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Voices from Quebec

MONTREAL (CP) - Since
the November provincial
_ election here, the rest
Canada wants more than
ever to understand the
Quebecois, say two Mon-
trealers who have just
edited an unusual an
wideranging anthology.
called Voices FROM

on wai hael Thomas and

Stratford have
led 214 pages con-.

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taining 85 selections 66
Frneth-Canadian writers.
The anthology is

organized as a series of
confrontations: between the
French and English politics
and’ protest, sports and
entertainment, love and
fantasy, and the past and

present,
The work of 4 translators
. if: included,- although “‘trat-
ford, a lanky professor of
English at the University of
Montreal, did about a
of the translations himself.
Stratford says there is no
other book of this knid in

Canada.
“It has to be the best
representative work,” he

said.

Selections include work by
Andre Langevin, Rec

Carrier, Marie-Claire Blais,
Gabrielle Roy and Rejean
Ducharme; songs by Gilles
igneault, Beau Dommage
and Robert Charlebois;
theatre pieces by Antonine
Maillet and Michel Trem-
blay; plus poetry,
photography, cartoons and

inting reproductions.

Alot of material had to be
rejected and -other selec-
tions greatly reduced. ;

“we had an em-
barrassment of riches,”
Stratford said. “It was a
gruesome job.”

“We refused to put in the
old fashioned pict ue
idea of Quebec, except for
two . examples: Louis
Hemon’s. Maria  Chap-
delaine and Aubert de
Gaspe’s description of An
Old-Fashioned Feast.”

Stratford and Michael
Thomas, an English con-
sultant for the testant
School Board of Montreal,
spent| a year reading,

cussing and determining
selection.s
_Ineluded is the FLQ
manifesto, ‘‘which most
people haven’t seen.”

Then there is Pierre
Elliott Trudeau's essay on
the Sorry Tale of Frnech-
Canadian Nationalism,
written in the easly 1960s. In
the selection, Trudeau bears
down hard on separatism,
its brand of nationalism, '
‘ and .the anti-Semitism
among some separatists.

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nothing from the Parli
Quebecois politicians

of recently elected, but “we

have the voices feeding

them, the grass roots ideas
expressed artists.”
‘You couldn’t read this

d book and not make con-

nections,”’ he says. “They
are all there.”
One voice from the past is

Blacks in ¢
have long history _ *

The migration of
blacks to Canada from the

Caribbean in significant:

numbers since the early
19403 tends to give to many
Canadians the impression
that blacks are a new
dimension to the Canadian
mosaic.

This impression lingers
despite the sizeable black

ulation of Nova Scotia.
lacks have established
communities in Nova Scotia
since fleeing the United
the pre-Eman-
riod to escape
slavery. They also settled
elsewhere in Canada,
particularly Ontario.

But by the time the inflow
from the Caribbean started,
the numbers of blacks, with
the exception of the Nova
Scotia communities, were
not significant enough to
stem the impression that a
fundamental change was
being made in the com-
plexion of Canada.

Yet, blacks have long
been part of the Canadian
scene—before the U.S. Civil
War—a visible reminder of
Pe

i o uman beings
and it what it means to be
free. For when they fled
here more than 100 years
ago, they were seeking those

cipation

Canadians hold so°

things

dearly—ireedorh, dignity,
humanity.

Barbara Smucker writes
about that search for
freedom; about .

hearts—that human: beings
should be treated as such,

Underground to Canada is
presented primarily as a

children's book, but adults ~

too should find it appealing.

Its main characters are two .
young slave girls fleeing to -

their
in the

Canada rom
miserable life
American South.
The two girls, abused by
the injustices on a cotton
planta

slave gatcherdas they make

der Division,

Perereirdy

to You

that .
determination to affirm ©
what blacks knew in their -

an, are hounded by ~

that of Mere Marie de
VIncarnation, an “amazing
woman” who, in a letter to
her son, gives an account of
the devastation of an ear-
thquake in Quebec City in

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published by an [an
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Canada

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June 2, 1977, PAGE 3

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their way north. It’s also gd

story aboyt humxn kind
ness, involvin

abolitionists—white an
black—who helped the
as they travelled

hope and perseverence
against great odds.

The title of the book is apt.
The underground railroad
was the treacherous route
north followed by slaves
fleeing to Canada. The
stations were homes and
other places along the way
where abolitionists, hid, fed,
clothed and generally
assisted the slaves.

Barbara Smucker draws
from incidents which did
occur and some of the

abolitionist characters she]

presents represent real

rsonalities. What she pro-
uces is a story represen-
tative ofactual occurrences.
. There is a restaurant in
Toronto called the Un-
derground Railroad. Many
American blacks seek it out
when visiting the city. For
them it has special
significance.

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