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Demanding Publication of Parliamentary Proceedings in French<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Extrait de Ga\u00e9tan Migneault, \u00ab\u202fLe Canada fran\u00e7ais et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u202f: Les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick\u202f\u00bb, dans Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Caron et Marcel Martel, Le Canada fran\u00e7ais et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u202f: Fondements et bilan critique<\/em> (PUL, 2016), p. 20-21 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"To the Honourable Members of the House of Assembly of the province of New Brunswick in\nsession; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The humble request of the undersigned inhabitants of the County of Gloucester states; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas one sixth of the population belongs to the French race, of whom very few of this\nnumber understand the language; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas thousands of inhabitants thus find themselves unable to learn about the debates in\nParliament, in which they are nevertheless interested, as is any other inhabitant of New\nBrunswick; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the undersigned witnessed with regret, in 1864, the rejection of the motion of the member in Parliament for this county requesting that the debates of the Legislative Assembly be translated into French, that is to say: The Debates of the House of Assembly of the Province of\nNew Brunswick and the Journal of the House of the same;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas clause 133 of the Confederation project recognises the fairness of the measure that your\npetitioners hereby request, by stating that: \u201cthe Acts of the Parliament of Canada and the Quebec\nlegislature will be printed and published in both languages\u201d;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas it seems to your petitioners that the time has come for the local legislature to grant the French of this province that which the honourable delegates of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did not think, in their wisdom, they would have to refuse to the\nFrench of the general government; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, your petitioners, trusting in your impartiality and in the fairness of their request,\nask you to agree to the translation of the debates and the journal of the Legislative Assembly, as\nwell as to the translation of public notices issued by the authority of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we shall not cease in our petitions.\" <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 1864, politicians from the British North American colonies met in Charlottetown and Quebec City to lay the foundations of the future Canadian Confederation. Known as the Fathers of Confederation, they adopted 72 resolutions to guide the drafting of the British North America Act (BNAA), later passed by the British Parliament in 1867.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resolution 46, which became section 133 of the BNAA, states that parliamentary institutions and courts of the future Province of Quebec and the federal government shall be bilingual (English and French). This resolution excludes reference the colony of New Brunswick, despite its sizeable French-speaking Acadian minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 72 resolutions were published in the Royal Gazette<\/em> on January 25, 1865, during the New Brunswick election campaign. They provoked debate. Many voters denounced the division of powers between the provinces and the federal government, and New Brunswick\u2019s place in the future Canadian Confederation. Anti-Confederation forces won the election. The new government was fragile, however, and lost power a year later in a subsequent election. These elections took place against the backdrop of a possible invasion of New Brunswick by the Fenians, supporters of Irish independence living in the United States.

One hundred and seventy-nine Acadians from Gloucester County, in the northeast of New Brunswick, took advantage of these debates to promote their linguistic rights. They presented a petition to the Legislative Assembly on June 11 or 12, 1867. The petition demanded that parliamentary proceedings be published in both English and French. Elected officials rejected the petition, just as they had done every previous time since the 1850s when they debated the issue of translating debates. Acadians would have to wait until New Brunswick\u2019s Official Languages Act was passed in 1969, finally making the province bilingual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the document<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>: To the Honourable Members of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick in Parliament assembled; The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Gloucester County humbly represents.

Date :<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong> June 11 or 12, 1867

Reference:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong> Public Archives of New Brunswick, Legislative Assembly fonds, RG4-RS4, petition no. 108, 1867. The petition is also reproduced in Marie-Claire P\u00eetre, \u201cLa revendication des droits linguistiques au XIX e si\u00e8cle dans la P\u00e9ninsule acadienne,\u201d \u00c9galit\u00e9: revue acadienne d\u2019analyse\npolitique<\/em>, vol. 22, 1987-1988, p. 97-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0Les Acadiens et la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration canadienne, with J. Belliveau\u00a0\u00bb, Aujourd\u2019hui l\u2019histoire<\/em>, Ici Radio-Canada, 22 ao\u00fbt 2019.<\/a><\/span>

\u00ab\u00a0Les acadiens face \u00e0 la constitution de 1867\u00a0\u00bb, Format libre<\/em>, Ici Radio-Canada, 4 juillet 2017.<\/a><\/span>

Doucet, Michel. \u00ab\u00a0Les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u00a0\u00bb, L\u2019Acadie Nouvelle<\/em>, 20 f\u00e9vrier 2017.<\/a><\/span>

Migneault, Ga\u00e9tan. \u00ab\u00a0Quand l\u2019Acadie remettait la pendule \u00e0 l\u2019heure de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u00a0\u00bb, OnFr, 21 avril 2017.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printed sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migneault, Ga\u00e9tan. Les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration,<\/em> L\u00e9vis, Les \u00c9ditions de la Francophonie, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migneault, Ga\u00e9tan. \u00ab La reconnaissance l\u00e9gislative accord\u00e9e aux Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick avant la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration (1784 \u00e0 1867) \u00bb, Acadiensis,<\/em> vol. 41, no<\/sup> 2 (\u00e9t\u00e9-automne 2012), p. 109-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migneault, Ga\u00e9tan. \u00ab L\u2019acc\u00e8s de la minorit\u00e9 francophone \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative du Nouveau-Brunswick \u00bb, Acadiensis<\/em>, vol. 47, no<\/sup> 1 (hiver-printemps 2018), p. 140-177.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocher, Fran\u00e7ois. \u00ab Sur les opposants au projet de Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration de 1864 : critiques sur la finalit\u00e9 du r\u00e9gime \u00bb, dans Eug\u00e9nie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon et Guy Laforest (dir.), La Conf\u00e9rence de Qu\u00e9bec de 1864, 150 ans plus tard. Comprendre l\u2019\u00e9mergence de la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration canadienne,<\/em> Qu\u00e9bec, Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2016, p. 191-230.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exiger la publication des travaux parlementaires en fran\u00e7ais Extrait de Ga\u00e9tan Migneault, \u00ab\u202fLe Canada fran\u00e7ais et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u202f: Les Acadiens du Nouveau-Brunswick\u202f\u00bb, dans Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Caron et Marcel Martel, Le Canada fran\u00e7ais et la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration\u202f: Fondements et bilan critique (PUL, 2016), p. 20-21  Aux honorables membres de la chambre d\u2019Assembl\u00e9e de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick en […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60472210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfdu74-jt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60472210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}