# Historically Protestant French speaking communities in Québec?

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**Created:** [September 12, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historically-protestant-french-speaking-communities-in-quebec/730913 "2015-09-12T20:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historically-protestant-french-speaking-communities-in-quebec/730913/1 "2015-09-12T20:02:37Z")

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The French speaking part of Canada has always been very much dominated by the Catholic Church, even after the British took over. I wonder if there ever was a sizable number of French speaking Protestants (Huguenots) living in Québec during the 17th, 18th and 19th century.

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historically-protestant-french-speaking-communities-in-quebec/730913/2 "2015-09-12T20:57:34Z")

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> [@Donnerwetter](#):
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> The French speaking part of Canada has always been very much dominated by the Catholic Church, even after the British took over. I wonder if there ever was a sizable number of French speaking Protestants (Huguenots) living in Québec during the 17th, 18th and 19th century.

Any Protestant community would’ve developed after the British took over Canada; Huguenots were not allowed to set foot in New France.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historically-protestant-french-speaking-communities-in-quebec/730913/3 "2015-09-13T00:25:14Z")

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A young Wilfrid Laurier got in trouble in his rhetoric class in his Jesuit-run school days by making a compelling speech that the French government should have allowed Huguenots to emigrate to New France.

His Jesuit teachers were not amused.