Definitely important. One of the students I'm supervising had an ancestor at the Windmill and one of my ancestors was there as well. We were out after class one night hoisting a few with some other students, and the look of incredulity when we both started talking about it on the face of one student from the Middle East was really hilarious
. He just couldn't understand why we were drinking and joking together.
Agreed. That "pacification", and I'm STILL wondering who just who got "pacified", laid the basis for one of the core components of Canadian culture that is still a focal point today. What always amazed me about it was that the Catholics (and Catholic Church) in Quebec had exactly the same rights as everyone else - a situation unique in the British Imperium at the time.
We could just link through to it, rather than rewriting it. Yeah, I think we did a lot pretty well. And, when you get right down to it, the gender imbalance didn't hurt either
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