conquered in intension of stealing resources, while the achaemenids brought freedom and prosperity, do a reserach and u ll see.
Mehranrokh 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh To me the increase in scale is not really a 'new dimension to evil' but a new dimension to empire building, mainly down to technology and a population explosion. It might seem like I'm splitting hairs but although the difference might seem subtle it is important. I don't think it helps to use overly-dramatic and erroneous statements when discussing history. I think you're being a little disingenuous with your last statement. The 28 nations of the Achaemenid Empire did not become...
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh ..a part of that Empire because they wanted to be part of the 'Achaemenid Freedom and Tolerance'. They were conquered. I have in fact read about the Achaemenid Empire and therefore I will go so far as to think about comparing them (gasp) some more. The British Empire generally committed its moral outrages whilst conquering a territory or whilst putting down revolts. I am sure that you are aware of the violence which the Persian Army committed whilst conquering territory but are...
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh ...also aware of the brutal measures with which the Achaemenids put down revolts within their empire? If we take the period you suggested (approx 500BC) in the time of Darius I, we see horrific violence used to put down revolts and punish those responsible. He impaled Babylonian rebels amongst others as recorded on the Behistun Inscription, and leaders were mutilated and displayed before their impalement. It therefore amuses me to read your rose-tinted view of the Achaemenids...
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh ...who one dare not compare to the evil and villainous British. I reiterate what I said before. The relative tolerance and limited freedom granted to subject peoples in the Achaemenid was done for political and not moral reasons. The Achaemenids were also just as capable as Britain of committing atrocities whilst conquering and putting down revolts in that territory. Britain often granted relisious and political freedom to conquered peoples as a means of maintaining their hold on...
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh ...that territory. After brutally defeating the Boers, they were given political freedom and what followed was prosperity for them (if not the blacks). After brutally defeating New France, the French Canadians were given a number of freedoms (including religious) by Britain. Why? Because it made sound political sense which is identical to the motivation of the Achaemenids in their toleration and granting of limited freedom to subject nations.
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Mehranrokh "The british conquered in intension of stealing resources, while the achaemenids brought freedom and prosperity"
To sum up, the Achaemenids conquered territory with the intention of gaining resources, while the British brought freedom (by ending the slave trade) and prosperity (through economic growth). An empire can bring freedom to some whilst enslaving others and steal resources whilst economically developing that region. Britain and Persia are more alike than you'd like to admit
Tyldesleyite 1 year ago
@Tyldesleyite slavery was abolished in the 1800's. During the Acadian deportation period, slavery was legal. Empire enslave other people nations, it enslave nation instead of individual, it is the same. Indeed empire can bring prosperity at some point. History show however that this economic growth was almost always used against the empire to free the annexed nation.
Patriote17 1 year ago
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americrevolutwar1777 1 year ago
quelle tristesse...
soyez fiers, frères acadiens et cadiens !
isjackal 1 year ago
Funny, you can find all these 'Arcadians' cooking up jambalaya and crayfish stew in Louisiana.
jkoff76 1 year ago
@jkoff76 damn right you can it some good food to yeanh ;)
misfits765 1 year ago
acadia was burning! ACT OF WAR!
1988scottcarey 1 year ago
Why a Province in the 1700s, which was African Nova Scotian, French, German, Irish, Italian, Native Nova Scotian, and Scottish (except the French and Native Nova Scotians) were of American Ancestry (Pro Revolutionists) didn't rebel (majorly). We should've joined together and fought off those British bastards, joined with the United States, and told the British to "f*** off!" because of all the hardships the caused us. Demographically, Financially, and Politically.
Ian74263 1 year ago
@Ian74263
You seem to be a bit mixed up with ancestries but about the alliance to kick the british out you are right.
Robineux99 4 months ago
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Ian74263 1 year ago
Why quebec we are not quebecois WE ARE NOT QUEBECOIS....WE ARE NOT PART OF QUEBEC HISTORY
TheAdanrom 1 year ago 2
im acadan but my family got lucky and were hiding in Prince Edward Island during the deportation
stephenjamesdunn 1 year ago
@stephenjamesdunn est-ce que tu parles français?
