Talk:Timeline of official languages policy in Canada

Official languages policy, prior to 1867
I have been reading through Claude-Armand Sheppard's exhaustive review of language law in Canada prior to Confederation, and will attempt, over the next while, to gradually add the highlights to this article. His study, published in 1971 for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, is titled "The Law of Languages in Canada".

Hopefully this will help to overcome the popular misconception that somehow the history of language policy in Canada starts in 1867, or worse yet, with the passage of the Official Languages Act in 1969. In reality, good and bad policies on the language front can be traced back to the conquest of Quebec in 1759.

Flint and Fire (talk) 19:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)