Thanks so much! It means a lot to hear that. We felt the same way in researching it as Anglo-Canadians-there's no need to do anything more than stick to the facts. There was so much more we wished we could have included but-as we may have mentioned elsewhere-it could have been a feature-length documentary. As for a podcast, that's been on the table from the get-go, we just need to reach a few goals and keep the motor running to get there!

Well said and well written, I agree wholeheartedly.

i agree. great stuff

Good for you

I think just about everyone across the country liked Rene Levesque, even those who detested his politics.

@@hilariousname6826 I agree. Lévesque was a brilliant man who stood for his beliefs and always strought to achieve them democratically and peacefully, may he rest in peace

the greatest to ever do it, a real man of the people

This is one thing that makes me proud of Quebec: even when something so visceral and passionate and polarizing as the referendum on sovereignty came and went, there were no riots or violence, just joy on the winning side and sadness on the losing side. In a city that burns everything to the ground when the Habs win or lose in the playoffs, that is a remarkably (and commendably) civil reaction.

c est lhistoire du canada aussi!

@martinemjt clairement pas compris le commentaire avec ta réponse....

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I bet that they wont mention how the english conservative burnt the montreal library where we lost most of our history. They cut water hoses and held firefighters back. It is such an underrated event that has been suppressed by english conservatism propaganda that still goes on to this day in news outlets such as The Gazette of Montreal. Donks everywhere. Extremism is the issue.

In fact, it's the other way around. More or less. Gilles Vigneault wrote the song as an alternative to "Happy Birthday". However, it was first sung during the St-Jean-Baptiste Day show in 1975. The artists participating in the show (all staged of course) started singing "Happy Birthday Quebec." Then Vigneault says that they should sing a song in French and he proposes that song. They even start singing it to some artists. When you listen to the verses, you can see they are all about the passing of time and the presence of loved ones. It fits very well with a birthday song. So, let's say that it was known both as a patriotic and a birthday song from the get go. Here's the show: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itKcgtVmyc6alok.html

@@Xerxes2005 Yeah, I think the video here is not really accurate when it claims 'Gens du Pays' was originally a 'separatist' song, it became somewhat of an anthem, but was never meant to replace the O'Canada.

@@rejeangagne4524 « Mon pays » from Vigneault was probably more of a serious attempt to write a national anthem but didn’t have quite the same cultural impact

Quigsworth: It's not jut you IT's our educational system that doesn't teach any real history of Canada. when I went to school we learned about all states & barley touch our Provinces. even now my daughter is not taught any of the history, she is tought how our political system works but no real history

How is it cultural appropriation if Quebec is a part of Canada?

@@PaulDurdle same country, different culture, not hard to understand.

@@PaulDurdle Typical colonialist reply. I don't blame you, people like you just don't understand the concept of different cultures, ethnicities and nations. Be it the nation of Quebec (as officially recognized now) or the first nations. You wish we were all homogenous and the same but we're not. There's a popular saying that summarizes it well: Canada is all about multiculturalism.... That is, unless you speak french. "bUt ThIs Is CaNaDa" is just a willfully ignorant reply. And yes, poutine is a sensitive subject because of the decades of using poutine to denigrate us, before suddenly flipping sides and claiming it as your own.

@@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 See, when I defend Quebec and French Canadian culture to the many that shit on it, people like you are making it harder. Absolute unnecessary asshole-like reply. I completed French Immersion in school, my favourite hockey team (that I watch on RDS) is Montréal, as is my favourite and most visited city. When I’m there and speak French, locals basically tell me to fuck off. And then Québécois wonder why the rest of the country often has no time for that attitude. It is increasingly hard to defend. I see Canada as indigenous, British, and French. Too few people forget that the French and British both were a major part of the beginnings of this country, and obviously the indigenous before them. So I’m not appropriating anything when I say that something from French Canada is Canadian. It’s right in the fucking title.

Poivre, Pepsi,pea soup & may west looong before poutine.

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It's sad how little your generation learnt about Canada as a whole and how indoctrinated you were.

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Indeed, and up until that time, the anglophone would call themselves the 'english' (vs the 'canadians'), as many where of English descent, and even then, most flags other than Quebec's flag wore the union jack symbols as part of their flag. It's always surprising to realise that 'Canada's' construction is so recent, the national anthem, the flags, and so on, were adopted very recently, and still the rest-of-canada thinks the french have been the ones 'stealing' in the country.

​@@rejeangagne4524we don't think that at all. We are as proud of Quebec as Quebec is of itself. It's the Frenchies creating this divide and perpetuating this narrative of us vs them. The rest of the Confederation would just like Quebec to be a team player and remove the stick they crammed up it's ass

Harfangbleu, en réalité, la grande majorité des Canadiens se disaient Canadiens et non Canadiens-Français et ce même bien après 1960. Ce sont les Anglos qui nous ont collé ce nom de French Canadian.

Also, the FLQ had no leader; they were all cells operating independently. It would have also been nice to mention how the Referendum was lost through collusion of the Canadian government with waves of new immigrants, granted status in exchange for their vote, not refusal by the people. This is very well documented.

