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English Canadian
1,367,125 English ethnicity (single responses only)[1] |
Regions with significant populations | |
Throughout Canada except Quebec | |
Languages | |
English, French | |
Religion | |
Mainly Protestantism, Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
English Americans and other English diaspora, Scottish Canadians and other British Canadians |
English Canadians or Anglo-Canadians (Canadiens anglais in French) refers to either Canadians of English ethnic origin and heritage, or to English-speaking, or Anglophone, Canadians of any ethnic origin; it is used primarily in contrast with French Canadians.[2][3] Canada is an officially bilingual state, with English and French official language communities. Immigrant cultural groups ostensibly integrate into one or both of these communities, but often retaining elements of their original cultures. The term English-speaking Canadian is sometimes used interchangeably with English Canadian.
Although many English-speaking Canadians have strong historical roots traceable to England or other parts of the British Isles, the population as whole belongs to a multitude of ethnic backgrounds. They or their ancestors came from various European, Asian, Caribbean, African, Latin American, and Pacific Island cultures, as well as French Canada and North American Aboriginal groups. As such, although the office of the Governor General is said to alternate between "French" and "English" persons, the two most recent former Governors General (Adrienne Clarkson, an English-speaking Chinese Canadian; and Michaëlle Jean, a French-speaking Haitian Canadian) show that this refers to language and not culture or ethnicity.
In addition to the terms "English Canadian" and "Canadian", the terms "Anglophone Canadian" and "Anglo-Canadian" are also used.[4][5][6][7]
Geographic distribution[edit]
by ethnicity[edit]
Percent | |
Canada— Total | 21.03% |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 39.9% |
Prince Edward Island | 31.1% |
British Columbia | 29.6% |
Alberta | 24.9% |
Ontario | 24.7% |
Saskatchewan | 24.6% |
New Brunswick | 23.0% |
Manitoba | 22.1% |
Yukon | 18.22% |
Northwest Territories | 17.2% |
Quebec | 3.3% |
Nova Scotia | |
Nunavut |
by language[edit]
The following table shows the English-speaking population of Canada's provinces and territories. The data are from Statistics Canada.[8][9] Figures are given for the number of single responses "English" to the mother tongue question, as well as a total including multiple responses one of which is English.
Province or territory | English, single responses |
Percen- tage |
English, single and multiple responses |
Percen- tage |
Total population responding |
Canada — Total | 25,352,315 | 58.5% | 24,694,835 | 59.7% | 35,859,030 |
British Columbia | 2,825,780 | 73.0% | 2,872,830 | 74.3% | 4,868,875 |
Alberta | 4,015,515 | 80.9% | 3,934,195 | 82.0% | 4,556,150 |
Saskatchewan | 817,955 | 84.9% | 827,350 | 85.9% | 1,180,150 |
Manitoba | 823,910 | 74.7% | 839,765 | 76.1% | 1,267,695 |
Ontario | 12,965,225 | 70.6% | 10,119,835 | 71.9% | 13,513,550 |
Quebec | 557,045 | 7.8% | 627,510 | 8.8% | 8,117,580 |
New Brunswick | 465,170 | 64.6% | 471,010 | 65.4% | 730,710 |
Nova Scotia | 832,660 | 92.8% | 836,910 | 93.2% | 940,570 |
Prince Edward Island | 138,125 | 93.8% | 125,650 | 94.2% | 140,385 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 499,755 | 98.4% | 500,405 | 98.5% | 508,080 |
Nunavut | 6,945 | 26.0% | 7,395 | 27.7% | 33,670 |
Northwest Territories | 28,650 | 77.2% | 29,075 | 78.4% | 43,100 |
Yukon | 24,590 | 86.2% | 24,925 | 87.4% | 36,520 |
Notably, 46% of English-speaking Canadians live in Ontario, and 30% in the two western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The most monolingual province is Newfoundland and Labrador at 98.5%. English-speakers are in the minority only in Quebec and Nunavut. In the cases of Quebec and New Brunswick, the vast majority of the non-Anglophone population speaks French; in the case of Nunavut, the people speak a non-official language of Canada, Inuktitut.
Newfoundland (and Labrador)[edit]
English Canadian history starts with the attempts to establish English settlements in Newfoundland in the sixteenth century. The first English settlement in present-day Canada was at St. Johns Newfoundland, in 1583. Newfoundland's population was significantly influenced by Irish and English immigration, much of it as a result of the migratory fishery in the decades prior to the Irish Potato famine. Although the location of the earliest English settlement in what would eventually become Canada, Newfoundland itself (now called Newfoundland and Labrador) would be the last province to enter Confederation in 1949.
Nova Scotia[edit]
The area that forms the present day province of Nova Scotia was contested by the British and French in the eighteenth century. French settlements at Port Royal, Louisbourg and what is now Prince Edward Island were seized by the British (or by American Colonists, as in the case of Louisbourg). After the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ceded the French colony of Acadia (today's mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) to Great Britain, efforts to colonize the province were limited to small settlements in Canso and Annapolis Royal. In 1749 Colonel Edward Cornwallis was given command of an expedition for the settlement of Chebucto by some three thousand persons, many of whom were Cockney. Cornwallis' settlement, Halifax, would become the provincial capital, the primary commercial centre for the Maritime provinces, a strategic British military and naval outpost and an important east coast cultural centre. To offset the Catholic presence of Acadians, foreign Protestants (mainly German) were given land and founded Lunenburg. Nova Scotia itself saw considerable immigration from Scotland, particularly to communities such as Pictou in the northern part of the province and to Cape Breton Island, but this began only with the arrival of the Hector in 1773.
Loyalists: New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario[edit]
The history of English Canadians is bound to the history of English settlement of North America, and particularly New England, because of the resettlement of many Loyalists following the American Revolution in areas that would form part of Canada. Many of the fifty thousand Loyalists who were resettled to the north of the United States after 1783 came from families that had already been settled for several generations in North America and were from prominent families in Boston, New York and other east coast towns. Although largely of British ancestry, these settlers had also intermarried with Huguenot and Dutch colonists and were accompanied by Loyalists of African descent. Dispossessed of their property at the end of the Revolutionary War, the Loyalists arrived as refugees to settle primarily along the shores of southern Nova Scotia, the Bay of Fundy and the Saint John River and in Quebec to the east and southwest of Montreal.
