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Conscription crisis
The french Canadians did not feel any ties necessary obligations to Great Britain. The Idea of conscription was absolutely disgusting to the french, as they were only willing to fight for the sake of Canada, and not some foreign country. English loyalists thought that the French Canadians were trying to evade their service to Great Britain, and the two groups resented each other over this issue. -
La Grande Noirceur
During this time period, the new premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis, had been giving out contracts to huge English companies, and putting orphans in mental health institutions, to scam the federal government. This resulted in a huge portion of Montreal's workforce being unemployed. -
Conscription Crisis
At this time, Prime minister Mackenzie King attempted to avoid further tensions between french and English Canada.
To ease things up he told the people that conscription would only be enforced if necessary. When the time came to institute conscription, the French Canadians were more understanding as they recognized that Prime Minister McKenzie King had paid attention to the French Canadian's opinions. -
Quiet Revolution
The quiet revolution started after years of oppression and darkness; the people of Quebec were ready for a new future. Popular phrases during this time represented a new attitude that the French Canadians had gotten "On est capable", "We can do it" and "Maitrez chez nous", "Masters of our own house". -
Jean Lesage
The new election of Jean Lesage in Quebec unleashed a new era of modernization, values, ideas. The power/role of the Roman Catholic Church was taken away, as the provincial government taken over responsibilities for schools and hospitals. -
October Crisis
The Front de Libération du Québec or commonly known as the FLQ was a terrorist group in Quebec, Canada, active between 1963 and 1970. In 1970, the October Crisis occurred, in which British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped and Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was murdered, and found in the trunk of a car. This attack on Canada led to the only known use of the War Measures Act in Canada's history. -
Bi and Bi commision
Prime Minister Pearson feared a possible break up, so he put laws into place that would allow either French or English people, that made up 10% or more of the local population to get educated in their preferred language. Following those events Ontario and New Brunswick become officially bilingual provinces. -
Canada's New Flag
French Canadians had a revolting hate towards the old flag, the Union Jack and the Red Ensign for the reason of resemblance and association with the British Empire. Following that, an broad poll was taken. From those votes over 80% wanted a national flag different from Britain, and 60% wanted their flag to bear the maple leaf to create a new separate identity. -
Parti Quebecois
Rene Levesque formed the Parti Quebecois solely to separate from Canada. He accomplished allot of things as one of them was helping pass Bill 101 to make French accessible for the normal everyday language of work, instruction, communication and business. -
Referendum
The province of Quebec was 60% against separation and 40% for separation. This referendum caused many tensions between families and friends (also English and French peoples). Trudeau enticed the french by telling them how he would change the constitution, thus causing the party to lose in trying to separate Quebec. -
Meech Lake accord
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the premier of Quebec at the time had agreed to change the constitution to end the everlasting straints between the rest of Canada and Quebec. They asked that Quebec was to be recognized as a sovereign state in Canada and
was to be given a few special powers of its own. The talks to this agreement was over by June 23, 1990. -
Charlottetown Accord
The defeated vote of Meech caused some uproar, and controversies among the Quebecers, so a new agreement was put out and included the rights of aboriginal peoples, protection of minorities and previous deals included in the Meech Lake Accord. The new vote resulted in a vote of 54.4% NO and 44.6% YES, so the agreement was put out. -
Bloc Quebecois
The Bloc Quebecois was created in 1991 but was elected in 1993 as a somewhat successor of the well known Parti Quebecois; their aim? For Quebec to separate from the rest of Canada. They later became one of the strongest parties in time. -
1995 Referendum
This referendum was the ultimate vote/decider to determine if Quebec would separate or not. People supporting No were coming to Montreal to rally for Quebec to stay. The vote ended in a 50.6% NO to 49.4% YES, The closest its ever been in Canadian History.
