{"id":13199,"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2010-07-23T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T04:00:06","slug":"province-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/23\/province-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"United Province of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Banknote_of_the_Colonial_Bank_of_Canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14017\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Banknote_of_the_Colonial_Bank_of_Canada.jpg\" alt=\"Banknote_of_the_Colonial_Bank_of_Canada\" width=\"445\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Banknote_of_the_Colonial_Bank_of_Canada.jpg 741w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/Banknote_of_the_Colonial_Bank_of_Canada-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1841 the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Province_of_Canada\" target=\"_blank\">United Province of Canada<\/a> was created by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Act_of_Union_%281840%29\" target=\"_blank\">Act of Union<\/a>, which lasted until the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867.<\/p>\n<p>Frye on the &#8220;anarchist tradition&#8221; in Canada in a 1969 interview, &#8220;CRTC Guru&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Frye:<\/strong> There are other things in the Canadian tradition that are worth thinking about.\u00a0 Thirty years ago [in the 1930s] the great radical movement was international Communism, which took no hold in Canada at all.\u00a0 There were Marxist poets, there were no Marxist painters&#8230; The radical movement of our time is anarchist and that means that it&#8217;s local and separate and breaks down into small units.\u00a0 That&#8217;s our tradition and that&#8217;s our genius.\u00a0 Think of Toronto and Montreal (I know Toronto better than Montreal, but I think the same is true of both cities): after the Second World War, we took in displaced persons from Europe to something like one-quarter to one-fifth of the population.\u00a0 In Toronto in 1949, one out of every five people had been there less than a year.\u00a0 We have not had race riots,we have not had ethnic riots, we have not had the tremendous pressures and collisions that they&#8217;ve had in American cities.\u00a0 Because Canada is naturally anarchist, these people settle down into their own communities; they work with other communities and the whole pattern of life fits it.\u00a0 I do think we have to keep a very wide open and sympathetic eye towards radical movements in Canada, because they will be of the anarchist kind and they will be of a kind of energy that we could help liberate.\u00a0 (<em>CW <\/em>24, 92)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1841 the United Province of Canada was created by the Act of Union, which lasted until the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. 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