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Another Slap in the Face - The Valiants Memorial
Anthony Silvestro 17 November 2006
Another Slap in the Face to Our Proud, English-Speaking History
The Valiants Memorial
Fourteen statues were unveiled near Parliament Hill on November 5, 2006 to celebrate our past. Well whose past are these statues representing? The most important figure in our proud, English-speaking history that spans almost 250 years, General James Wolfe should have been the first statue unveiled on November 5, 2006. Where is the mention of the British General who defeated the French in the final great conflict between Britain and France that shaped this country for the last 250 years? We have acknowledged the French history with statues of three Generals who defeated the British, but there are none of the British Generals. Where are all the British Generals who defeated the French?
To celebrate the fact that some of North America was part of New France in the 1600's, three of the statues unveiled were of French regime heroes: Louis Debuade, Pierre d'Iberville, and Charles de Salaberry. This is so typical of the Liberal, Francophone and Quebec way of using spin, lies, and distortion to change our history. This revision of our history that has taken a stranglehold on this country since Pierre Trudeau came to Ottawa in the late 1960's.
The most important hero of all, General James Wolfe, was nowhere to be found. That’s right folks, no statue of James Wolfe was unveiled. Twenty million Canadians speak only English today because James Wolfe defeated the French in 1759 in the battle on the Plains of Abraham. There are islands, towns and buildings across Canada named after the great British General James Wolfe but sadly enough no statue at The Valiants Memorial. This memorial was to honour five major periods of conflict in Canadian history. The greatest conflict of all was the battle on the Plains of Abraham. This omission of James Wolfe is wrong any way you look at it.
The outcome of the battle on the Plains of Abraham led to the Treaty of Paris (1763) in which the French surrendered all land in North America to the British. We became British North America. The French people living here were given the opportunity to go back to France; those who stayed became part of the British Empire which we are still part of today. Our founding constitution in 1867 was called the British North America Act which served us well until 1982. We became The Dominion of Canada in 1867 and the flag that flew over Parliament was the British flag - later changed to the Red Ensign. These flags flew over Parliament until 1965.
Where is the British history that is a part of our heritage? The English, Scottish, Irish, United Empire Loyalists, Germans and many others that have built this country since 1759 should be disgusted and outraged today. These are our heroes. Let’s list some names of the people, places, ships, cities, towns and so on that have shaped and moulded this country for the last 250 years. Names such as Murray, Carleton, Dorchester, Sherbrooke, Thomson, Monck, Metcalfe, Wellington, Stanley, Prescott, Minto, Lisgar, Devonshire, Lansdowne, Dufferin, MacKenzie, King, Victoria, Abbott, MacDonald, Tupper, Tilley, Borden, Bennett, Thompson, Meighen, Bowell, Townshend, St. Patrick, St. Andrew, Richmond, Monckton (Moncton), Ross, Colborne, Windsor, Hamilton, Vancouver, Regina, Flynn, Bingham, Vanguard, Grey, Aberdeen, McMaster, Bessborough, Willingdon, Whelan, Scott, McGee, McGill, Bishop, By, Williams, Halifax, Kingston, York, Simcoe, Cornwall, Edmonton, Nelson, Elgin, Fraser and Durham.
Ladies and gentlemen, enough is enough. The French have been revising, reversing and rewriting the history of British North America - The Dominion of Canada - since the 1960's. It is truly sad that we have allowed this to happen. It is time to put a stop to it. Let’s not put up with this insult to our history. Write your MP, the media, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor, Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson, CFRA, the Loyalist and Monarchist Societies across the country, the Orangemen, and so on.
Canadians should demand respect for our English-speaking traditions and history. Honour our history by erecting a statue of the great General James Wolfe.
Anthony Silvestro, Ottawa,Ontario, doctort@rogers.com
Note: To read more on language and history issues and to see what the French are really doing to this country, go to www.languagefairness.ca and www.languagefairness.com.
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The following is an excerpt from:
Do Not Be Bamboozled by Our Politicians and Others!
Get the Facts on Our Canadian History Straight
Use of English and French. The Founding of our Canadian Nation
by Jim S. Allan, Toronto. jsallan@sympatico.ca
On TV, on Feb. 6, 1990, Liberal MP Don Boudria, endorsed the politically correct fraud by stating that: "… Canada is a bilingual nation" with "linguistic duality", and that "since the Quebec Act of 1774"… "both founding nations are"… "equal partners".
I submit, There Is Absolutely No Historic Truth to this Claim, Whatsoever!
In addition to the English nation, the Indians and Eskimos (each composed of several tribes/nations), and the Scots, Irish, and Welsh nations, plus French Canadians, all of them British, NONE OF THEM A FRENCH "NATION", played a part in the "founding" of Canada. Some of them played a very significant part! The French Nation (not British) did absolutely nothing! It had chosen at the Treaty of Paris, 1763, to abandon all its once held North American territory, "New France" (except for the two small islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, just south off the centre of Newfoundland) in exchange for the sugar rich island of Guadeloupe.
Before the arrival of Europeans, there were already over 30 different Aboriginal tribes/nations and languages in what is now Canada, which was then, and still is, multilingual. Now, the common language is mainly English, and has been for some 250 years.
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