Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Canada
- Introduction
- 1 The foundations
- 2 The fading Canadian duality
- 3 Official bilingualism: from the 1960s to the 1990s
- 4 Official multiculturalism
- 5 Language in education: bridging educational policy and social psychological research
- 6 Aboriginal languages: history
- 7 Aboriginal languages: current status
- 8 French: Canadian varieties
- 9 French in Quebec
- 10 French in New Brunswick
- 11 French outside New Brunswick and Quebec
- 12 English: Canadian varieties
- 13 English Quebec
- 14 The teaching of international languages
- 15 French immersion in Canada
- 16 Language in Newfoundland
- 17 Language in Prince Edward Island
- 18 Language in Nova Scotia
- 19 Language in New Brunswick
- 20 Language in Quebec: aboriginal and heritage varieties
- 21 Language in Ontario
- 22 Language in Manitoba
- 23 Language in Saskatchewan: Anglo-hegemony maintained
- 24 Language in Alberta: unilingualism in practice
- 25 Language in British Columbia
- 26 Language in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory
- Index of names
- Index of language families, languages, dialects
- Index of subjects
13 - English Quebec
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Canada
- Introduction
- 1 The foundations
- 2 The fading Canadian duality
- 3 Official bilingualism: from the 1960s to the 1990s
- 4 Official multiculturalism
- 5 Language in education: bridging educational policy and social psychological research
- 6 Aboriginal languages: history
- 7 Aboriginal languages: current status
- 8 French: Canadian varieties
- 9 French in Quebec
- 10 French in New Brunswick
- 11 French outside New Brunswick and Quebec
- 12 English: Canadian varieties
- 13 English Quebec
- 14 The teaching of international languages
- 15 French immersion in Canada
- 16 Language in Newfoundland
- 17 Language in Prince Edward Island
- 18 Language in Nova Scotia
- 19 Language in New Brunswick
- 20 Language in Quebec: aboriginal and heritage varieties
- 21 Language in Ontario
- 22 Language in Manitoba
- 23 Language in Saskatchewan: Anglo-hegemony maintained
- 24 Language in Alberta: unilingualism in practice
- 25 Language in British Columbia
- 26 Language in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory
- Index of names
- Index of language families, languages, dialects
- Index of subjects
Summary
INTRODUCTION
English Quebec is the product of very particular historical circumstances and, as we must begin somewhere, let us start with the British conquest of 1759, itself a sequel of the geopolitics of Europe of the time. To make a long story short, we now know, thanks to Philip Lawson's recent work (1989) – although Gustave Lanctôt and A. L. Burt maintained as much over a century ago – that the British military and civil administrators, most of whom were Anglo-Irish or Scottish, became of the mind that French Quebec society was worth saving, and that the error of Ireland (the ‘Protestant Ascendancy’) was to be avoided. The concretization of this consensus was the Quebec Act of 1774, the motivations behind which have been, until the work of Lawson, attributed almost wholly to short-term strategic considerations – of buying ‘Canadian’ resistance to the rebelling ‘Americans’.
As the Parliament of Great Britain had contributed to saving Quebec from ‘Anglicization’, so French Quebecers helped to save Canada from Americanization. From their efforts, infused with the determination to save their society of the 60,000 ‘new subjects’ of 1774, and the determination of the 60,000 Loyalists who came north shortly afterwards (in 1783) to remain under British institutions, was born the Canadian political project: a conspiracy to conserve societies distinct from America.
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- Language in Canada , pp. 273 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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