That’s not entirely accurate. Canada was used as a term defining First People’s land , north along the St. Lawrence, by Cartier in the 16th century. Then it was used as a term describing First People themselves during the 17th century. In 1664 it was used exclusively as that meaning. It was later, by 1734, that it’s usage as the term for French settlers living in what is now Quebec was more prevalent. For a short time, until 1791, part of Quebec was the Province of Canada.

Thanks! That sentiment is part of the reason we started the series!

British/Anglophone Canada doesn't want you to know...

The federal government has to make overtures to Quebec because of how many seats it has. The senior Trudeau’s intentions were basically political in nature. I understand now why Quebec has lots of complaints but also why the west has many complaints. Anyway, love from Ottawa ✌🏼

@@FullOfMalarky now the ROC needs a video regarding how at Confederation they split the debt half half between High and Low Canada.... when Quebec actually had generated only 1/10 of that debt....

En effet, les «wokes» version des années 2020 n'en parle jamais. On voit que le «fils» Trudeau finance les même groupes qui modifie notre brillante histoire. Ce sont des sujet qui ne sont pas mentionné dans nos écoles non plus.

Mexico and every other Latin American country down to Panama: “Allow us to introduce ourselves…”

@@ilovemuslimfood666 Well no, because we don't share the same language. I'm talking about the U.S. and Canada together.

@@ilovemuslimfood666 what the hell is Muslim food??

Ils auraient pu dire aussi pourquoi et qui a mit le feu au parlement qui était à Montréal en ce temps la

We had a great time shooting in Quebec City. It's going to come up again in our first big batch of episodes!

Thanks for the kind words, it was a rabbit hole of a story to research!

@@Canadianaweird because this story is pretty common knowledge in Quebec, but thank you for taking the time to share history!

Weird. I grew up in BC in the 70s and never even knew the song "God Save the Queen". I can't imagine anyone singing that in Canada, unless they were born in the UK. One year I had a religious teacher and we said the Lord's Prayer. One year out of all my elementary and secondary school. I remember a couple of students would leave the class during that part as they weren't Christian.

@@alukuhito the truth it was at Silverthorn Public School in Mississauga Ontario Canada . 1971 -1977 .

@@alexschonski3637 Interesting. I guess they don't do that anymore.

Now, that is downright bizarre to me - in school in Ontario in the '60s, we had one or both of O, Canada and God Save the Queen every morning (and the Lord's Prayer). In the 1980s when I was teaching in Nova Scotia and then Manitoba - same thing. I believe when I left teaching in the 2000s, in Alberta, we still had one anthem or the other every morning. IIRC. I can't imagine how anyone could have grown up anywhere in Canada without having learned God Save the Queen inside out. But then, I've never spent much time in BC; must be different there.@@alukuhito

I can't believe anyone would be singing God Save the Queen/King in Canada at school in the 80s. It seems hillarious considering that there are many Canadians who don't believe in having a monarchy.@@hilariousname6826

Thank you for the kind words Helena!

We are still in shock it got posted there, thanks for checking us out!

ou avez vous vue des documentaires qui insulte le Québec je suis curieux .

@@gotigilles1 Quebec bashing is something you see rather frequently all all media in particular in some newspaper from Ontario, but as for YT, there's an infamous youtuber from Vancouver that has a lot of success (I won't say his name he doesn't need publicity) whos adamant about Quebec bashing and how terrible we are as people in the country.

That guy's a clown.@@rejeangagne4524

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How long before we (both Quebec and English Canada) and were both swallowed up by the USA? Neither France nor the UK could help. I prefer the never-ending dental appointment that Lucien Bouchard spoke of.

You have always had the option to leave when you have a majority vote to do so. Our problem is when you cant do that legally, you always resort to violence and anarchy to get your way. That is not the Canadian way. Our provinces did not unite by force nor will we be divided by force. Quebec is not unique in that, there have been rebellions and many separtist votes in other provinces during our history as well. Quebec's problem is it is a negative input province. It gets more from the federal government than it contributes so it cannot compete economically as an independent country in North America without substantially lowering the standard of living of its population. As recently as the 70's, it was assumed by most Quebecoise that an 'independent' Quebec had to form an alliance with a stronger trading partner like France to survive but stood a chance of becoming a French colony once again. This was seen as even more distasteful than remaining in Canada.

⁠@@johnkidd1226what the hell are you going on about? A negative input province? OF COURSE cANADA WAS united by force… Quebec never consented to being part of Canada. It doesn’t mean we voted for No to separation that we voted that the status quo was okay… Also the referendum were in the 80s and 95 so you obviously dont even know what the hell you are talking about…

@@ericsimard4449 and not to mention La nuit des longs couteaux where every provinces with the Federal stabbed Quebec in the back, by signing the constitution rapatriation... Quebec never did sign this... we are not part of Canada per se... we were conquered in 1759 then stabbed and double crossed over and over

​​​@@johnkidd1226"Our provinces did not unite by force." Yes because we obviously seperated from France to become part of the British Empire democratically. Fucking foreign invaders eh. I wish China would inavde this god forsaken federation and show the other provinces what it feels like to do politics with asshats who dont even speak your language. If our independance dosent go as planed we will probably just apply to become a State in the USA. We would enjoy allot more freedom than we currently do as a province and the americain federation is 10 times stronger.

it’s quite interesting to see such a dynamic be simply ignored from the world.