The colony of New Brunswick was created from western part of Nova Scotia at the instigation of these new English-speaking settlers. The Loyalist settlements in southwestern Quebec formed the nucleus of what would become the province of Upper Canada and, after 1867, Ontario.
Upper Canada was a primary destination for English, Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers to Canada in the nineteenth century, and was on the front lines in the War of 1812 between the British Empire and the United States. The province also received immigrants from non English-speaking sources such as Germans, many of whom settled around Kitchener (formerly called Berlin).[10] Ontario would become the most populous province in the Dominion of Canada at the time of Confederation, and, together with Montreal, formed the country's industrial heartland and emerged as an important cultural and media centre for English Canada. Toronto is today the largest city in Canada, and, largely as a result of changing immigration patterns since the 1960s, is also one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world.
After the fall of New France to the British in 1759, a colonial governing class established itself in Quebec City. Larger numbers of English-speaking settlers arrived in the Eastern Townships and Montreal after the American Revolution. English, Scottish, and Irish communities established themselves in Montreal in the 1800s. Montreal would become Canada's largest city and commercial hub in Canada. An Anglo-Scot business elite would control Canadian commerce up until the 1950s, founding a Protestant public school system and hospitals and universities such as McGill University. These immigrants were joined by other Europeans in the early 1900s, including Italians and Jews, who assimilated to a large degree into the anglophone community. Many English-speaking Quebeckers left Quebec following the election of the Parti Québécois in 1976 resulting[11] in a steep decline in the anglophone population; many who have remained have learned French in order to function within the dominant Francophone society.
British Columbia[edit]
As in much of western Canada, many of the earliest European communities in British Columbia began as outposts of the Hudson's Bay Company, founded in London in 1670 to carry on the fur trade via Hudson Bay. Broader settlement began in earnest with the founding of Fort Victoria in 1843 and the subsequent creation of the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849. The capital, Victoria developed during the height of the British Empire and long self-identified as being "more English than the English".
The Colony of British Columbia was established on the mainland in 1858 by Governor James Douglas as a means of asserting British sovereignty in the face of a massive influx of gold miners, many of whom were American. Despite the enormous distances that separated the Pacific colony from Central Canada, British Columbia joined Confederation in 1871, choosing to become Canadian partly as a means of resisting possible absorption into the United States. Chinese workers, brought in to labour on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, established sizeable populations in many B.C. communities, particularly Vancouver which quickly became the province's economic and cultural centre after the railway's completion in 1886. Like Ontario, British Columbia has received immigrants from a broad range of countries including large numbers of Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, Sikhs from India and Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan and in more recent years, the People's Republic, and the ongoing influx of Europeans from Europe continues. However, for many years British Columbia, in contrast to the Prairie Provinces, received a majority of immigrants from Great Britain: over half in 1911 and over 60 percent by 1921.[12] Over half of people with British ancestry in British Columbia have direct family ties within two generations (i.e. grandparent or parent) to the British Isles, rather than via British ethnic stock from Central Canada or the Maritimes (unlike the Prairies where Canadian-British stock is more common). Europeans of non-British stock have been more common, also, in British Columbia than in any other part of Canada, although certain ethnicities such as Ukrainians and Scandinavians are more concentrated in the Prairies. Except for the Italians and more recent European immigrants, earlier waves of Europeans of all origins are near-entirely assimilated, although any number of accents are common in families and communities nearly anywhere in the province, as has also been the case since colonial times. Interethnic and interracial marriages and were also more common in British Columbia than in other provinces since colonial times .
Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan[edit]
The French-English tensions that marked the establishment of the earliest English-speaking settlements in Nova Scotia were echoed on the Prairies in the late nineteenth century. The earliest British settlement in Assiniboia (part of present-day Manitoba) involved some 300 largely Scottish colonists under the sponsorship of Lord Selkirk in 1811. The early attempts at introducing English-speaking settlers into an area already occupied by French-speaking Métis sparked the Red River Rebellion and the later Northwest Rebellion.[citation needed] These conflicts created a rift between Ontario, (English-speaking and at the time largely Protestant), and Quebec. The suppression of the rebellions allowed the government of Canada to proceed with a settlement of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta that was to create provinces that identified generally with English Canada in culture and outlook, although immigration included large numbers of people from non English-speaking European backgrounds, especially Scandinavians and Ukrainians.
