"There are more reasons than ever to celebrate our country," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he kicked off the annual Canada Day festivities in Ottawa on Tuesday. The statesman was addressing the 75,000-strong crowd - many of whom were dressed in red and white and waving Canadian flags - that had headed to Parliament Hill to enjoy a day of fun-packed events celebrating the occasion.
Mr Harper reminded the audience that this year marks not only the 141st birthday of the country, but also the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, 150 years since the creation of British Columbia and the 250th anniversary of the establishment of government in Nova Scotia.
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This reading of history forgets how Quebec was founded by French explorers and colonised by French colonists.
Éric Grenier
e colony converged on Quebec City to defend their homeland from the British. These men were not servants of the King, they were not soldiers paid to fight. They were volunteers, from young boys to old men, who took up their hunting rifles and voluntarily put themselves at risk to save their country from invasion. It forgets that these 10,000 men represented about 33% of the entire male population of the colony at the time, an incredible figure.

Quebec City is Canada's "most beautiful" and "most enchanting" and its people should stand proud as it remembers the province's 400 years of history,

QUEBEC CITY (AFP) — Bells rang out across Canada Thursday to mark the founding of Quebec City, at the exact time that French explorer Samuel de Champlain is