That is a very good question.
In our preparations for the celebrations in 2017, I hope that, as an organization or with others, we will be able to create a document telling the story of these contacts between anglophones and francophones, without ignoring or trying to hide the negative aspects of the story. The negative story is a fairly easy one to tell, but we tend to forget that there are also examples of mutual accommodation and cooperation.
An example that comes to mind is Lord Elgin, who followed Lord Durham, and who established French as an official language in the legislature. There is also La Fontaine and Baldwin, the language policy supported by John A. Macdonald, the Bonne Entente movement, which contested regulation 17. There is a positive story that is often forgotten.