Twentieth century[edit]
Although Canada has long prided itself on its relatively peaceful history, war has played a significant role in the formation of an English Canadian identity. As part of the British Empire, Canada found itself at war against the Central Powers in 1914. In the main, English Canadians enlisted for service with an initial enthusiastic and genuine sense of loyalty and duty.[13] The sacrifices and accomplishments of Canadians at battles such as Vimy Ridge and the Dieppe Raid in France are well known and respected among English Canadians and helped forge a more common sense of nationality.[14] In World War II, Canada made its own separate declaration of war and played a critical role in supporting the Allied war effort. Again, support for the war effort to defend the United Kingdom and liberate continental Europe from Axis domination was particularly strong among English Canadians[citation needed]. In the post war era, although Canada was committed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, English Canadians took considerable pride in the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Lester Pearson for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis and have been determined supporters of the peacekeeping activities of the United Nations.[15][16]
In the late twentieth century, increasing American cultural influence combined with diminishing British influence, and political and constitutional crises driven by the exigencies of dealing with the Quebec sovereignty movement and Western alienation contributed to something of an identity crisis for English Canadians.[17] George Grant's Lament for a Nation is still seen as an important work relating to the stresses and vulnerabilities affecting English Canada.[18] However, the period of the 1960s through to the present have also seen tremendous accomplishments in English Canadian literature. Writers from English-speaking Canada such as Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, and Carol Shields dissected the experience of English Canadians [19][20] or of life in English Canadian society.[21] and assumed a place among the world's best-known English-language literary figures. Journalist Pierre Berton wrote a number of books popularizing Canadian history which had a particular resonance among English-speaking Canadians, while critics and philosophers such as Northrop Frye and John Ralston Saul have attempted to analyze the Canadian experience. Still, particularly at the academic level, debate continues as to the nature of English Canada and the extent to which English Canadians exist as an identifiable identity.[22]
English-speaking Canadians have not adopted symbols specific to themselves. Although English Canadians are attached to the Canadian Flag,[23] it is the national flag and intended to be a symbol for all Canadians, regardless of ethnicity or language. The flag debate of 1965 revealed a strong attachment to the Canadian Red Ensign,[24] previously flown as the flag of Canada prior to the adoption of the Maple Leaf in 1965. Even today, there is considerable support for use of the Red Ensign in certain specific circumstances, such as the commemoration ceremonies for the Battle of Vimy Ridge.[25]
The maple leaf itself, as a symbol, was used as early as 1834 in what is now Quebec as a symbol of the Société St. Jean Baptiste but was adopted for use shortly afterwards by the English-speaking community in Canada. The Maple Leaf Forever, penned in 1867 at the time of Confederation was at one time regarded as an informal anthem for English Canadians,[26] but reaction by English-speaking Canadians to a decision of a New Brunswick school to stop the singing of the anthem are attached to the official national anthem, O Canada, by Calixa Lavallée suggests that the official anthem enjoys considerable support.[27]
The beaver is sometimes seen as another Canadian symbol, but is not necessarily specific to English Canadians. It too was used originally in connection with the Société St. Jean Baptiste before coming into currency as a more general Canadian symbol. In the 1973 political satire by Stanley Burke, Frog Fables & Beaver Tales, a spoof on Canadian politics of the Pierre Trudeau era, English Canadians are depicted in the main as well-meaning, but not terribly clever beavers (with other animals such as frogs, sea otters and gophers assigned to represent other linguistic and provincial populations). The historical relevance of the beaver stems from the early fur trade. It has been asserted that "[t]he fur trade in general and the Hudson's Bay Company in particular exercised a profound influence on the sculpting of the Canadian soul."[28]
The Crown has historically been an intangible but significant symbol for many English Canadians. Loyalty to Great Britain created the initial fracture lines between the populations of the Thirteen Colonies and the populations of Nova Scotia and Quebec at the time of the American Revolution and forced the flight of the Loyalists after the end of the war. As such English Canada developed in the nineteenth century along lines that continued to emphasize this historical attachment, evident in the naming of cities, parks and even whole provinces after members of the royal family, the retention of flags, badges and provincial mottos expressive of loyalty, and enthusiastic responses to royal visits. While such loyalty is no longer as powerful a unifying force as it once was among English Canadians, it continues to exert a noticeable influence on English Canadian culture. According to the author and political commentator Richard Gwyn while "[t]he British connection has long vanished... it takes only a short dig down to the sedimentary layer once occupied by the Loyalists to locate the sources of a great many contemporary Canadian convictions and conventions."[29] Gwyn considers that the modern equivalent of the once talismanic loyalty is "tolerance": "a quality now accepted almost universally as the feature that makes us a distinct people."[30]
Ethnic composition[edit]
The 2001 Census of Canada provides information about the ethnic composition of English-speaking Canadians. This "refers to the ethnic or cultural group(s) to which the respondent's ancestors belong".[31] However, interpretation of data is complicated by two factors.
- Respondents were instructed to specify as many ethnic origins as applicable. Thus, if one has seven great-grandparents of English descent and one of Welsh descent, one will answer "English" and "Welsh" to this question, and in this example the representation of Welsh ancestry is exaggerated. This method is likely to lead to overrepresentation of smaller groups compared to the method in use until 1976, in which only paternal ancestry was reported.If on the other hand one restricts attention to single responses, groups which have arrived in Canada more recently will be overrepresented compared to groups which have been present longer.
- Non-Aboriginal respondents are not discouraged from providing responses denoting origins in North America. The most frequent of these is "Canadian". The response "Canadian" is in fact provided as an example in the census instructions, based on its frequency in past surveys.
See the definition of "ethnic origin" from the 2001 Census dictionary for further information.
The data in the following tables pertain to the population of Canada reporting English as its sole mother tongue, a total of 17,352,315 inhabitants out of 29,639,035. A figure for single ethnic origin responses is provide, as well as a total figure for ethnic origins appearing in single or multiple responses (for groups exceeding 2% of the total English-speaking population). The sum of the percentages for single responses is less than 100%, while the corresponding total for single or multiple responses is greater than 100%. The data are taken from the 2001 Census of Canada.[32]
Ethnic group | Total responses |
Percen- tage |
Single responses |
Percen- tage |
Total | 17,352,315 | 100.0% | ||
Canadian | 6,244,055 | 36.0% | 3,104,955 | 17.9% |
English | 5,809,805 | 33.5% | 1,464,430 | 8.4% |
Scottish | 4,046,325 | 23.3% | 592,825 | 3.4% |
Irish | 3,580,320 | 20.6% | 457,985 | 2.6% |
German | 2,265,505 | 13.1% | 385,760 | 2.2% |
French | 1,993,100 | 11.5% | 158,400 | 0.9% |
Ukrainian | 877,690 | 5.1% | 188,830 | 1.1% |
Dutch | 749,945 | 4.3% | 184,415 | 1.1% |
North American Indian | 713,925 | 4.1% | 280,795 | 1.6% |
Italian | 670,300 | 3.9% | 234,610 | 1.4% |
Polish | 555,740 | 3.2% | 72,110 | 0.4% |
Norwegian | 350,085 | 2.0% | 38,980 | 0.2% |
The remaining ethnic groups (single or multiple responses) forming at least 1% of the English-speaking population are Welsh (2.0%), Swedish (1.5%), Hungarian (1.5%), East Indian (1.4%), Métis (1.4%), Jewish (1.4%), Russian (1.4%), American (1.3%), Jamaican (1.2%) and Chinese (1.1%). The remaining ethnic groups (single response) forming at least 0.5% of the English-speaking population are East Indian (1.0%), Jamaican (0.8%) and Chinese (0.6%).
