A Distinct Alien Race by Vermette David G.;

Author:Vermette, David G.; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Baraka Books

The French Canadians are here [in Canada] as a foreign element and it is their aim and boast that they are to remain foreign. Even into the United States they are importing, besides their language and religion, their traditions and aggressive aims.…Their ideal is the formation here, in this corner of the world…of a nation which shall perform on this continent the part France has played so long in Europe. They confess openly that their ideal is to found a nation which shall profess the Catholic faith and speak the French language.…To insist upon British principles in the face of this race ambition is an impossible pretense. The problem that is before Americans as well as Canadians is to assimilate the foreign material that is cast among them….The French in the United States have no intention of becoming citizens themselves, and their priests are taking care that the children of the French shall not aspire after that right.… They point with secret pride to the New-England factory towns, really French villages transported from Québec.

This article regards Canadiens in Canada, as a “foreign element,” as “foreign material cast among” the other “races” of Canada. The French founded Montréal and their descendants had been in that city for two and a half centuries by the 1880s. Yet this writer regards them as just one among other “foreign” elements. This is inconsistent with the theory that the Canadiens were among the “founding peoples” of the Canadian Confederation.

Where the article discusses the Canadien element in the “New-England factory towns,” it errs in stating that the priests were discouraging naturalization. By this date, the Franco-American elites were begging the rank and file to become naturalized and boasting of the numbers who did so. Although the figures were feeble, Ferdinand Gagnon bragged about the numbers of naturalized Franco-Americans at the October 1881 hearing in Boston.9 In 1884, the Times reported that Naturalization was on the agenda at the Albany General Convention as it was a topic at almost every Franco-American convention between 1865 and 1901.

By 1892, the Times is ringing the alarm bells of conspiracy with gusto:

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