Patriote17 1 year ago
@Patriote17 ben d'accord avec toi patriote 17... je sais pas ou ce qui prends sa realite unitedempireloyalist, mais si j'aurais ete a la place de mes ancetres j'aurais fais la meme chose qui ont faite dans c'temps la... pis j'pense que les acadiens ont sortis gagnants car on est devenu un pays sans frontieres.... vive le north of new-brunswick!!!!
MrAcadien30 1 year ago
@Patriote17 vivre l Acadie!
renebourque 1 year ago
@stephenjamesdunn
le chalet de sir james dunn est juste en arriere de chez moi!!!!
MrAcadien30 1 year ago
@stephenjamesdunn
sorry i thought you were speaking french... as i was saying, the " castle of sir james dunn is about 15 min behind my house..... we go there every weekend....
MrAcadien30 1 year ago
Pourquoi cette partie de l'histoire du Québec est elle racontée en anglais ?
SSIDID 1 year ago
Im British and Acadian mixed, I gotta say I like being English more lol but Acadia is nice
M1dnightSou1 1 year ago
@M1dnightSou1 it's natural to join the "conqueror side lol. And denied your other side
brazeau2009 1 year ago
today it would be a crime against humanity
darkalex211 1 year ago
Brits invented ethnic cleansing... 0:37
What a bunch of bastards !
MaxRWF 1 year ago
@MaxRWF Ethnic cleansing is a lot older than that. Remember
that Rome wiped out the Carthaginians, threw down the
city and salted the ground. People have been acting
bastardly ever since we've had history.
rangerbobcat 1 year ago
Hey I'm Acadian!
tyniehawk 1 year ago
@tyniehawk Same with me! :) My family is from Port Royal!!! Were is yours from???
spiritgirl2796 1 year ago
@tyniehawk SAME HERE!!!
jm0n55 1 year ago
@tyniehawk tu es acadien plutot
brazeau2009 1 year ago
Aboriginals aren't called Indians it's disrespectful of their skin colour and religion
kg91997 2 years ago
Thank you Acadians, for your help in the American Revolution!
suryavajra 2 years ago
What these people suffered through back is unimaginable.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The Acadians were not deporated because they were French from the Acadia (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia) but because they refused to swear alliegance to His Most Britanic Majesty King George II. Had the Acadians swore alliegance to the King of Great Britian then they would have been left alone and not deported. The Acadians could have avoided this painfull event but stubbornly refused. Believe you me another country would have been inclinded to kill them BTW.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
United Empire Loyalist, Thank you for the informative paragraph. But even in the old French Empire, the Acadians were very independent minded. What in the world makes you think they would been any more inclined towards ''His Britannic Majesty'''?? LOL!!!
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
Had the French Acadians swore alliegance to His Most Britanic Majesty King George II, then they would have recieved the same treatment that the French Canadians got. You see French Canadians were given the Quebec Act of 1774 which gave them Language Rights, Religious Rights and Legal Rights. The Conquered French Canadians were given more rights by their British Conqeorers in history. The French Acadians would have gotten a Similiar Act,, like the Acadia Act of 1774.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
But the Acadia was conquered earlier and may not have gotten the same agreement.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The British were very genourous when they conquered their fellow Europeans in the Colonies. The British created the Constittuion Act of 1867, Establishg both English and French as Official Languages of the Dominion of Canada and it's Province of Quebec. The British created the South African Act of 1909, Establishing both English and Dutch as Official Languages of the Union of South Africa. French Language protected in Canada and Dutch Language protected in South Africa.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
@UnitedEmpireLoyalist your mentality is stupid, you speak like if it was their own fault because they refused to swear alliegance to the British king, wich means being forced to serve in the British militia against Québec. They are not to blame for their own deportation, the British are responsable...
