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Quebec Nationalism

  • Period: to

    Continous

    The paramount goal of French Canada is to keep their French culture alive in Quebec.
  • 1763

    at the time of the British Conquest, there were 60,000 French Canadiens living in the Quebec region
  • 1763

    /the intent of the Royal Proclamation was to assimilate the French Canadiens
  • Period: to

    Continous

    The constitutional act, The Act of Union, the B.N.A., with its federal system, attempted to accommodate the French
  • 1960

    During the 1960s, a "Quiet Revolution" in Quebec with the feeling that Quebec needed special status within the Canadian federation.
  • 1968 and 1976

    1968 and 1976
    Establishment of the parti Qubecois in 1968 and the P.Q. win the election and become the Quebec government in 1976
  • 1980

    1980
    First Referendum held in Quebec, the Federalists win the vote promising Quebec to change the federal structure.
  • 1982

    Trudeau repatriates the Constitution, the nine provinces sign the new repatriated constitution but Quebec does not
  • 1987 and 1992

    1987 and 1992
    Brian Mulroney attempts to bring Quebec into the Canadian Constitutional family at Meech lake in 1987 and at Charlottetown in 1992.
  • 1987 and 1992

    1987 and 1992
    Both attempts fail to bring Quebec in to the Constitution
  • 1987

    Meech lake is not passed in the provincial legislature of Manitoba and Newfoundland.
  • 1992

    The Charlottetown Accord dies in a National Referedum
  • 1995

    1995
    In the 1995 Referendum in Quebec. 51% opposed to seperation and 49% favored seperation
  • 2016

    2016
    Quebec has not entered into the Constitution of Canada today.