but united in a feeling of brotherhood, in a common attachment to the common fatherland." These remarks did much to encourage a united Quebec given the wide circulation of Le Devoir and their position.
Also, George-Etienne Cartier was a Quebec minister who served the Federal Cabinet and was very much in favour of a unified Canada. Symbolic of a rising equality among the French and English of Canada was Sir Wilfrid Laurier who was the first French-Canadian Prime Minister and who, hailed from Quebec. These three individuals did much to aid Quebec in working within the confines of the British North America Act and the Fede
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