Depending on the principal period of immigration to Canada and other factors, ethnic groups (other than British Isles, French, and Aboriginal ones) vary in their percentage of native speakers of English. For example, while a roughly equal number of Canadians have at least partial Ukrainian and Chinese ancestry, 82% of Ukrainian Canadians speak English as their sole mother tongue, and only 17% of Chinese Canadians do (though this rises to 34% in the 0 to 14 age group).[33] As the number of second and third-generation Chinese Canadians increases, their weight within the English-speaking population can also be expected to increase. It should also be borne in mind that some percentage of any minority ethnic group will adopt French, particularly in Quebec.
In the 2001 Canadian census, 17,572,170 Canadians indicated that they were English-speaking. As discussed in the Introduction, however, this does not mean that 17.5 million people in Canada would necessarily self-identify as being 'English Canadian'.
Except in Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces, most Canadian English is only subtly different from English spoken in much of the mid-western and western United States. Spoken English in the Maritimes has some resemblance to English of some of the New England states. While Newfoundland speaks a specific Newfoundland English dialect, and so has the most distinct accent and vocabulary, with the spoken language influenced in particular by English and Irish immigration. There are a few pronunciations that are distinctive for most English Canadians, such as 'zed' for the last letter of the alphabet.
English Canadian spelling continues to favour most spellings of British English, including 'centre', 'theatre', 'colour' and 'labour', although usage is not universal. Other spellings, such as 'gaol' and 'programme', have disappeared entirely or are in retreat. The principal differences between British and Canadian spelling are twofold: '-ise' and '-yse' words ('organise/organize' and 'analyse' in Britain, 'organize' and 'analyze/analyse' in Canada), and '-e' words ('annexe' and 'grille' in Britain, 'annex' and 'grill' in Canada, but 'axe' in both, 'ax' in the USA). But '-ize' is becoming increasingly common in Britain, bringing British spelling closer to the Canadian standard.
Vocabulary of Canadian English contains a few distinctive words and phrases. In British Columbia, for example, the Chinook word 'skookum' for, variously, 'good' or 'great' or 'reliable' or 'durable', has passed into common use, and the French word 'tuque' for a particular type of winter head covering is in quite widespread use throughout the country.
Languages besides English are spoken extensively in provinces with English-speaking majorities. Besides French (which is an official language of the province of New Brunswick and in the three territories), indigenous languages, including Inuktitut and Cree are widely spoken and are in some instances influencing the language of English speakers, just as traditional First Nations art forms are influencing public art, architecture and symbology in English Canada. Immigrants to Canada from Asia and parts of Europe in particular have brought languages other than English and French to many communities, particularly Toronto, Vancouver and other larger centres. On the west coast, for example, Chinese and Punjabi are taught in some high schools; while on the east coast efforts have been made to preserve the Scots Gaelic language brought by early settlers to Nova Scotia. In the Prairie provinces, and to a lesser degree elsewhere, there are a large number of second-generation and more Ukrainian Canadians who have retained at least partial fluency in the Ukrainian language.
The population of the provinces other than Quebec in the 2001 Census is some 22,514,455. It is impossible to know with certainty how many of that number would self-identify as 'English Canadians' under the broadest interpretation of the term. Persons self-identifying with 'English' as their primary ethnic origin as part of the 2001 census - Quebec included - totaled slightly less than 6,000,000 persons. However, many Canadians who identify other ethnic origins for the purpose of the census might identify as 'English Canadian' in the broader sense of 'English-speaking Canadians' and possibly share some cultural affinities with the group identifying itself as 'English Canadian' in the more limited sense.
Of the total population of the provinces outside Quebec, the following numbers provide an approximation of the two largest religious groupings: *Protestant: 8,329,260; *Roman Catholic: 6,997,190.
It is fair to assume that persons identifying themselves as Roman Catholic outside Quebec would include many non-English ethnicities such as Francophone populations[citation needed], Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Hispanic, German, and many other origins.
Those claiming no religious affiliation in 2001 numbered 4,586,900.
For comparison purposes, other religious groups in the provinces other than Quebec in 2001:
- Orthodox Christian: 379,245
- Other Christian: 723,700
- Muslim: 471,620
- Jewish: 340,080
- Hindu: 272,675
- Sikh: 270,185
- Buddhist: 258,965
In sum, while the single largest religious affiliation of 'English Canadians' - in the Rest of Canada sense of the term - may for convenience be slotted under the different Christian religions called Protestantism, it still represents a minority of the population at less than 37%. So-called 'English Canadians' include a large segment who do not identify as Christian. Even with a clear majority of almost 73%, English Canadian Christians represent a large diversity of beliefs that makes it exceedingly difficult to accurately portray religion as a defining characteristic.
Humour, often ironic and self-deprecating, played an important role particularly in early Canadian literature in English, such as Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Stephen Leacock.
In Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Margaret Atwood's seminal book on Canadian Literature published in 1973, the author argues that much of Canadian literature in both English and French is linked thematically to the notion of personal and collective survival. This theme continues to reappear in more recent literary works, such as Yann Martel's Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Booker Prize.
In the 1970s authors such as Margaret Laurence in The Stone Angel and Robertson Davies in Fifth Business explored the changing worlds of small town Manitoba and Ontario respectively. Works of fiction such as these gave an entire generation of Canadians access to literature about themselves and helped shape a more general appreciation of the experiences of English-speaking Canadians in that era.
In the early years of the twentieth century painters in both central Canada and the west coast began applying post-impressionist style to Canadian landscape paintings. Painters such as Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, which included painters such as A.Y. Jackson, captured images of the wilderness in ways that forced English Canadians to discard their conservative and traditional views of art. In British Columbia, Emily Carr, born in Victoria in 1871, spent much of her life painting. Her early paintings of northwest coast aboriginal villages were critical to creating awareness and appreciation of First Nations cultures among English Canadians. The Arctic paintings of Lawren Harris, another member of the Group of Seven, are also highly iconic for English Canadians.
