Our Country — Le Canada • by Jeffery Donaldson 1

Hamilton Arts & Letters My response to 2017’s sesquicentennial celebrations takes the form of a question, one that has been nagging me for a decade or so. I ask you, English Canada, why is it scarcely ever mentioned that our country only exists because of Quebec, because Canada was first colonized by the French? Like all questions, this one is built on a rather grand assumption that its premise is true. Follow and judge. We owe to Quebec and the original Quebecois the fact that we are not Americans. That makes us all, if not quite French-Canadian, then the immediate and fortunate heirs to what the French-Canadian spirit in Canada has made possible.  [  >>>>>  FORWARD ]   + [Distillate © HA&L + Jeffery Donaldson {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.]