[2] It is no accident that there are people throughout the West and the Northwest who have the surnames Canadien (Jean or Joseph Canadien) and sometimes Canaouache (Jean-Baptiste Canaouache). We may also refer to the series of novels by Raoul de Navery, Jean Canada. As far as I know there are no individuals who have the English word "Canadian" as their family name, unless it has been translated. Return to  Article  

[3] Actually a curious process when seen from outside. But what is this strange country which has to repatriate and therefore in a sense import the fundamentals of its constitution? Return to  Article 

[4] When I was working on Micmac issues at the end of the seventies I allowed myself to say, with alarm and consternation, that the Acadian and Canadian presence in  the valley of the St. Lawrence had extinguished any native right to the land. This was an Anglo interpretation, handed out to the natives as authoritative, which used our presence as evidence of the erosion of their rights, while we, as Canadians, did not give ourselves any right of reply. This is an example of what I will call the "fanciful closed circuit line of argument" which sets the pre-Confederation levels of authority against one another so as to control them better, very often in perfectly good conscience, which adds another dimension. Return to  Article 

[5] In his recommendation of 2 August 1991 (p. 23) which was to provide the background for the expected establishment of the third level of government. Return to  Article 

[6] When I speak here of the "Conquest" I mean the double conquest of 1759 - conquest of the Canadians and the Indians - which led to the capitulation of Montreal and the Royal Proclamation. Return to  Article 
 

[7] The Canadians of mixed race were just disregarded; such a category simply did not exist in British legal thought.