Heroes, heroines and national myths[edit]
From colonial times the arrival and settlement of the first pioneers, the fur trade empire established by the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company - although the fur company histories are more relevant to French Canadians, Métis and Scottish Canadians. - and the mass resettlement of refugee Loyalists are important starting points for some English Canadians. Some have argued that the Loyalist myth, so often accepted without second thought, represents also a collective English Canadian myth-making enterprise[34]
The War of 1812 produced one of the earliest national heroes, Laura Secord,[35] who is credited with having made her way through American lines at night to carry a warning to British troops of impending American plans and contributing to the victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams, where the American advance into Upper Canada was turned back.
The War of 1812 also saw the capture and burning of Washington, D.C. by the British in August 1814, an event still remembered in English Canada. The War of 1812 itself, to which Canadian and aboriginal militia forces made important contributions, is viewed as the event that ensured the survival of the colonies that would become Canada, or, as termed by the critic Northrop Frye "in many respects a war of independence for Canada."[36]
There is an element of the heroic that attaches to Sir John A. Macdonald, the Scottish lawyer from Kingston, Ontario who became Canada's first Prime Minister. His weaknesses (such as an alleged fondness for alcohol, and the multifaceted corruption inherent in the Pacific Scandal) and the controversial events surrounding the rebellions in the west have not erased admiration for his accomplishments in nation building for English Canadians. Macdonald's pragmatism laid the foundation of the national myth of the 'two founding nations' (English and French), which was to endure well into the twentieth century among a strong minority of English Canadians and was eventually reflected in the official government policy that flowed from the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in the 1960s.
Macdonald was also instrumental in the founding of the North-West Mounted Police in 1875, forerunners of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Canada's iconic national police force. The RCMP itself, established to "subdue the West", i.e. the newly acquired Northwest Territories, formerly the HBC's Rupert's Land, as declared in the preamble to its charter. The RCMP, long since eulogized into a moral, symbolic image of Canadian authority, far from its true nature as a paramilitary force commissioned with bringing First Nations and Métis to heel, plays a role in English Canada's perception of itself as a nation of essentially law-abiding citizens that confederated in 1867 for the purposes of establishing peace, order and good government.
The Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 in the Yukon was another event that resonated in the English Canadian imagination, with its stories of adventure and struggle in a harsh northern environment. The myth of the North itself, the forbidding landscape and difficult climate, peopled by the hardy Inuit is of central importance to English Canadians, from Susanna Moodie (whose 'north' was the 'wilderness' of 1830s southern Ontario) to the present, as the myth of the north is reexamined, challenged and reinvented for an increasingly post-colonial culture.[37]
In the twentieth century Tommy Douglas, the politician from Saskatchewan who is credited with the creation of Canada's programme of universal health care has been recognized as the greatest Canadian in a contest sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's national public broadcaster. Lester B. Pearson, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace and Prime Minister of Canada responsible for the adoption of the maple leaf flag, is widely regarded as an English Canadian figure.
Another person who had an enormous impact on English Canadians was British Columbian Terry Fox[38] whose 1981 attempt to run across Canada from St. John's, Newfoundland to the Pacific to raise money for cancer research. Although forced to discontinue the run near Thunder Bay due to a recurrence of his cancer, Terry Fox captured the imagination of millions of Canadians, particularly in the English-speaking provinces.[39] This feat was followed by British Columbian Rick Hansen's successful Man in Motion tour shortly afterwards.[40]
Sports heroes include, among many others, the legendary Wayne Gretzky[41] from Ontario who led the Edmonton Oilers to successive Stanley Cup victories in the 1980s; the women's Olympic hockey team that won the Gold Medal in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and Team Canada that won the famed Canada-Russia hockey series in 1972.[42]
Other significant figures include Nellie McClung[43] (activist in politics and women's rights), Emily Carr (post-impressionist artist),[44] Billy Bishop (World War I airman),[45] Dr. Frederick Banting (co-discover of insulin)[46] and Dr. Norman Bethune (doctor in China).[47] Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is often claimed by English Canada because of his residence on Cape Breton Island, although he was born in Scotland and later moved to the United States.[48]
At the same time, historian and author Charlotte Gray has described Canadians as people who do not do heroes or hero-worship well, preferring instead to celebrate the collective rather than the individual: "[t]he qualities that are celebrated in our national life today are collective virtues - the bravery of our peace-keepers, the compassion of all Canadians for Manitoba's flood victims...individualism has never been celebrated in Canada. It is not a useful quality for a loose federation perched on a magnificent and inhospitable landscape..."[49]
The contribution of French-speaking Canadians to the culture of English Canada is significant. Many popular Canadian symbols such as the maple leaf and the beaver were first adopted by Francophones. Francophone sports figures (particularly in hockey and figure-skating) have always been highly regarded. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister in the early 20th century, is viewed as an important statesman in English Canada. A more controversial figure is Pierre Trudeau, who is often praised for his handling of the October Crisis[50] (also known as the FLQ Crisis) and the process of constitutional reform that implemented the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but who also caused considerable Western Alienation and has been criticised for the critical failure to bring Quebec into the 1982 agreement on constitutional reform. Trudeau was nevertheless ranked 3rd in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's contest to choose The Greatest Canadian. Most recently, Haitian-born Francophone Michaëlle Jean, the current Governor-General, has overcome some initial misgivings regarding her appointment. The motto chosen for her arms, Briser les solitudes (break down the solitudes), echoes one of the significant works of early English Canadian fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes which describes the sometimes painful separateness dividing Canada's English and French-speaking populations.
Canada's role in the First[51] and Second World Wars played a large part in the political evolution of Canada and the identity of English Canadians. After the fall of France in 1940 and prior to the entry of the United States into the war in 1942, Canada saw itself as Britain's principal ally against Adolf Hitler. The well-known poem In Flanders Fields, written during the First World War by John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, is associated with Remembrance Day.
