Culture and currents of thought

  • Animist
    1500

    Animist

    The aboriginals believe in animist is the belief, that everything that exists in the universe has a spirit, includes animals, objects, plants, stars and even thunder and the wind.
  • Divine right of the Kings

    Divine right of the Kings

    Most people believed in Absolutism where the king was more inpower than the Church.
  • Catholicism

    Catholicism

    When the people believed that that the Roman Catholic had more authority than the King.
  • Founding of the College des Jesuites

    Founding of the College des Jesuites

    One of Quebec City's institutions that was in charge of higher education in New France, this was a school for elite boys.
  • Founding of Ville-Marie

    Founding of Ville-Marie

    Ville-Marie was founded by the Society of Notre-Dame of Montreal this was a place to convert the savages of New France to the European way of life.
  • Royal Government under Louis XIV

    Royal Government under Louis XIV

    Founding of the Grand Seminaire de Quebec
  • Publication of the Catéchisme du diocèse de Québec

    Publication of the Catéchisme du diocèse de Québec

    To ensure that the dogma of the Catholic Church is followed, the clergy printed the catechism. This book explained the faith and practices of the Catholic Church.
  • British Imperialism

    British Imperialism

    The new British colony needed to follow and to reinforce its ties to Great Britain.
  • The creation of La Gazette de Montreal/ The Montreal Gazette

    The creation of La Gazette de Montreal/ The Montreal Gazette

    It was the first bilingual newspaper that was used to formulate opinions of others.
  • Rise of liberalism in Lower Canada

    Rise of liberalism in Lower Canada

    The Patriots in lower Canada revolted against the British control from the ideas of liberalism, they want a representative that the French Canadians have a voice in the government.
  • The Assembly of the Six Counties

    The Assembly of the Six Counties

    An assembly of Patriots leaders and approximately 6,000 followers held in Saint-Charles, Lower Canada.
  • Ultramontanism

    Ultramontanism

    The ideology that preaches submission to the authority in Rome and promots rigous religion practices
  • Anticlericalism

    Anticlericalism

    Certain liberals did not want the Church to take part in the political or social sphere of the province of Quebec. This was anticlericalism.
  • Rise of Capitalism

    Rise of Capitalism

    It is an ideology that was popular at the time, which was an economic system that encourages the concentration of wealth and the control of the means of production by a small number of people, as well as free competition.
  • French Canadian nationalism

    French Canadian nationalism

    The French Canadians wanted to identify themselves with something so the idea of French Canadian nationalism was born. They created this ideology so they could preserve their culture.
  • Canadian Nationalism

    Canadian Nationalism

    The Canadians wanted to be identify themselves with something, which became the ideology of Canadian Nationalism, so the Canadians can be known as a Canadian nation.
  • Agriculturalism

    Agriculturalism

    It was a movement that promoted rural and traditional agricultural way of life
  • Rise of feminism

    Rise of feminism

    It is the ideology that supports women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
  • Rise of the cooperative movement

    Rise of the cooperative movement

    People started to believe in the ideology of cooperative which is an economic system that encourages the pooling of resources and a shared management style, as well as shared profits.
  • Birth of fascism

    Birth of fascism

    An ideology that their must be one leader and everyone must obey, in other words, one race is superior towards other.
  • Growing American influence

    Growing American influence

    The people started to have more leisure time because the economy was finally stable. By having this leisure time the Canadians started to become influenced by the Americans by buying more goods. For example, The Canadians were watching American shows which influenced the style and culture of the Canadians
  • Rise of secularism

    Rise of secularism

    The people believed that the Church is only for spiritual reasons and the Church should not associate themselves with the state, this is when ideology was born.
  • Rise of socialism

    Rise of socialism

    The people started to believe of socialism which was an ideology that was born in Europe and criticized capitalism and the industrial development.
  • Rise of Quebec nationalism

    Rise of Quebec nationalism

    The French Canadians that live in Quebec wanted to identify themselves as a Quebec nation. So, the idea of Quebec nationalism was born. They did this because they wanted to preserve their culture and language.
  • Neoliberalism

    Neoliberalism

    People started to believe in the ideology of neoliberism which was questioning the State's interventionism with the economy. ]
  • Aboriginalism

    Aboriginalism

    Natives understood the concept of a nation and they want the government to recognize and respect their rights as First Nation.