books.google.ca - At Confederation, most French Canadians felt their homeland was Quebec; they supported the new arrangement because it separated Quebec from Ontario, creating an autonomous French-Canadian province loosely associated with the others. Unaware of other French-Canadian groups in British North America, Quebeckers...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_French_Canadian_Idea_of_Confederatio.html?id=tipNL7l7FbQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe French-Canadian Idea of Confederation