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The RCMP "Mountie" has become a figure associated with Canada in the popular imagination of not only Canada, but other countries as well. Although it has many Francophone officers, in popular culture the mountie has been typically represented by an anglophone, such as Dudley Do-Right, Benton Fraser or Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. The myth of the stalwart (if somewhat rustic) heroic Canadian also appeared in the form of Johnny Canuck, a comic book figure of the mid-twentieth century.
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery of Prince Edward Island is one of English Canada's best known contribution to general popular culture. The themes of gentle slapstick and ironic but affectionate observation of small-town Canadian life that appeared in the work of Stephen Leacock carried forward into the later part of the twentieth century to reappear in successful television sitcoms such as The Beachcombers, Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Canadian humour took on an even broader form in the comedy of SCTV, in particular the Great White North sketches, The Red Green Show and more recently Trailer Park Boys.
Traditional music in much of English-speaking Canada has sources in the music of Scotland and Ireland, brought to Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces in the 19th century. In the late 20th Century, Maritime artists, particularly musicians from Cape Breton Island such as Rita MacNeil, the Rankin Family, Natalie MacMaster and Ashley MacIsaac and Great Big Sea from Newfoundland achieved substantial popularity and influence throughout English Canada. A Celtic influence is similarly felt in the work of musicians from other parts of Canada, such as Spirit of the West, from British Columbia, or Manitoba-born Loreena McKennitt.
See also[edit]
- English-speaking Quebecer
- English people
- England
- British North America
- French Canadian
- Culture of Canada
- English Canada
- List of Canadians of English descent
- British diaspora in Africa
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- ^ Bell placed 9th in The Greatest Canadian
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Mr. Lévesque's judgment was not shared by many. As in the rest of Canada, opinion polls showed overwhelming support in Quebec for the War Measures Act.
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- Margaret A. Ormsby, (1958) British Columbia: a History, The MacMillan Company of Canada
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- Terry Reksten, (1986) More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria, Orca Book Publishers
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Life for a Mission family hasn't been the same since its youngest member was diagnosed with leukemia more than a month ago.
Four-year old Peyton had been sick for three weeks before tests revealed the disease, said her mother Jenn Ferguson.
She knew something was wrong when the usually energetic Peyton wasn't herself. She was tired all the time, but didn't have a runny nose or a cough. Doctors originally said it was a viral infection, explained Ferguson.
"April 27 was when everything crashed on us."
Ferguson was at work when she received news from her boyfriend that her youngest daughter wasn't doing well. Ferguson's father took Peyton to the doctor's office, but they soon found themselves at the hospital in Abbotsford where the young girl was hooked up to oxygen and an IV.
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Mexico Senate Approves Energy Bill Aimed at Production Boom
Adam Williams and Eric MartinMexico's Senate approved an energy bill that supporters say will make the country the world's fifth-largest oil producer in about a decade, spurring growth in Latin America's second-biggest economy.
Mexican senators passed the bill in general terms near midnight to permit foreign companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. to drill for oil for the first time since 1938. Senators today sent the proposal to the lower house for approval, rejecting most changes after more than 20 hours of debate, according to an e-mailed statement from the Senate.
Mexico is the world's ninth-largest oil producer, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and possesses the biggest unexplored crude area after the Arctic Circle. Industry analysts and the bill's authors say the overhaul will reverse eight years of oil output declines for Petroleos Mexicanos and increase production to as much as 4 million barrels per day by 2025. The plan would change the constitution to allow production sharing and licenses for outside companies that will also be able to log crude reserves for accounting purposes.
"With reform there will undoubtedly be a spurt of production growth as Mexico is a very rich hydrocarbon area both onshore and offshore," Ed Morse, the New York-based head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc., said in a phone interview before the vote. "Realistically, it could double the amount of oil that Mexico produces."
Falling Production
The bill drew its support from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which President Enrique Pena Nieto returned to power one year ago; the National Action Party and the Green Party. Lawmakers from the Democratic Revolution Party and smaller allied parties opposed it, with some interrupting debate, first by draping a banner across the Senate podium and later by singing the national anthem.
Mexico's oil production has fallen 25 percent to 2.5 million barrels per day from a high of 3.3 million in 2004, according to the state-owned oil company known as Pemex. Should Mexican output reach 4 million daily barrels by 2025, it could surpass Canada to become the world's fifth-largest producer, given current production levels.
"It would put Mexico in the same level as the next tier of world producers," Morse said. "It could return Mexico to one of the top five oil exporting countries in the world, which is around the same level where they used to be."
Because the overhaul changes the constitution, it needs approval from at least two thirds of both the Senate and lower house. The floor debate in the lower house may begin on Dec. 14, according to Mexico City-based newspaper Reforma.
'Truly Transformational'
Pena Nieto's government forecasts the initiative will attract investment and spur production that will boost Mexico's annual gross domestic product growth by 1 percentage point by 2018. The Finance Ministry projects the economy will expand 1.3 percent this year, down from 3.9 percent in each of the past two years and the least since the 2009 recession.
"The bill could attract sizable foreign investment from 2015 onwards and help develop the significant potential of the oil and gas sector in Mexico," Alberto Ramos, chief Latin American economist for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said in a Dec. 8 research report. "The potential impact on Mexico's widely-perceived inefficient and under-invested energy sector could be truly transformational."
Board Reduction
The bill also approves the removal of all five representatives of the Pemex workers' union from the company's board of directors. Under the new legislation, Pemex's board would be trimmed to 10 from 15. It would consist of five government members, including the energy minister as board president, and five professional advisers.
"We are promoting an energy model that strengthens Pemex in two ways: by internal reorganization and by creating an internal government that's more efficient and effective than what it currently has," said Institutional Revolutionary Party senator David Penchyna, who heads the Senate energy committee. "Both are included in the reform."
The removal of the Pemex union members from the board, which was proposed by the National Action Party, or PAN, would be another victory for Mexico's largest opposition party. The legislation also includes the creation of a sovereign fund to manage oil profits, which was part of the PAN's original proposal.
The energy overhaul includes 85 percent of the PAN's proposal, party President Gustavo Madero said yesterday in Mexico City.
