caa a22 4500 386321426 CHVBK 20180307111628.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e19881001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x doi S0017257X00006308 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x Feaver George Letter from Canada [Elektronische Daten] [George Feaver] BRITISH READERS MAY RECOLLECT MARTIN'S POIGNANT expression of regret, in Voltaire's Candide, that the French and English had felt it necessary to go to war in North America over ‘quelques arpents de neige vers le Canada'. Martin captures the sense of an enduring European perception of Canada — an indeterminate expanse of ice and snow held firmly in winter's Arctic grip throughout much of the year. His sardonic utterance reminds us of the overseas rivalries of Canada's European parents out of which were born its historic ‘two solitudes', its distinct linguistic and cultural communities, one proudly French, the other British in descent, their entwined affairs remaining persistently refractory long after the eventual emergence from its colonial past of present-day Canada. Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 23/4(1988-10-01), 471-486 0017-257X 23:4<471 1988 23 GOV https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1988.tb00100.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Feaver George NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Government and Opposition Cambridge University Press 23/4(1988-10-01), 471-486 0017-257X 23:4<471 1988 23 GOV CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge