Mother Tongue and Marriage: The French and English in Canada

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Mother Tongue and Marriage: The French and English in Canada
Abstract
The author examines marriage in the 1980s between French and English mother tongue groups in Canada. Characteristics such as education, ethnic origin and official language ability were found to be significant factors, but the social and demographic context was also important. In Quebec, the author found that linguistic intermarriage was low for the French mother tongue population with only five percent of married French mother tongue persons having a spouse of a different mother tongue. Among Quebec Anglophones, about one-third of married English mother tongue persons had non-English spouses.
Publication
Canadian Studies in Population
Volume
Vol. 16
Issue
no. 2
Pages
187-200
Date
1989
Language
en
Citation
Robinson, Patricia A. “Mother Tongue and Marriage: The French and English in Canada.” Canadian Studies in Population Vol. 16, no. 2 (1989): 187–200.
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