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.
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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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