The author treats the complex issues of nation, ethnicity, native peoples, and class in Quebec/Canada at three levels: personal, historiographical, and epistemological. With reference to his "personal and family experience", he reflects on the "validity" of the analyses of these issues offered over the past sixty years. He suggests certain avenues of reflection on the relationship between class domination, nations, democracy, and egalitarian relations. In closing, he underlines the heuristic value of treating these issue through an interdisciplinary approach, particularly a socio-historical one that allows a better circumscription of the real in explaining it.