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Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945

Courteaux, Olivier, author

Overview

The relationship between Canada and France has always been complicated by the Canadian federal government's relations with Quebec. In this first study of Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War, Olivier Courteaux demonstrates how Canada's wartime foreign policy was shaped by the country's internal divides. As Courteaux shows, Quebec's vocal nationalist minority came to openly support France's fascist Vichy regime and resented Canada's involvement in a 'British' war, while English Canada was largely sympathetic to de Gaulle's Free French movement and accepted its duty to aid embattled Mother Britain. Meanwhile, on the world stage, Canada deftly juggled ties with both French factions to appease Great Britain and the United States before eventually giving full support to the Free French movement.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. / Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Histoire diplomatique. / Aussenpolitik. / Freies Frankreich. / Canada Foreign relations France. / France Foreign relations Canada. / France Foreign relations 1940-1945. / Canada Foreign relations 1918-1945. / Canada Relations extâerieures France. / France Relations extâerieures Canada. / France Relations extâerieures 1940-1945. / Canada Relations extâerieures 1918-1945. / Kanada. / Vichy-Regime.
• ISBN: 9781442644649, 1442644648, 9781442612785, 1442612789

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