Patriote17 1 year ago
@UnitedEmpireLoyalist during world war two all you English had to do was to swore alliegance to Hitler, if you would have done it you yould have prevent the German bombing on England, you alone are to blame for the German bombing because you refused to kneel before Hitler (sarcasm). I just say that to make you realize the stupidity of your comment...
Patriote17 1 year ago 10
1755 : The Acadiens refuse to swear allegiance to the British crown (as it would mean betraying their faith). To make sure these valiant settlers do not leave to reinforce the defenses of Canada, governor Charles Lawrence orders their deportation. The "UNARMED"populace is arrested and loaded onto boats that disperse them in the American colonies. Families are ripped apart, children are taken from their parents and wives from their husbands. No food was on board the death ships.
asterixredbull 1 year ago
I almost threw up when the ROYALS visited Canada not too long ago.....fuckers
BadBoyofRock 2 years ago
@BadBoyofRock
The Royals are part of the history of the Dominion of Canada. Unlike the United States which was founded and created by British American Rebels (Traitors), the Dominion of Canada was founded and created by British American Loyalists (Heroes). America was established as a Republic while Canada was established as a Monarchy. If you dont like that Canada was created to be a Monarchy then too bad and I will recomend you move to the United States with the rest of the Republican SHIT.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Wrong. The United States were formed by real Patriots.
We may disagree on this, but I say, LONG LIVE THE REPUBLICAN ORDER!!!!
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The likes of George Washington, John and Samuel Addams, Thomas Jefferson, George Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, etc were TRAITORS to the their motherland (Great Britian) and to their King (His Most Britanic Majesty King George III). I admire British Americans like William Franklin (Benjamin Franklin's Son) and Thomas Hutchingston who remaind loyal to the Empire and Crown. The British American Loyalist then had to flee up North after the War and founded Canada to be a Monarchy Homeland
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
George Washington the Liberator of the Colonies is my hero and a patriot to his home and native land. That is America.
If you only offered the Americans fair representation in Westminster than that awful war need not have happened in the first place.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The British treated their Colonies in the America's much better then how the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch treated their Colonies. In the British Colonies, the people had Semi-Democracy (Only Rich White Men could vote and run things) and they had Semi-Autonomy with in the British Empire. The Rich White Men voted and elected people to their Legilsatures unlike the other Colonies in the America's. British Americans in my oppion had TOO MUCH FREEDOM back then.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Too much freedom. you guys really clamped down with the Tax Act, the Townshend Duties and the Intolerable Acts.
If anything if you gave a place at the table not just to the White man, but the Colored Man, there still would be an Empire today.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The British had to TAX the British Americans to repay the Debts incured by the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Great Britian was in dire straits and needed money badly. The British Americans were taxed very little compared to their counterparts in Great Britian. Bostonions payed about 10% of the taxes that Londoners were paying.
BTW. Even if with the Tax, British tea was far cheaper then the Black Market Tea that was not taxed. The British Americans had to pay their fair share
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Part of was because 1/4 of the Prussian Economy was completely propped up by British subsidies! The British were one of the most taxed people in Europe at the time. Ofcourse the Americans did not want anything to do with that.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The British were much to tollerant of British American Rebels. The British should have hanged all the future founding fathers in the major cities of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Quebec City and Montreal. The British then should have closed their Legislative Assemblies and ran the 13 Colonies by Martial Law. If I was a Royal Governor, I would have declared Martial Law and impose draconian measures to stop the rebellion, The Royal Governments and Military where to soft on Rebels.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
That sounds like Totalitarianism. What happened to the inherent and inalienable rights of an Englishman?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The British Americans lost the rights to live free and to have the inherent and inalienable rights of Englishmen when they rebeled against the King and Empire. In the United States today, if a bunch of people rebel against the State and the President and that is HIGH TREASON and the punnishment of High Treason is DEATH. Had the British Americans not rebelled then they should have the inherent and inalienable rights of Englishmen. I hate the treachory by the British Americans.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Well my friend, We are the products of those times. If it weren't for the American War of Independence, maybe my folks would of never immigrated here, who knows? So I owe a debt to General Washington.
