Canada First

"Canada First, or, Our New Nationality" is an historical essay by William Alexander Foster, the cofounder of The Canada First movement, that contains the struggles of a nation in the light of a new beginning. The Canada First movement was a Canadian nationalist movement organized in 1868 that promoted the British Protestant component as central to Canadian identity. Foster argued for equality amongst the nations within the British Empire and he called for Canadians to demonstrate patriotism for their new country to replace the old colonial mentality.