Letter from Canada
BRITISH READERS MAY RECOLLECT MARTIN'S POIGNANT expression of regret, in Voltaire's Candide , that the French and English had felt it necessary to go to war in North America over ‘quelques arpents de neige vers le Canada’. Martin captures the sense of an enduring European perception of Can...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x 2023-05-15T15:01:23+02:00 Letter from Canada Feaver, George 1988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0017257X00006308 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Government and Opposition volume 23, issue 4, page 471-486 ISSN 0017-257X 1477-7053 Public Administration Sociology and Political Science journal-article 1988 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x 2022-04-07T08:02:04Z BRITISH READERS MAY RECOLLECT MARTIN'S POIGNANT expression of regret, in Voltaire's Candide , that the French and English had felt it necessary to go to war in North America over ‘quelques arpents de neige vers le Canada’. Martin captures the sense of an enduring European perception of Canada — an indeterminate expanse of ice and snow held firmly in winter's Arctic grip throughout much of the year. His sardonic utterance reminds us of the overseas rivalries of Canada's European parents out of which were born its historic ‘two solitudes’, its distinct linguistic and cultural communities, one proudly French, the other British in descent, their entwined affairs remaining persistently refractory long after the eventual emergence from its colonial past of present-day Canada. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Canada Government and Opposition 23 4 471 486 |
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BRITISH READERS MAY RECOLLECT MARTIN'S POIGNANT expression of regret, in Voltaire's Candide , that the French and English had felt it necessary to go to war in North America over ‘quelques arpents de neige vers le Canada’. Martin captures the sense of an enduring European perception of Canada — an indeterminate expanse of ice and snow held firmly in winter's Arctic grip throughout much of the year. His sardonic utterance reminds us of the overseas rivalries of Canada's European parents out of which were born its historic ‘two solitudes’, its distinct linguistic and cultural communities, one proudly French, the other British in descent, their entwined affairs remaining persistently refractory long after the eventual emergence from its colonial past of present-day Canada. |
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