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To cope with the rival claims of Loyalists and Québécois, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the colony into Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Québec), separated by the Ottawa River.
Parallel to the worldwide independence movements in the 1960s, Québécois separatists fought elections demanding to be “maîtres chez nous” (“masters in our own home ”).
The Québécois can justly claim to be cofounders of the Canadian nation.
The Québécois began to settle here in any great numbers only in the second half of the 19th century, when an enterprising curate, Antoine Labelle of St-Jérôme, promoted it as an alternative for peasants who were otherwise immigrating to New England.
Born Alfred Bessette in 1845, one of a poor Québécois family of 12 children, Brother André was gatekeeper at the monastic Congregation of the Holy Cross.