Canada's Francophone minority communities constitutional renewal and the winning of school governance

Behiels, Michael D. (Michael Derek) 1946- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773571563 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773571566 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773571280 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773571280 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773525866
ISBN: 9780773525863
ISBN: 0773526307
ISBN: 9780773526303
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxx, 438 p.)
Publisher: Montreal, Que. ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-405) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1 The Renaissance of Canada's Francophone Minority Communities -- 2 The Battle for Constitutional Recognition and Empowerment -- 3 The Struggle for School Governance: Franco- Ontarian Organizations Take the Lead -- 4 Franco- Albertans, the Charter, and School Governance -- 5 Franco- Manitobans and the Charter's Section 23 -- 6 Competing Conceptions of Dualism: Confronting the Meech Lake Accord -- 7 The Canada Round: A Clash of Nationalisms -- 8 The Past is Prologue.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.