From elastic!lethe!gts!whome!infoshare!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!tor-nn1.netcom.ca!news Tue Jul 2 06:37:38 1996 Xref: elastic can.politics:75642 ont.general:44676 soc.culture.quebec:12138 tor.general:47590 Path: elastic!lethe!gts!whome!infoshare!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!tor-nn1.netcom.ca!news From: "Russ Kuykendall" Newsgroups: qc.politique,can.politics,ont.general,tor.general,ott.general,qc.general,soc.culture.quebec Subject: Re: "FUCK CANADA !!!" Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:12:17 -0400 Organization: Netcom Canada Lines: 30 Message-ID: <01bb6794.3b388080$615ad3c6@#russkuyk> References: <4qmeob$nru@atlas.uniserve.com> <0a15PD3w165w@freenet.alberni.net> <4qu8rc$o55@atlas.uniserve.com> <31D4B617.430F@cam.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ott-on1-33.netcom.ca X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Jul 01 5:27:55 PM EDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1085 > On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Bernard wrote: > > > LE QUEBEC AUX QUEBECOIS !!! > > FUCK CANADA !!! > > HOPE IT RAINS ON CANADA DAY!!! > > ANGLOS GO HOME !!! > > AU QUEBEC LE 1ER JUILLET C'EST LA FETE DU DEMENAGEMENT!!! > > LE QUEBEC AUX QUEBECOIS !!! > [etc] Little known facts: 1. Length of the battle on the Plains of Abraham: about four minutes 2. Where the majority of pre-Conquest residents of New France resided after 1763: France. 3. Civil rights enjoyed by residents of New France before 1763: none guaranteed. 4. Civil rights enjoyed by residents of New France after 1763: free exercise of Roman Catholicism guaranteed in the Quebec Act, 1774, and political rights guaranteed in the Canada Act, 1790, in addition to the rights enjoyed by this time by subjects of the British Crown guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, 1688. 5. Person responsible for Canada's becoming a federation instead of a "legislative union": Georges-Etienne Cartier 6. Original context of the phrase, "Je me souviens": "Je me souviens, que nee sous le lys, je flouree sous la rose" -- Tache. Translation: "I remember, that born into the French culture, I flourish under English government." -- Russ Kuykendall