Québécois rarely sing the canadian anthem.. Most people don’t know the lyrics and the ones that do are either anglophones or they know because of hockey. Most québécois don’t even consider themselves canadian… We sing “Gens du pays” instead!

A English speaking Canadian once told me that the french version was a perverted translation of the anthem. I told him that the original version was written in french but he did not believe me. Sometimes, I wonder if he did the research to discover the truth... probably not.

Good luck with your essay! There's a whole heck of a lot to the story we had to cut for time. One day we'll follow up with a video focused more on the development of the English lyrics but that's another great thread to follow if it helps your studies.

@@Canadiana I completely understand. Working more on this essay, I hadn't realized English lyrics of this song had been dating back almost 80 years until it became the official anthem. It would be interesting to know why Weir's original lyrics were changed before O Canada became official.

@@societyproductions Absolutely, we vaguely touch on that in the blog post we link at the end of the video. One of the more curious alterations to Weir's lyrics, in the period from the 1960s to 1980, is the change from “O Canada, glorious and free” to “God keep our land, glorious and free.” The injection of religious (specifically Christian) sentiment was a choice, orchestrated by the government committee, unlike the Quebecois version where it naturally comes from the original lyricist Routhier. Weir had altered his original lyrics a number of times, landing on a version that was basically void of religious lyrics-it was pretty secular song-and it wasn't until the government stepped in that we see the addition. So why did they feel the need to make this change? Was it because the Quebecois version had such a strong religious thread? That's doubtful because they ignored everything else about the French lyrics. Did the public want the government to include a reference to God? The secular version was popular for over 50 years and hadn't been altered. In any case, it's an intriguing subject, one that has left the Canadian public in a perpetual state of debate over the English lyrics-along with Weir's reference to WWI soldiers through "in all our sons command." And that's just one thread to follow surrounding the English lyrics, there's so much more (including the government basically strong-arming the rights from Weir's heirs), so you can see why we had to cut it-bringing it up in the episode it would have taken us down a long tangential rabbit hole. We seriously need to do a follow-up video to this episode to dive into it properly.

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Yes, Louis Joseph Papineau at his best...but the British would end it with the hanging

That's how rebellions usually end.@@AlainMcInnis

HUMMMMMM louis Joseph papineau’s rebellion was much greater then the Nelson’s brother. You obviously have no idea what the hell you are talking about, all the big battles happened in Quebec by French Canadians… and English Canada was happy to force their taxes on us… also the hangings, the burnings and various other persecutions of whoever was associated to patriotes (such as lords, republicans, farmers and several others) you lack compassion and understanding of our colonization

@@ericsimard4449tout ce que je dis c'est que c'est réducteur de voir la rébellion des patriotes comme un conflit entre anglais et français: ce n'était pas le cas. Oui au Bas Canada il y avait surtout des francophones et oui le rapport Durham est la preuve du racisme institutionnel imposé par les britanniques. C'était un conflit pour la liberté politique et t'inquiète je suis très au fait de notre colonisation. Un jour peut-être qu'on s'émancipera

@@ericsimard4449je crois que tout est à prendre avec nuance. Les affrontements étaient pour récupérer le pouvoir exécutif. Bien sûr, ceux que ça dérangeaient le plus é tait les français. Les affrontements se sont fait en sol francophone. Les anglais étaient impliqués, mais beaucoup moins. Pour les frères Nelson, Wolfred était avec Papineau à st-denis, set-ours et set-charles. Il était un anglophone vivant en milieu francophone. Le frère de Nelson a été plus une nuisance. Il a dit à Papineau de se sauver et a fait croire , plus tard, au Francophones que Papineau était de retour et demandait une nouvelle rébellion. Plusieurs l’ont écouté et se sont bêtement allés se faire tuer. Bref, vous avez raison les deux et connaissez très bien l’histoire.

That's great! Thanks for watching!

I'm French-Canadian but I don't really blame the other provinces for skipping some parts of history. A lot of countries have a national identity that's a polite fiction to smooth over headaches.

One day we will free ourselves from the foreign invaders in Ottawa. And only then will we build positive relationships whit our English brethren.

We call ourselves sovereignists or independtists. We want independence, our goal is not to divide like what the word « separatists » implies.

Well, the fact that the Canadian anthem is originally a song from Quebec with a different meaning in french than in english is a rather well know fact that most people who lived in the 70s and 80s should know, even if we don't know or remember the fine details.

Y vont jamais apprendre. On devrai arrêter de les prendre en considération.

That's what my dad used to sing at school instead of Oh Canada.