Our Christian heritage being air-brushed out

Last week I posted on The Master's Artist about how I was making the stories of Quebec's founding and those of the Jesuit Canadian martyrs and Bishop Laval my own as I grow roots in my adopted country. The post includes some pictures from my trip to Quebec last month.

It's sad though that today the Christian aspect of the story of North America is being airbrushed out. I asked my son who was born here and attended elementary school in the 80s whether he had ever heard of the Canadian martyrs or the Jesuit missionaries. No, they learned only about the fur trade and the Hudson Bay Company. To me that's like learning about Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims but only hearing about the search for gold and commerce, and omitting the Pilgrims' desire to find religious freedom.