How is history taught in Quebec?

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by Acajack

It's too early for any history to have been written about the current crop of Quebec Conservatives.

I was referring to the pre-Union Nationale Conservatives.

Have you heard "Le ciel est bleu, l'infer est rouge"?

[BIMBAM]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

I was referring to the pre-Union Nationale Conservatives.

Have you heard "Le ciel est bleu, l'infer est rouge"?

As a graduate of the Quebec history course, I can tell you that pre-Union Nationale Conservatism is not covered in the curriculum. I don't know if people learn it from French pop culture stuff, as an Anglo I only ever consumed a very modest quantity of French pop culture.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by BIMBAM

As a graduate of the Quebec history course, I can tell you that pre-Union Nationale Conservatism is not covered in the curriculum. I don't know if people learn it from French pop culture stuff, as an Anglo I only ever consumed a very modest quantity of French pop culture.

It's not widely covered in history nor in popular culture. Everything from 1534 to Confederation (1867) gets attention in both. Then you have Louis Riel, Laurier, the WWI conscription crisis. Then it sort of jumps to WWII and another conscription crisis, and then Maurice Duplessis.

Quebec provincial politics must have been really boring from Confederation to Maurice Duplessis.

[barneyg]

Originally Posted by Acajack

It's not widely covered in history nor in popular culture. Everything from 1534 to Confederation (1867) gets attention in both. Then you have Louis Riel, Laurier, the WWI conscription crisis. Then it sort of jumps to WWII and another conscription crisis, and then Maurice Duplessis.

Quebec provincial politics must have been really boring from Confederation to Maurice Duplessis.

My "History of Quebec and Canada" year-long course with time devoted to each topic (disclaimer: 18 years ago, going solely on memory):

- Jacques Cartier (1534) = maybe an hour
- Samuel de Champlain (1608) = a few hours
- how the Natives lived (Huron and Algonquin: good to us, Iroquois and Mohawk: mostly bad to us) = about 2 months
- Nouvelle-France 1608-1759: tough winters, Filles-du-Roy = about 2 more months
- Plains of Abraham (Montcalm vs. Wolfe), then 1763 treaty of Paris: 'we' lose everything, then 1774 Quebec Act = 'we' get some of it back... = about 1 month
- 1837-38 rebellion, then 1848 responsible government = a few hours
- 1867 confederation = maybe an hour
- what was WWI about? I don't know, but we hated the draft = maybe a minute
- what was WWII about? I don't know, but we hated the draft too = maybe a minute
- 1940: women's suffrage (notice how I didn't say 1918) = about 15 minutes
- Duplessis (and more generally the influence of the Catholic Church since 1608) = about 1 month
- Jean Lesage and the Quiet Revolution (mostly the creation of Hydro-Québec) = about 1 month
- October 1970 crisis, PQ election, 1980 referendum = maybe an hour

Unsolved mysteries:
- who are the Acadians?
- was Trudeau the first Prime Minister of Canada?
- had Duplessis been PM of Quebec since 1867 when he died?