From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:08:06 -0700
You should really cut back on your coffee consumption.
Jim Yarker wrote:
and then all that's left is putting paid to the racist feeb lesson-givers
whose collecitivity bears the overwhelming responsibitiy for genocide in
the Canadian space, including against French Canadians, so that they'll
fuck off once and for all, after giving themselves their last medal for
telling a Québécois what a racist they are in "French" (how
understanding!), after collecting their bac at a lesson-giver university
based on English privilege, after doing fuck-all to fight for francophone
rights in lesson-giver land. All that's left is to figure out how the
human rights imperialists can be inspired to fuck off once and for all.
Oh, how to decolonize from the decolonizers....
From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:51:14 -0700
Get rid of all of em, French or English Colonialist! Now you're getting
it! No celebrations of genocide!
Macdonald
Jim Yarker wrote:
or "McGill" University. Or rue "McGill", named for the racist
land-grabbers of the farms of les Patriotes, and who advocated fascistic
repression of their struggle. Or "Moncton", named after one of the
principal génocidaires of the Acaadians. Or chemin "Craig" which
traverses many francophone munipalities and all the place names based on
the executioners of the les Patriotes. And "Dorchester" and "Wolfe",
"Durham", "Sir George William" (of "Sir George William College" faime at
Concordia). Unlike English Canadian asshole pontificators, French
Canadians are quite used to seeing the names of those who conquered
them, lorded over them, committed genocide on them etc honoured in
public place names in their own country. And absurdly, they're supposed
to take lessons from their conquerors' collectivity, which they'll never
do, whether they're coming from the likes of the Trudeau Institute, the
Montreal Gazette, Maoists for Canadian Unity, or "rabble."ca.
http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=275
The Deportation of the Acadians
Tension and mistrust arising from the war between New France and 13
English colonies led to the expulsion of the Acadians. The British
thought the Acadians were a threat to appropriation of the land.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Living successively under French and then British rule (in 1604 and
1713, respectively), the Acadians were often forced to adapt. And when
the British conquered Port Royal in 1710 after being ceded Acadia under
the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, they found themselves up against a
people who had developed a strong sense of independence against British
and French rule. The Acadians initially refused to recognize British
rule, wanting to keep their religious freedom and not wanting to be
obliged to bears arms in the event of war. These conditions were
accepted only in 1730 and, at that point, the Acadians were recognized
as neutral subjects within the colony.
SUMMARY OF THE CONFLICT
Wanting to settle permanently in the colony, the English founded the
city of Halifax in 1749 to reduce the influence of Louisbourg. The new
capital city would not need to be dependent on the Acadians for supplies
and it could serve as the landing site for new Protestant colonists -
and significant troops of soldiers. This military deployment made the
Acadians nervous; some of them left for the west of Nova Scotia and
others went as far as Prince Edward Island. In 1753, Charles Lawrence
was appointed governor of Nova Scotia. Not trusting the Acadians, whom
he believed were in cahoots with Natives, he threatened them with
deportation to France if they refused to take the oath of allegiance to
the British Crown, despite their status as a politically and
commercially neutral people, both in terms of the British and the
French. He petitioned the colony's court and was granted permission by
the top court to carry out his threats. The decision was made easier by
the fact that while most Acadians were neutral, some had already taken
up arms for France. On July 28, 1755, Lawrence ordered his men to start
arresting Acadians with a view to deporting them. But it took until
September 5 of that year for Charles Lawrence to gather the Acadians in
the St. Charles Church in Grand Pre in order to read the declaration
that they must relinquish their possessions to the British Crown and
that they would be deported. Unaware of what awaited them in the church,
many Acadians were taken prisoner and deported to American colonies,
France, and England, and many died during the long ocean voyage. The
survivors roamed, looking for a new place to call home. In 1763, after
the Seven Year War and the signing of the peace treaty, some Acadians
returned to Nova Scotia, only to find that they no longer owned land; it
had been redistributed to Protestant settlers. In all, several thousand
Acadians died during deportation: of illness, drowning, misery and
starvation.
Concepts
Acadian
The Acadians are the descendants of the first French colonists who
settled in what are today the Maritime provinces, and they developed a
cultural independence that is recognized to this day.
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty signed in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, to end the hostilities
between France and England after Spain's Civil War. Spain was the enemy
of France and of a coalition of European countries, including England.
England benefited most from the agreements, as France ceded
Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson's Bay and St. Christopher's Island in the
West Indies.
Deportation
The forced expulsion of one or several people from a place and their
relocation to a different place.
From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>
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Jim Yarker wrote:
d-of hardships. [...]
But the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, owes its name to the British
officer Robert Monckton, who was active in Acadia from 1755 to 1758
and in the Quebec City region during the siege of that city by Wolfe
in 1759.
The act of naming the city after this soldier raises serious social,
political, and ethical problems. As a soldier in Acadia and the Quebec
City area, Monckton committed terrible acts of great cruelty which are
the equivalent of genocide, crimes against peace, war crimes and
crimes against humanity in the sense that we recognize and label them
today.
Fair enough. Let us get rid of all the colonial names available...
There are many, many throughout the "Maritimes" and Québec. We could
start with the Cartier bridge, for example.
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