tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post9127410269234320662..comments2023-10-26T20:40:47.532+11:00Comments on opɯdʒɯlɯklɑr: Montreal IV: Snapshots from a linguistic conflictopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-63512245007839848642010-09-16T05:32:01.137+10:002010-09-16T05:32:01.137+10:00That's a very interesting survey. I wish you h...That's a very interesting survey. I wish you had also posted photos of le Plateau Mont-Royal where I grew up. It's such a very French and appealing section of Montréal. Specially the streets where the houses have outside second floor stairs, so gracefully curved.Claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04307495672130972111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-47997856132961673052009-07-17T16:44:36.749+10:002009-07-17T16:44:36.749+10:00Victoria was the queen of Canada, certainly; but s...Victoria was the queen of Canada, certainly; but she was not Queen of Canada, as Elizabeth II is. The latter monarch is the first to bear different titles in her different realms, whereas Victoria was "by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith" throughout the British empire, and later "Empress of India" as well. No mention of Canada anywhere, much less Australia or its constituent parts.<br /><br />It's perhaps significant that in Canada (and Grenada) your queen is "of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen" whereas everywhere else her title is "of X and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen", with no specific identification of those other realms. The "Defender of the Faith" bit is found only in Australia, Canada, N.Z., and the U.K.; "Head of the Commonwealth" is used everywhere.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36592052.post-70956579399518173222009-07-16T23:31:40.128+10:002009-07-16T23:31:40.128+10:00A comment from Richard C, left in the alternate di...A comment from Richard C, left in the alternate dissemination of the blog (<i>facebouc</i>):<br /><br />"Constitutionally she was also Queen of Upper Canada including Quebec so the sign is wrong. She was as much constitutionally Queen of Canada as of the UK of GB and NI."<br /><br />Oh, I think the sign-writers knew full well that she was queen of Montreal as much as she was queen of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin (I not NI at the time of course). That the sign doesn't explicitly say so is surely not an accident, it's part of the filtering and reimagining of history. Like I said: <i>empire brittanique</i> sounds like Someone Else's Empire...opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.com