- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (Oct 22 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 077102259X
- ISBN-13: 978-0771022593
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.9 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #316,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Normand Lester, a journalist with Radio-Canada (the French-language equivalent of the CBC) stirred up a hornet’s nest when he revealed that the federal government had secretly funded television’s Heritage Minutes which, in his view, provided a sanitized version of our shared history. He was subsequently, controversially, let go. The Black Book of Canada is his impassioned defence of his native province and an implicit repudiation of the anglophone media’s unfair, yet all-too-common attacks on Quebec and Quebecers.
While English Canada may think itself a “just society,” in this highly controversial book – which sold 50,000 copies in French – Normand Lester chronicles English-Canadian intolerance: the expulsion of the Acadians; Lord Durham’s anti-French policies; the hanging of Louis Riel; R. B. Bennett’s funding of anti-Semitic publications; and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Lester argues that the myth of two equal, amicable co-founders of the nation, a myth actively promoted by the federal government over recent decades, ignores the fact that there will always be two incompatible national histories.
While English Canada may think itself a “just society,” in this highly controversial book – which sold 50,000 copies in French – Normand Lester chronicles English-Canadian intolerance: the expulsion of the Acadians; Lord Durham’s anti-French policies; the hanging of Louis Riel; R. B. Bennett’s funding of anti-Semitic publications; and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Lester argues that the myth of two equal, amicable co-founders of the nation, a myth actively promoted by the federal government over recent decades, ignores the fact that there will always be two incompatible national histories.
About the Author
Ray Conlogue was the Globe and Mail’s arts correspondent in Quebec, and now works for the paper in Toronto.
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Here's an eye opener,
By J-Rod "J-rod" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Black Book of English Canada (Paperback)
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George OrwellThis famous quote by George Orwell really applies here. You want to read the real history of Canada? The real history that most hide, or lie about? The real history that isn't taught in Canadian studies? Ever wonder why French Canadians are so angry? Yeah, here it is. Lester was suspended from Radio Canada for it. This book tells of the real documented history of Canada, the battles between the French and the British, French settlements burned and the people constantly pushed west, Treaties ignored, unfair trials, Anti-Japanese crimes, and how many Jews were only let into Canada during WW2 (less then 4,400). If you've always thought Canada was the 'Nice Country' then this book will wake you from that.
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