Canada

Canada Canada has always been a state with two nations. Over the decades the French influence across the country dwindled and there was a rise in English dominance. The core area of French Canada is the Lower St. Lawrence River Valley in the Province of Quebec. This region has long-sought to maintain its language and culture. Life centered highly around the doctrines and holdings of the Roman Catholic Church. The majority of inhabitants earned a living practicing some form of agriculture. As a result the family structure grew to be one of great importance. As with all agrarian societies a premium was placed on children and consequently French-Canada’s birth rate was significantly higher than that of other developed nations. The movement towards an industry-based economy and more progressive regional policies were slow coming, hampered by a dispersed conservative religious base. The World Wars opened the region to a more global outlook and momentum began to build for a reversal of widely held old-world values. This transformation culminated in the June 1960 election of the Liberal Party’s Jean Lesage. Over the next six years under Prime Minister Lesage’s government, French-Canada saw canada, government, quebec, liberal, society, revolution, lubin, cuccioletta, years, under, taschereau, region, quiet, lesage, church, 1960, transformation, saw, result, policies, party’s, over, one, nations, june, jean, global, french-canadian, french, election, economic, during, duplessis, decades, culture, conservative