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AbstractThe author examines the forces that led to the creation of building societies in Canada. The rationale, functions and evolution of these credit institutions are examined through the experience of the Canada Permanent.
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AbstractThis paper argues that André Siegfried's writings on Canada played a critical role in shaping his vision of French national identity. Siegfried's studies of Canada have long been praised for their insight, but recent scholarship has emphasized his role in promoting both anti-Americanism and an exclusionary vision of what it meant to be French during the first half of the twentieth century. For Siegfried, Canada represented a site of managed contestation between British and French culture but also an early example of the deleterious effects of Americanization. His problematic view of French Canada as essentially conservative and unchanging in the face of such challenges reinforced his conviction that France itself should remain true to “traditional” values. The exclusionary implications of his ideas were most evident when Siegfried appeared to accommodate himself to the Vichy regime, but they also persisted after the Second World War.
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This paper uses a longitudinal approach to study language transfers to French and English by individuals whose mother tongue is neither French nor English (allophones) living in the Montreal metropolitan census area. We use data collected by the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities (SVOLM) conducted by Statistics Canada during the Fall of 2006, a few months after the census. This survey made possible the collection of retrospective information on the moment (age) and location (in Canada, outside Canada) where the adoption of French or English as the main home language took place. Language transfers are analysed for two sub-groups : allophones born in Canada and allophones who immigrated to Canada. We examine transfer rates for selected variables such as age, length of residency in Canada and historical time (period). This paper shows that time, intensity and direction of transfer vary substantially between these two sub-groups.
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This study attempts to gain a better understanding of the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838, the nature of the conflict itself, as well as its social and economic antecedents, by examining the regional incidence of insurrection. Though they were widely supported throughout the province, the revolutionary Patriots were strongest in the western countryside of Lower Canada. This area, the District of Montréal, was rather more prosperous, more dynamic and more urbanized than other parts of rural Lower Canada. Contrary to traditional interpretations which tend to link the insurrection to agrarian distress, it was only in the quiescent Québec region thatfamine was a real threat. Rebellion occurred, not in impoverished sections of the countryside, but in areas where English- and French-speakers lived in close proximity and where seigneurial exactions were comparatively high.
Keywords: Bas-Canada, rébellion, agriculture, urbanisation, Lower Canada, Rebellion, Agriculture, Urbanization
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SUMMARYThe Indian population of Canada has grown from 277,000 in 1973 to about 335,000 in 1982—an increase of nearly 58,000 persons. During the next 20 years the Indian population will grow at a greater rate than the Canadian population, and at the turn of the century it may well reach 450,000 persons. On the one hand, we present the demographic situation of Canada's Registered Indians, froa 1967 to 1981. We examine the components of growth of this sub-population. On the other hand, we analyse the foreseen evolution of the Registered Indian population, till the year 2000, its size, demographic structure, as well as its distribution by type of habitat. We focus on the demographic situation of the Registered Indians of Quebec.