Again like I said, why didn't you guys offer a seat at the table in Westminster for representatives from the colonies??
If you did this to all of your colonies, your empire would still be around today.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson where some of history biggest hypocryts. These people preached freedom for all and at the same time supported Slavery and they even ownd Slaves themselves.
If we had offered a few seats at Westminister, do you think they would have been satifisried and they would want more and more before too long.
I wished the British Empire was around today and I hope that the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand form a Superstate one day.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
All they wanted was a seat at the table. As for the slaves, Washington and Jefferson freed many of their slaves, I believe.
I don't have as much affection for the British Empire, perhaps given my past history? Hard to say....
Good luck if you do decide to be a Superstate. I hope the EU will give you all permission..haha!
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson only freed their slaves after they died. Had they been against Slavery they would have freed their Slaves and abolsihed Slavery in the United States just like how the British Abolished Slaver in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1793 and Lower Canada (Quebec) in 1803.
I believe in a super state called the United States of Greater Britian comprised of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We can rule the world again if we do this.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Why do you want to ''rule the world?''
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
A United States of Greater Britian (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) would be Political Block, a Military Bloc and an Economic Block. We as a Superstate will no longer bee the lap dogs of the United States and in fact the United States will be our lap dog. We will form a counter-weight to the United States, European Union, People's Republic of China, islamic and Arab World. The United States of Greater Britian will fear nobody and the world will fear us.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Who says you are our lap dogs now?? If anything all of these countries are trusted American allies.
Why not put aside our ancient animosities and work together for a better future for us all?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
I have no problem with putting aside our ancient animosities and work together for a better future for us all as long as we are equals. The United States of Greater Britian and the United States of America can be the top doges in the world and we can and will keep order in a chaotic world. We can be the World's Policemen
Many of our people, many Americans and many outsiders do call us British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders lap dogs of the United States and this a fact.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Ofcourse. Equal respect for mutually-shared interests.
I certainly would not like to take any country who chooses to ally with us for granted.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@UnitedEmpireLoyalist not to mention they both helped the british defeat the french in north america and then fight the british
kyle887923 1 year ago
Judging from your profile, you are a Canadian are you not??
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
I am a British-Canadian. I am a descendent of the British American Loyalist who fought for King and Empire against Rebels and Traitors during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). After the defeat of the British and the Loyalists my ancestors fled from New England to Quebec with just the clothes on their backs, they were chased by a Rebel Mob that wanted to lynch and kill them. with my ancestors were lucky because may Loyalists were murdered and tortured after the war.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Now I see. Do you put the initials U.E. by your surname as the old Loyalists??
I'm sorry to hear about your ancestors. Ofcourse by now, you are more than free to come back, if you choose?
And since you are Canadian do you have any close connection to Les Quebecois and the Acadians as they are your countrymen as Canadians?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
I used to put U.E. after my name but unfortannly we live in Politically Correct times that would mark you as a out of date Imperialist (Which I am).
I have returned to see the lands that my family once owned and unfortannly it is quite painfull because my ancestors where quite well off and after they fled they never recovered their wealth.
I dont like the Quebecois Seperatists and I believe that Quebec belongs to Canada and that Canada should deport the Seperatist to France.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
But they have every right to be in Canada, don't they?? Wasn't the name Canada itself, a French name?
So where exactly were your ancestors from?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
Loyal French Canadian Quebecois do belong in the Province of Quebec and in the Dominion of Canada, I never said that all of them should be deported back to the Republic of France or to the State of Louisiana, I just support deporting the Quebecois Seperatists back to France or to Louisiana. Like it or not the British won Quebec and Canada fair and square and Quebec belongs to Canada today. Quebec must be restored as a Bilingual and Bicultural Province with both English and French.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
But isn't it a Bilingual and bi cultural province today??
