Editing New France (section)

==Historiography==
The Conquest (referring to the fall of New France to the British, and specifically the events of 1759–60) has always been a central and contested theme of Canadian memory. Some Anglophone historians portray the Conquest as a victory for "British military, political and economic superiority" and argue that it ultimately brought benefits to the French settlers.<ref name=Jaenen/> However, Cornelius Jaenen notes that French-Canadian historians remain strongly divided on the subject. One group sees it as a highly negative economic, political and ideological disaster that threatened a way of life with materialism and Protestantism. At the other pole are those historians who see the positive benefit of enabling the preservation of language, and religion and traditional customs under British rule.<ref name=Jaenen>{{cite book |last=Jaenen |first=Cornelius J. |title=Canada during the French regime |editor-last=Muise |editor-first=D.A. |work=A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Volume 1: Beginnings to Confederation |year=1982 |page=[https://archive.org/details/readersguidetoca0000unse/page/40 40] |isbn=978-0-8020-6442-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/readersguidetoca0000unse/page/40 }}</ref> French-Canadian debates have escalated since the 1960s, as the conquest is seen as a pivotal moment in the history of Québec's nationalism. Francophone historian Jocelyn Létourneau suggested in 2009, that today, "1759 does not belong primarily to a past that we might wish to study and understand, but, rather, to a present and a future that we might wish to shape and control."<ref>{{cite book |first=Jocelyn |last=Létourneau |title=What is to be done with 1759? |editor-first1=Phillip |editor-last1=Buckner |editor-last2=Reid |editor-first2=John G. |work=Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2012 |page=279 |isbn=978-1-4426-9924-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiOOuORbGpAC&pg=PA279}}</ref>

The enduring contestation of the legacy of the Conquest can be exemplified by an episode in 2009, when an attempt to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the battle of the Plains of Abraham was cancelled. The explanation for the cancellation was that it was over security concerns, but activist Sylvain Rocheleau stated, "[I think] they had to cancel the event because it was insulting a majority of Francophones. They had to cancel it because it was a bad idea.".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/organizers-cancel-mock-battle-of-the-plains-of-abraham-1.787562 |title=Organizers cancel mock Battle of the Plains of Abraham |date=17 February 2009 |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] |access-date=13 March 2019 }}</ref>