Canada is ‘tricultural’: English, French and aboriginal
Canada
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Indigenous Peoples
From the CBC Digital Archives, online: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/canada-is-actually-tricultural" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/canada-is-actually-tricultural:</a><br /><blockquote>The Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism has forgotten one of the country's founding nations -- Native Canadians. Mrs. Monteur of the National Indian Council insists that rather than being bicultural, Canada is actually "tricultural." Monteur addresses commission members on their cross-country tour, as heard in this 1963 CBC Radio recording. Commission members also hear a humorous account from Walter Bossey of the Canadian Mosaic Federation. He tells the story of his large family and their various intercultural marriages. His third-born son, for example, married a Jewish immigrant. And one of his daughters married a Canadian from Scotland. After submitting these as arguments for why his country is not just French and English, he asks: "Who are we now?"</blockquote>
CBC Radio, Sunday Morning Magazine
CBC Radio, Sunday Morning Magazine, via CBC Digital Archives: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/canada-is-actually-tricultural
CBC Radio
Nov. 10, 1963
Guest(s):
Walter Bossey, Mrs. Monteur
Host:
Bruce Rogers
(c) CBC Radio
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Speech: "Fifty years later: The legacy of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism – Notes for an address at a conference at the Université de Moncton"
Canada
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
This hyperlink leads to an archived speech given by then-Commissioner of Official Languages, Graham Fraser. Commissioner Fraser was addressing the historical legacy of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. His speech also provided some interesting background to the creation of this Royal Commission.
Former Commissioner of Official Languages, Graham Fraser, in his capacity as Commissioner.
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, online: <a href="http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2013/2013-06-14" target="_blank">http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2013/2013-06-14</a>
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, online: <a href="Office%20of%20the%20Commissioner%20of%20Official%20Languages,%20online%3A%20http%3A//www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2013/2013-06-14" target="_blank">http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2013/2013-06-14</a>
June 14, 2013
(c) Government of Canada
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Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV: The Cultural Contributions of the Other Ethnic Groups
Canada
multiculturalism
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
This report is Book Four of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. It focuses on the contributions of other ethnic groups to the Canadian confederation. The terms of reference of this Commission included the direction to consider the contributions that other ethnic group (that is, other than what were described as the 'two founding nations', the French and the English) have made to the cultural enrichment of Canada and what steps could be taken to safeguard that contribution. This section of the Royal Commission's Report focuses on this portion of the mandate of the Commission.
Notably, the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism set the foundation for the adoption of multiculturalism as an official policy of Canada.
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
<em>Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV: The Cultural Contributions of the Other Ethnic Groups</em> (Ottawa: Queens Printer, 1969), via: Government of Canada Publications, online:<a href="Government%20of%20Canada%20Publications,%20online%3A%20http%3A//publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.699865&sl=0" target="_blank"> http://publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.699865&sl=0</a>
<em>Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Book IV: The Cultural Contributions of the Other Ethnic Groups</em> (Ottawa: Queens Printer, 1969)
1969
(c) Government of Canada
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Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration. Report and Evidence, 1885.
Canada, Chinese migrants, Immigration, Chinese head tax
This image shows the first page of the Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration. Report and Evidence, 1885. The recommendations of this report ultimately led to the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, which imposed a head tax upon Chinese individuals wishing to enter Canada.
Government of Canada
Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration
Chapleau, Joseph-Adolphe, Sir, 1840-1898
Gray, John Hamilton, 1814-1889
Library and Archives Canada, Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration. Report and Evidence, 1885.
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: http://www.pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/royal-commission-on-chinese-immigration-1885
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924023463940
Ottawa : Printed by order of the Commission
1885
Cornell University Library
Public domain
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