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Quebeckers before the Quiet Revolution

Quebeckers before the Quiet Revolution. The “Happy Peasants”. Since it’s inception, the people of Quebec were seen as simple, hardworking Canadiens. They were deeply religious - all most all being Roman Catholic.

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Quebeckers before the Quiet Revolution

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  1. Quebeckers before the Quiet Revolution The “Happy Peasants”

  2. Since it’s inception, the people of Quebec were seen as simple, hardworking Canadiens. • They were deeply religious - all most all being Roman Catholic. • The Church encouraged the francophones to continue their rural lifestyle, raising many children to help out on the farm. • The British looked at them as largely uneducated, poor peasants, who connected well with the savages (First Nations people). • This attitude towards the francophone Quebeckers continued to the 20th Century. • The Duplessis government did little to remove this image.

  3. After the Quiet Revolution • After World War II, Quebec, like the rest of Canada, enjoyed economic prosperity. • Long with this, the population grew. People become better educated and the ideas of human rights and individual freedoms of the 1960s spread. • Attitudes in Quebec were changing. The large francophone population realized that they were losing out, not being treated fairly and were looking for change. • An era ended with the death of Maurice Duplessis.

  4. Jean Lesage and the Liberals came into power. • They demanded and received reforms. • Their slogan: Masters of our own house. • The francophones wanted equality with the anglophones. • There was a radical sect - the Front de Liberation du Quebec - FLQ. • Their desire for quick, radical reform lead to the October Crisis in 1970. • Violence and kidnappings forced Prime Minister Trudeau to invoke the War Measures Act.

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