Talk:Two Solitudes (Canadian society)

Possible References to be used

Governing the Island of Montreal : language differences and metropolitan politics - Berkeley : University of California Press, p13 c1985. ISBN: 0520049063

The renaissance of impasse: from the age of Carlyle, Emerson, and Melville .By Jean-François Leroux P. Lang, p15 c2004 ISBN: 0820469378

The Future of North America : Canada, the United States and Quebec nationalism edited by Elliot J. Feldman, Neil Nevitte - Cambridge, Mass. : Centre for International Affairs p65 c1979 ISBN: 0876740468

Service in the field: the world of front-line public servants By Barbara Wake Carroll, David Siegel - Institute of Public Administration of Canada. p129, c1999 ISBN: 0773517952

The carnivalization of politics: Quebec cartoons on relations with Canada . By Raymond N. Morris - McGill-Queen's University Press, p55 c1995. ISBN: 0773513183

Foundations of governance: municipal government in Canada's provinces By Institute of Public Administration of Canada University of Toronto Press, p23 c2009 ISBN: 9780802097095

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The emergences of Canada's two solitudes began after James Wolfe led the British to victory over the French colonialists at the Plains of Abraham in 1759. With James Wolfe victory came the end of the Seven Years' War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1763), France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America. The new British rulers left alone much of the religious, political, and social culture of the French-speaking habitants, guaranteeing the right of the Canadiens to practice the Catholic faith and to the use of French civil law (now Quebec law) through the Quebec Act of 1774. This lead to the linguistic divisions of Lower Canada and Upper Canada. Which left the autonomy needed for French Canadian merchants to form a fur trade union with new Scottish settlers. This union culminated in the form of the North West Company that was in direct competition with the British Hudson's Bay Company.