French Canadians' Ambivalence to the British Empire

Coates, Colin M.

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“…76 In fact, Edmond Joly appears to have been the sole French-speaking Canadian to have fought in the Crimean War. 77 According to the biographical sketch written by his father, Edmond was on his way home for two years' leave of absence in order to restore his health when, upon arriving at Malta, "a strong desire to serve his country in the Crimea, brought him to the walls of Sebastopol." 78 The true story was rather different.…”

Section: The Trenches Of Sebastopolmentioning

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Family, Class, Honor, Manhood: Lieutenant Edmond de Lotbinière Joly in India, Paris, and Crimea, 1850–1857

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2020

Journal of Family History

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During the relatively short period when he was a junior officer in the British colonial army, Edmond Joly served in the recently annexed Punjab, at the siege of Sebastopol, and in the effort to rescue his regiment in Lucknow where he was mortally wounded at the age of twenty-four. Earlier that same year, the young Canadian had spent four months in Paris immersed in the social whirl of the aristocratic elite. Beyond describing those eventful years in intimate detail, Joly’s hitherto-unexamined personal letters, memoir, and journal reveal that his chief motivation in becoming a soldier and repeatedly risking his life after a rebellious youth was to gain the respect of his demanding father. The themes of emerging manhood and family honor are therefore central to this article, which also provides an intimate example of the clash between traditional aristocratic values and those of the rising middle class in the modernizing Victorian era.

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Section: The Trenches Of Sebastopolmentioning

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Family, Class, Honor, Manhood: Lieutenant Edmond de Lotbinière Joly in India, Paris, and Crimea, 1850–1857

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2020

Journal of Family History

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“…Coates a donc raison de prétendre que le rapport des Canadiens français à l'Empire britannique est ambigu, et l'a toujours été. Selon lui, on y a loué, au cours des siècles, les « libertés britanniques » tout en cherchant à maintenir le plus haut degré d'autonomie (Coates 2008 Dans la suite du texte, nous aimerions mettre en évidence la façon dont l'idée de britannicité associée à une pensée du multiculturalisme est aussi présente au Canada français. Notre attention portera sur une figure modérée du nationalisme canadien-français de l'entre-deux-guerres.…”

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Britannicité et multiculturalisme canadien

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2012

International Journal of Canadian Studies

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“…The study, which is based on secondary sources, published accounts and archival material preserved in the British Library, fits into new currents in Quebec historiography that point to the complicated and ambivalent relationship between Britain and French Canada in the decades that followed the conquest of New France. 10 Nationalist scholars have long insisted, with good reason, on the struggle for autonomy in Quebec. This struggle was advanced, in part, through the efforts of French-Canadian delegates in London.…”

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Loyalty and Lobbying: French-Canadian Delegates in London, 1763–1840

Bélanger

2020

London Journal of Canadian Studies

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This article examines the individuals who came to London in order to lobby the imperial authorities in favour of the expansion of French-Canadian rights from the 1763 Treaty of Paris to the 1840 Act of Union and who were delegated by a significant body or institution within French Canada. Early efforts were centred on the expansion of religious rights and the perpetuation of Quebec’s legal and social institutions, including French civil law and the seigneurial system. Religious affairs remained an important facet of French-Canadian lobbying throughout the British regime, though the issue of political reform, which came to the fore in the 1780s, soon came to dominate lobbying efforts. These efforts were predicated on ideas of loyalty, as delegates sought to negotiate a place within the British Empire for French Canada. They lobbied London to allow French Canadians to fully participate in civic life within the framework of British political institutions while also allowing Quebec to retain its particular religious and social institutions. Delegates experienced some success, especially when they enjoyed the support of the colonial authorities at Quebec, but often failed to achieve their goals because they ran counter to British policy or because their English-speaking opponents had greater access to Whitehall.

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French Canadians' Ambivalence to the British Empire

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Family, Class, Honor, Manhood: Lieutenant Edmond de Lotbinière Joly in India, Paris, and Crimea, 1850–1857

Family, Class, Honor, Manhood: Lieutenant Edmond de Lotbinière Joly in India, Paris, and Crimea, 1850–1857

Britannicité et multiculturalisme canadien

Loyalty and Lobbying: French-Canadian Delegates in London, 1763–1840

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