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Tracing the work and the biography of journalist Paul-Marc Sauvalle, who was born in Le Havre in France, immigrated to Canada in 1884 after an eventful career in Louisiana and Mexico and died in Ottawa in 1920, this article aims at illuminating his pioneering role in the intercultural perception of the North American and Mexican regions in French-speaking Canada.. It first offers an analysis of his major work, Louisiane - Mexique - Canada (1891), which attests to his rich trans-American experience and constitutes an important contribution in this perspective, and then turns to Sauvalle's articles, which have appeared in various periodicals, from Canada-Revue to the Almanach du peuple. His discussions of Mexico, Louisiana, the Caribbean and the Spanish-American War of 1898 stem from a deep familiarity with the Hispanic world, very rare in the literary and journalistic milieux of French-speaking Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.
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A classical interpretation of the historical evolution of the Canadian policy has been to see the country as the result of tensions between two fields of spatial interaction, one East-West, the other South-North. Since the middle of the 19th Century, prevailing global geopolitical conditions have favoured one or the other. Currently, these conditions are overwhelmingly to the advantage of South-North interaction. This paper examines three types of spatial interaction between Canada and the United States in light of this broad hypothesis. The recent evolution of commodity flows, air travel and television signals indicates that a putative process of North American continental integration may be underway but that this process is chaotic and multiform, with unforeseeable consequences for the relations between Canada and Quebec.
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SUMMARYThe census is, without doubt, the most complete source of information on the Canadian population. Nevertheless, it is not free of error, especially in terms of coverage. Statistics Canada estimates this level of undercount, overall and by certain characteristics, using the Reverse Record Check (RRC). Unfortunately, this method yields only crude measures of undercoverage. The purpose of the present study is to compare the RRC estimates of undercoverage, by age and sex, with estimates produced using other sources of data, specifically: final postcensal estimates; estimates produced by the component method (for cohorts since 1961); and estimates produced through use of administrative data from Family Allowance (ages 0-14) and Old Age Security (ages 65+). Results indicate that, even though the estimates of the level of undercoverage by age differ depending on the source and/or method, the same general trend is observed Using the average of such figures, for example, can yield an estimate of the "actual" size of the Canadian population as of June 1, 1986.