u/RaisinNo7609

I am an historic Anglophone, my family arrived here from Italy in the 1960s. They built houses through a company they started, ran a grocery store and helped to serve their communities and (literally) build them.

Every single Quebecois person I talk about this with says that I am not a true Quebec citizen, because I am not a Francophone or Quebecois de souche. The thing I cannot get past, is we are all immigrants. Montreal was native land before it was French colony or conquered by the British on the plains of Abraham.

I am a third generation immigrant, but what is a Quebecois but just another immigrant of the 9th generation or whatever?

So did the work my ancestors did for this province mean nothing? On top of this, while I am fluently bilingual, I only ever use French with the Government. I work for a multinational company and the international language of business is English. While Francophones at work can switch their OS to French according to the OQLF standard. Like, you are not gonna speak French to your boss in Germany. Good luck.

The last thing that truly confuses me, is, I understand when being addressed in English, it can seem like it is an erosion of Quebecois culture and the french language and I am sympathetic to that, but am I not a part of that culture as a 3rd generation immigrant who has invested heavily into this province and pays taxes?

On top of that, unilingual Francophones seem to be celebrating their ignorance and severe self imposed limitations? Why not learn English so you can expand your opprotunites? Same goes for learning French.

Can someone please help to explain,

• What the f am I as a historic anglophone? Am I Quebecois? An outsider? Viewed as another immigrant because I am only 3rd generation and not quebecois de souche? How many generations will it take before I am a Quebecois? That club closed its doors in the 1700s?

• Why should being unilingual be celebrated? The best part about growing up here is being bilingual, I speak French at work to Americans to scare them (joke)

Je parles Francais aussi, alors je peux repondre comme ca

Hi everyone, I have one of these in possession that has a certification paper from 1872.

https://www.antikeo.com/en/catalog/collectibles/scientific-instruments/19th-century-hydrometer-sikes-s-hydrometer-by-joseph-long-126510

I'm curious, what is the best way to get it appraised?

I was at Mount Royal Parc with a small group of friends, when a middle aged looking man started to yell "on est aux Québec parles Francais" with a lot more swear words. I yelled back "Je parles Francais aussi, calme tes totons" he would not stop, got closer and cocked his arm like he was going to throw hands. He started to demand to know what we were talking about in English and I said, we were talking about anime. The funny part for me is he understood the words anime and hentai, Japanese words. This made me laugh which made the situation worse, and just reminded me of the recent national news about the word Nacho being a common noun and not English or French, What is the common response to behavior such as this? Or just someone screaming in your face "on est aux Québec parle francais" like, I speak it to the government, don't worry dude. It doesn't feel right to be yelled at for speaking English, especially when I am a fluently bilingual Anglophone Historique and the government knows everyone like me will be dead one day. Please note I mean this question genuinely, and I sincerely am not trolling, I am just confused and I don't want such a thing to happen again.