Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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KITES If I could be a kite, Up I would make my flight, And see the harbour far below Up and up I would go Until I was out of sight. - David Green THE SEASONg In the pretty Autumn days. The leaves are full of colour. And then winter appears And trees are white and gold. Although it is so cold It is so beautiful And Christmas is so good. The spring appears With things so queer And people are so happy, The snow has just about disappeared. Then the real warmth begins. And flowers bloom all over And people go picnicking with their kin And green is spread all over. - Tony Cole L4

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THE QUEBEC SEPARATIST MOVEMENT The Quebec Separatist Movement can be said to be another Montreal ' fad ' - an idea that grew up in one of the larger cities of- the world. But the movement cannot be easily dismissed as short-lived or localized, for the idea has been taken up in various other Quebec regions and, often as not, the Separatists have allied themselves with a group of long-standing - the New Canadian Flag Movement. In the city of Montreal you can see fairly easily where the idea of separatism comes from: - the Cote des Neiges, the generally poorer and more ' arty ' part of the city. Along Sherbrooke Street, the main shopping centre, the separatist signs (if any) are small, few and far between. In the former district one can see ' A Bas Canada ' , ' Vive Quebec ' , ' Vive les Separatistes ' scrawled in point letters a foot high on walls - and surprisingly, on top of them, ' Vive le Canada ' - which shows that the separatists are not too strong even in the Cote des Neiges » But have these separatist feelings had roots in early Canadian history? One can be sure they have. Between 1600 and I763 the ' habitants ' of New France carved out large farm holdings for themselves (which them a sense of independent thought), but were largely dependent upon France, as its colony in America was rich only in ' fish, furs - firewater ' - the latter product being brought in from France o Around I8I4.O, L . J . Papineau started a Quebec Separatist Movement which found faults with the British Government after I763 . This movement culminated in the defeat of the Revolution of 1837. Have any of the Acts passed in Parliament between 1774 and I8I4.O caused some of this separatism? Yes, one can believe so . In 1774 was passed the Quebec Act which gave Quebec extensive territories to the south of the Great Lakes. This gave the habitants a sense of power over the hemmed-in English colonists to the south which was rudely shuttered by the War of Independence that led to the loss of these areas. The French naturally, were indignant about the English.