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They resented the sending of Canadian troops to South Africa to support the British in the Boer War, and were no more enthusiastic about the Anglo-French alliance in World War I. Bourassa said “The real enemies of French-Canadians are not the Germans but English-Canadian anglicizers, the Ontario intriguers or Irish priests.”
Thus de Boer et al.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Boer War (the struggle between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa) sent shock waves as far as Bermuda.
Thousands of Boer prisoners were shipped to the colony, and prison camps were established on half-a-dozen islands in Great Sound.
In its pages can be found linguistic traces of the former rivalry between Boer and Briton, the naming practices of the Khoi and San (Hottentot and Bushman in former terms), racial conflict (derogatory terms like Boer, Kaffir, and Hottentot each have more than a page devoted to them), the political discourse of the apartheid regime, and the counter-discourse of the resistance movements.