Research Catalog

Title

Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 / Olivier Courteaux.

Author

Courteaux, Olivier.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 257 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Vichy-Regime
• Kanada
• Freies Frankreich
• Außenpolitik
• World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1918-1945
• France > Foreign relations > 1940-1945
• France > Foreign relations > Canada
• Canada > Foreign relations > France
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1914-1945

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Ottawa and the Principle of National Unity -- 2.France's Collapse: "A Painful Controversy" -- 3."To Avoid a Break with France" -- 4.A Canadian in Vichy -- 5.The Apprentice Sorcerer -- 6.Ottawa and Vichy: The Controversy -- 7."The Stick and the Carrot": Washington's French Illusions -- 8.The Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Affair -- 9.The Impossible Rupture, February--October 1942 -- 10.Imbroglio in North Africa -- 11.Questions over Recognition, 1943--1944 -- 12.Missed Opportunities, October 1944--September 1945.

ISBN

• 9781442644649 (bound)
• 1442644648 (bound)
• 9781442612785 (pbk.)
• 1442612789 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library