For three months, British General James Wolfe lay siege to Quebec City. It was on this day in 1759 that the French Marquis de Montcalm finally led his troops from their walled fortress into combat on the Plains of Abraham. (Though that sounds biblical, the battleground was a field, owned and farmed by Martin Abraham.) The Battle was over in about 45 minutes. In that time, General Wolfe was killed, Montcalm was mortally wounded, and the French had lost the war. Meaning, the British claimed the land as their own. And this is why the motto of Quebec is Je me souvien: I remember.

A color painting of the Battle of Quebec, September 13, 1759 Image source: British Battles

On this day in 1759 in Quebec City, combat between French and British forces decided which would claim the land north of the St. Lawrence River – despite the hundreds of thousands of indigenous people who lived in the region for thousands of years.
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Reporting on the court’s ruling, The New York Times wrote, “This is believed to be the first time a democratic country has ever tested in advance the legal terms of its own dissolution.”

A b/w photo that - maybe more than any other - clearly depicts the yawning chasm between Anglophone and Francophone Canada. Front left, whispering with his hand over his mouth, is Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau (father of Justin). He's saying something to the nation's Finance Minister Allan MacEachan. On the right is Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, smoking a cigarette and wondering why he has to suffer these fools. The woman sitting behind Levesque is thinking the exact same thing. This picture was taken during the closing session of the constitutional conference in Ottawa in 1981. This was a pivotal moment for Canadian efforts to control the nation's constitution. (Up to this time, the British Parliament controlled Canada's constitution.) This session was also pivotal and ultimately disappointing for Quebecois who wanted recognition and self-rule of their own. Photo credit: Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press Image source: iPolitics.ca

On this day in 1998, Canada’s high court ruled Quebec could not secede from Canada without approval of the federal government; but if voters approved independence, elected officials would have to negotiate secession as if it were an amendment to the nation’s constitution.
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Our motto in Quebec is "Je me souviens." which means "I remember"

"Je me souvien."

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Pretty much.

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The suitcase my dad, a first class military radar technician, came to Canada with in 1968 to escape the Russian Facists.

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236 digits isn't enough to express it all!
Cheers to hoping current events snowball into a better life.

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