Author: rglongore

Alberta did not vote to join Canada. Canada created the province of Alberta. But the province wasn’t empty. Americans had moved in wanting to escape American government. If they had been asked for becoming a province of Canada, there is no answer to give. They were there and they weren’t going to leave. On July…

For a few years, a mantra has been “Canada is broken.” I am a Canadian and I have family from coast to coast, literally. More than that, my family has been on Canadian soil since the late 1600’s. I was born in Ottawa, and I have a French-Canadian name. A part of Canada, not just…

Why is this important? Well, it is more important than being a national holiday for people to have a day off work or classes. My family, the Longpré clan, arrived from France in the late 1600s. The place wasn’t empty. People were already living here. My European ancestors from both paternal and maternal lines were…