"By the late 1950s Canada's francophone and Acadian minority communities located outside Quebec were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century we...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Behiels, Michael D. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal [u.a.] McGill-Queen's Univ. Press 2004
Subjects:	Canada - Charte canadienne des droits et libertés Canadiens français - Droits Canadiens français - Éducation Minorités linguistiques - Canada - Provinces Erziehung Recht Canadians, French-speaking > Civil rights Canadians, French-speaking > Education French-Canadians > Civil rights French-Canadians > Education > Law and legislation French-Canadians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada School management and organization > Law and legislation > Canada Frankokanadier Bürgerrecht Schulaufsicht Kanada
Summary:	"By the late 1950s Canada's francophone and Acadian minority communities located outside Quebec were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed at an unprecedented rate. Convinced that education was one of the essential keys to the renewal and growth of their communities, francophone organizations and leaders lobbied for constitutional entrenchments of official bilingualism and of a mandated Charter right to education in their own language, including the right to governance over their own schools and school boards. From those efforts a new, vigorous francophone pan-Canadian national community emerged, one capable of ensuring the survival of its constituent communities well into the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	XXX, 438 S.
ISBN:	0773525866 0773526307