Start Your Engines
The reform "will allow Mexico to set back into motion engines that have been shut down, to foment growth, to foment more investment and to foment more employment," Madero said.
The Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, and allied parties argue the bill will funnel the nation's oil revenue to foreign companies and that Mexico doesn't have the regulatory framework to effectively oversee the industry.
Natural gas production would almost double to as much as 10.4 billion cubic feet by 2025 from current output of 5.7 billion feet, according to the bill. Approval of the overhaul could convert Mexico into a natural gas exporter, Morse said.
"The resource base for natural gas in Mexico is abundant, would be cheap if developed and would enable Mexico to resume a faster pace of industrial development and GDP growth," he said.
Wave of Exploration
Easing restrictions that have barred the largest international oil explorers from drilling in Mexico for three-quarters of a century will help Pemex revive output and crack vast shale formations, said Brian Youngberg, a St. Louis-based analyst at Edward Jones & Co. who covers oil producers including Chevron and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Opening the oil industry to foreign drillers could unleash a wave of exploration equaling Iraq in recent years, Youngberg said. Mexico's deep-water prospects in the Gulf of Mexico would be attractive to Exxon and Chevron, while shale tracts would interest EOG Resources Inc. and ConocoPhillips, he said.
"It is looking better every day but it is not yet official," Youngberg said in a telephone interview on Dec. 9. Enticing foreign investment "should jump start production and get it moving back in the right direction," he said.


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'I had my moment' says WRCA senior
The stat line, printed near the bottom of the box score at the end of the basketball game, was unremarkable.
It suggested the type of performance one might expect from a bench-warming underclassman, thrown into the game by a coach in the mean-nothing minutes of a blowout victory.
Even the most ardent hoops fan would have trouble discerning much more of note from the single line of type that followed Erik Fougner's name: 0/1 FG, 0/1 3PT, 0 PTS, 0 REB, 0:35 MIN
In layman's terms, it meant Erik, a Grade 12 forward with the White Rock Christian Academy Warriors, was credited with one shot that missed, in 35 seconds of playing time (though both he and coach Dale Shury insist the game clock read 58 seconds when he subbed into the game).
The Grade 12 forward has had better games, of course. He's scored more, and rebounded better, and played a more integral role in his team's fortunes. And, without doubt, he's had games where he's hit the court for longer than the one minute of action – give or take a few ticks – that he saw last week, at the tail-end of the second quarter during WRCA's win over the Mount Baker Wild on the opening day of BC High School Boys Basketball Championships March 13.
But still, he's hard-pressed to remember a game that meant more to him.
After all, any stat line beats the three-letter acronym that had been attached to his name since the Warriors first took the court last fall: DNP (Did Not Play).
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On the second day of the provincial tournament at the Langley Events Centre – shortly after White Rock had dispatched higher-seeded St. George's Saints in a one-point overtime game that ended as one of the week's most thrilling – Shury talked to his team about moments.
"That's what this tournament is all about," he told his team. "It's not always about winning everything. It's about all the little moments along the way. You guys now have your little place in history at this tournament, because it's these overtime games that get talked about for years."
He was talking, of course, to all 16 of his players, but one – Erik Fougner – did not have to be convinced.
Erik's moment came the day before in his brief appearance against Mount Baker.
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Erik is the third son in his family to play basketball at WRCA. Brother Rob – who now lives in New Zealand – won a provincial title with the Warriors in 2005, and Brian played until graduating in 2008.
And ever since Rob first started in the school's hoops program, it's truly been a family affair. Parents Bruce and Wendy, who own Lloyds Travel and Cruises in Vancouver, have for years organized travel plans for the team's tournaments and trips. Bruce has also been the voice of the Warriors as the in-game announcer at home games.
And as veterans of the program, they all had a pretty good idea of how the season would shake down.
There would be plenty of practices, a lot of games against some of the province's top teams, at least a few prestigious tournaments out-of-town, plus – hopefully – a long playoff run, culminating in provincials.
Those plans came to a dramatic, and painful, halt in September, however, during the team's annual alumni game that pits the school's former players against the current crop in a friendly game at the WRCA gym. Neither of Erik's older brothers were in the alumni lineup – Rob was in New Zealand, Brian in Quebec – and Erik did not last as long on the court as he would have liked, either.
Midway through the game, Erik drove untouched through the lane and attempted a tricky pro-hop before laying the ball up towards the hoop.
"It was the first time I've ever tried that move, and I was going too fast, I guess, and when I came down, my knee just popped," he recalled.
And that was it. Season over. Two months before it was even slated to officially begin.
His ill-timed hop resulted in a completely torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) in his left knee, as well as a partially torn MCL (mediate cruciate ligament) and a sprained meniscus, requiring surgery to repair.
His doctors told him recovery time can be as long as a year.
"Hearing that, it made it just even more earth-shattering," he said. "It was tough on all of us… it wasn't the year we had planned.
"It took awhile for it to sink in. I was pretty bummed... I just stuck close to my family, didn't really go out much at all. It changes who you are. You see yourself as an athlete for so long – your whole life – and then all of a sudden, it's something you can't be.
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In the official program for the BC High School Boys Basketball Championships, there are two pages dedicated to families.
The first details every father-son duo to have played in the event, while the second is a list of siblings who've all hit the court in various years.
Before this year, Erik was already listed alongside Rob and Brian, by virtue of a 2008 appearance when, as a Grade 8, former WRCA coach Scott Allen threw him on a court for a few minutes so he'd get the chance to play with Brian, a senior.
And while it was a nice moment, it was still not the same as playing as a senior. He didn't get the chance last year, as a Grade 11, because WRCA failed to qualify for provincials for the first time in 12 years.
It's why, in the days leading up to White Rock's opening game of the provincials, Erik told his coach he wanted in.
"Because he'd had played before as a Grade 8, I guess I kind of took it for granted that it wasn't all that important to him, but I guess I was wrong," Shury said.
Shury didn't make any promises, because he knew it might be one he'd have to break. Though Erik is recovering, he is still not medically cleared, and could not risk being stuck out on the court for long.