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
Well English used to be an Official Language of the Province fo Quebec along with French but this changed when the Quebecois created Bill 22 (Official Language Act) of 1974 and Bill 101 (Charter of the French Language) of 1977 and illegally and unconstitutionaly removed English as an Official Language and made French it's Sole Official Language. The BNA Act of 1867 declared English and French as Canada's and Quebec's Official Languages. Quebec's Language Laws must be ABOLISHED.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Well how can you do this, if this had been revoked through a democratic and parliamentary process?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
Quebec's Language Laws are in direct Violation of the Constittuion Act of 1867 which made English and French as Canada's and Quebec's Official Languages. The Constittuion Act of 1867 is Canada's Version of the United States Constitution. The Government and Supreme Court dont want to abolish these laws because the Politcans and Judges want the votes of the Quebecois and they fear Quebec Independence. One day these laws will be removed when Quebec looses influence.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
I see. So let me see if I get this right...Are the Quebecois the swing voters in Canada that can make or break governments?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
The swing voters in Canada are both in the Province of Quebec and in the Western Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The influence of Quebec is waining because it's populaiton is shrinking (Low Birth Rates) and in a couple of decades a lot of the French Canadian population will disapear and when this happens the Canadian Government and Supreme Court will abolish these Fascist Laws and will restore English as an Official Language along with French.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
okay, I see.
So what about these Western Provinces? Is there greater population growth over there?
suryavajra 2 years ago
btw, on a lighter note, Are you a Montreal Canadiens fan?? lol!
suryavajra 2 years ago
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
I see. Well I'm a politics and history aficionado my self, so I'm sure we will have a lot to talk about in the future!
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
You khow who my favourite American Politican was? His name was Leo Ryan (Member of the U.S. House of Representives for California's 11th Congressional District 1973-1978). Congressman Leo Ryan tried to save the people at the Jonestown Compound in Guyana from the clutches of Reverand Jim Jones. Sadly Congressman Leo Ryan failed and was killed along with 4 others and day later the Mass Suicides/Homicides happend in Jonestown Congressman Leo Ryan is the only Congressman to die in duty
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Yes, I know of him. He comes from a nearby district of my own. He is indeed a great hero of California and a hero of the United States.
He certainly did not deserve to die there. I believe that his aid, who was shot at Jonestown is in California politics today.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
Congressman Leo Ryan's aid who survived the massacre was Jackie Speier who succeded the late Tom Lantos as Member of U.S. House of Representives from California's 12th Congressional Disctrict in 2008.
I would have wished that Congressman Leo Ryan could have been President and he would have made a great one (Much better then the idiot in chief today).
Congressman Leo Ryan risked his life to save others (99% of Congress would refuse to do) and he died very bravely in Guyana.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Yes he sure did.
You are absolutely right there.
So let me ask you. What don't you like about the current President of the United States?
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
I dont like Barack Obama. The Media was very biased towards him and were biased against both John McCain and Hillary Clinton. I believe that Barack Obama is worse then George W Bush. You have a man who said in the Campaign that he would have transparancy and yet you Bills being forced by Congress in the dead of night. Barack Obama unfairly criticised the Cambridge Massachussetts Police, He did not give much sympathy to the Fort Hood Victims and he is not helping Iran's Democrats.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago
Yes, He had really disappointed me with everything that has happened thus far. I voted for him thinking indeed that he would bring commonsense change. But as you can see, we are still where we were when we had President Bush.
suryavajra 2 years ago
@suryavajra
After George W Bush visted the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood, 1 day after Major Nidal Malik Hassan murdered 13 brave Soldiers and injured dozens. George W Bush came to the Base with no media and comforted the troops and their families. Barack Obama waited 5 days to visit the families of the dead, wounded and the soliders themselves and was not very sympathetic to them. George W Bush in my oppion is a much better person then Barack Obama. George W Bush as a heart unlike Obama.
UnitedEmpireLoyalist 2 years ago