Author: Jason Zuidema
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them. This collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring historical perspective on this often misunderstood or forgotten religious minority.
Author: Victor E Graham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597762
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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It is well known that even after several years' exposure to high-school French, most English Canadians remain unable to speak the language. It is equally well known that many French Canadians are bilingual. One of the more obvious explanations for this relative deficiency on the part of the English Canadian is his lack of opportunities to use the French language in day-to-day situations, and, conversely, the French Canadian's need to know the second language, too often perhaps for economic reasons. Professor Graham's book gives useful and practical suggestions on how to go about becoming fluent in French. It offers not a course of instruction, but a listing of practical ways of applying oneself to a study of the language. There is specific, up-to-date information and advice regarding services provided by the governments of Quebec and France, courses offered in various Canadian communities, clubs and societies, correspondence courses, universities and summer schools, and language laboratories. A feature which will be especially helpful for those in remote areas is the listing of publications (books, newspapers, and periodicals), music and songs, records, films, and radio and television programmes which provide instruction in French. The reader will quickly see that the available means are much more varied than he realizes, and it is in providing this concise, convenient enumeration of them that Professor Graham performs a great service. Any adult who is reasonably proficient in French, but wishes to improve, will find this a practical and useful guide to ways of making a personal contribution to bilingualism in Canada. This study has been prepared under the sponsorship of the Canadian Association for Adult Education.
Author: Pierre A. Coulombe
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Are far-reaching language rights defensible in a liberal society? Language Rights in French Canada explores this question in the context of a political culture long hostile to Québec's language laws, and increasingly resistant to official bilingualism across Canada. It argues for the moral validity of collective goals that aim to preserve and promote the French-Canadian identity in and outside Québec. This book makes a compelling case for recognizing strong language rights as a matter of justice. Pierre A. Coulombe addresses crucial issues about the coexistence of language communities in Canada, issues that will surely resonate in multilingual America.
Author: Hubert Charbonneau
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This book is the culmination of an enormous project aimed at the identification of the original French migrants to Quebec and their descendants in the form of a computerized population register.
Author: Benjamin Sulte
Publisher: A. Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Romey Borges
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177642995
Category : Canada, French-speaking Congresses
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Author: Louis Arthur Richard
Publisher: Montréal :s.n.
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Peter N. Moogk
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 0870135287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence—literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America— and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. Moogk also found that many early immigrants to New France were reluctant exiles from their homeland and that a high percentage returned to Europe. Those who stayed, the Acadians and Canadians, were politically conservative and retained Old Régime values: feudal social hierarchies remained strong; one's individualism tended to be familial, not personal; Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and was as important as language in defining Acadian and Canadian identities. It was, Moogk concludes, the pre-French Revolution Bourbon monarchy and its institutions that shaped modern French Canada, in particular the Province of Quebec, and set its people apart from the rest of the nation.
Author: Monica Heller
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis
ISBN: 019994721X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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The authors provides an ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economyset across francophone Canada. They examine how social difference - race, ethnicity, language, gender - has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organisation of global circulation of human and natural resources.
Author: Dean R. Louder
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This travel guide offers a unique seven-day tour, from Canada's national capital Ottawa, Ontario, to the heart of French-speaking Canada, Quebec City.