With coaches not allowed to make substitutions after timeouts, Erik had to hope there would be stoppage with a minute or so left in a quarter, so he could be subbed out when the clocked ran out.
The opportunity came before halftime, with WRCA enjoying a double-digit lead.
Shury told Erik he was in, and he was to replace Alex Filipovic.
"Alex looked at me, and I think he was a little confused at first," Erik explained.
"I felt comfortable out there right away, though. I felt like myself again."
Before the buzzer ended the half, he managed his lone shot – a three-point attempt. And though it missed, Erik didn't much care.
As he made his way under the bleachers, on his way to the locker room for halftime, he walked up to Shury, wrapped him up in a big hug, and said, 'thanks, coach."
He wasn't the only Fougner to thank Shury, either. After the game, Bruce wandered down towards the court and mouthed the words.
"I didn't realize how much it meant," Shury said.
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WRCA finished third at provincials, and Erik never saw another second of playing time before his high school career ended.
He has about two months of rehab left on his injured knee, after which he plans on attending Queen's University, where he will try to walk on to the basketball team.
But all that will come in time.
For now, he's still relishing his 58 seconds of glory.
"My brothers went through the program, and this was something I'd been looking forward to my whole life, so I'm over the moon with the minute I played," Erik said.
"I didn't think I'd ever get in. I got my moment."


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Jewish World Review Dec. 6, 2010 / 29 Kislev, 5771 Can You Keep A Secret? By Alan Douglas
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Company parties, family gatherings, New Year's Eve confessions, can all be sources of confidential information. But what is really confidential? There are a lot of people who entrust others with their secrets. They expect the information they share to remain a secret. Some of it is gossip, some is venting, some is given while asking for advice, and some is just the desire to talk. Before you share your secrets with another person, you should understand the difference between legally privileged communications that are protected by the law, and what and when that information is not protected. Don't confuse secrets, confidential information, and privileged communications. I can't describe all of these adequately in this column, but I can give you enough information to start you thinking about it BEFORE you speak, or listen, and get yourself in trouble.
You can determine who you trust and who do not trust to pass along what you tell them. The law determines who, what information, and under what circumstances, information can be withheld. It is not easy to pick the "who" part, since it changes. Talk about your taxes and how you cheated the United States government by writing off your vacation as a business expense to your attorney and it is privileged. Express your guilt and sorrow over the transgression to your clergy and it is privileged. Tell it to your accountant and it is not protected. In Europe, rule for accountants are different. In Europe the accountants are so smart that many accounting firms own and control law firms. Therefore, the smart European accountants also are afforded legal privilege for communications with clients. So, if you talk to your attorney, who has an accountant on their staff, it is privileged, even in the United States. Tell your boss or the friendly, concerned Human Resources Manager, or anyone else in the company, something "in confidence" and you might as well shout it from the rooftop. There is no "in confidence" unless a Court says there is. Even Confidentiality Agreements or clauses in contracts meant to keep information confidential, don't hold water unless there is a specific legal provision protecting the people, the type of information, and the circumstances.
The "what" is said, can trip you up. If it is a real threat of a crime, your doctor or psychiatrist may be forced to snitch on you. The rules of religious orders, medical, and legal professions, may impose higher or lower (but different) standards than what you think. Whistle blowers are protected sort of, maybe; under the law. But only if a Whistle Blower blows the whistle in precisely the right way, about the right things. And the courts are still debating what that is.
When speaking to reporters, do not fall into the freedom of the press trap. The privilege to keep things confidential is not generally recognized by the courts. And more importantly, it is the press, the reporter, and their corporate media giant, that is being protected, not you, the source. In addition to the legal media issues, remember that "off the record," much like "beauty", is in the eye of the beholder. Most reporters demand you must play the "Mother May I" game. You have to say, "Off the record" and they have to agree to keep it "Off the record," before you spill your guts. A retroactive, "You can't use my name" or "That is just background" after you told a reporter, is worthless. And even if you and the reporter think it won't get out, do not count on the reporter's editor, a judge, or the reporter's wife keeping your name and information secret.
Lawyers are generally allowed to violate even privileged, protected, information given them by their clients, to defend themselves against charges of wrongdoing, and in an action by the lawyer to collect their fees. So, think twice before you badmouth or stiff your attorney. And if someone else sues your attorney related to their representation of you, be forewarned that your attorney may be able to spill the beans about you.
Be careful not to promise that you won't tell a soul, or that someone's secret is safe with you, when you can't keep your word. Your colleague at work isn't just your friend. You are both employees of an organization. The organization where you earn your living is the same one to which you have a duty of loyalty and legal obligations. When you obtain information, you may be obligated to inform your boss. Learn to stop people who are about to tell you gossip and dangerous secrets. If someone tells you they are stealing, playing with the budget, numbers, or backdating, you may be required to raise the alarm. You may have information of a crime related to fraud, securities violations, or worse, once your friend boasts about getting away with a sordid act. Be prepared to stop them from telling you what you really do not want to know. Remind them that including you in a group sharing toxic information, is like exposing you to radiation.
This isn't to say that you can't tell and listen to secrets. It is to remind you that a secret, confidential information, and privileged communications, are all different based on what, where, how, who, and when you spilled the beans.
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Alzheimer's tele-workshop set for April 23
The Alzheimer's Society of B.C. will be hosting a tele-workshop on April 23.
The free sessions allow people to connect online (momentum.adobeconnect.com/alzheimerbc, enter as 'guest') or by phone (call 1-866-994-7745, then enter passcode 1122333).
The workshop is designed for family caregivers but is also open to healthcare providers.
After the session, there is a question-and-answer period.
For more information on the workshops, visit www.alzheimerbc.org/We-Can-Help/Telephone-Workshops.aspx
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To mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of Miguel de Cervantes, an exploration of why `Don Quixote', the book said to mark the beginnings of the novel, also mapped out the genre's possibilites and foresaw its possible ends.
The distinguished Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes reflects on his lifelong obsession with the book; celebrated Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa explains its particular significance for Latin American fiction; and American writer Robert Coover explores its inspiration for artists and all impossible dreamers.
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