POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Jean Lesage, Canadian Nationalism, Language Transfer
11 Apr 2014
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The demographics of language politics: when new france was formally placed under british control in 1763, francophones outnumbered anglophones by about eight to one in the territory that would become. Canada: forty years later - the two groups were of roughly equal size. High birth rate increased francophones: the high birth rate of francophones and the vast majority of immigrants who have chosen. English as their adopted language, finally led to a decline in the francophone share of the. Immigration became the sole reason for provincial population growth by the 60"s: 46% of foreign-born residents of quebec spoke only english, another 25 spoke english and french, and only 17% spoke french only. People speaking french is = to those with mother tongue of french: people speaking english is greater than those with mother tongue of english, quebec has not become less francophone. French-canadian nationalism was originally a system of self-defence english dominated.
