The Decline of Official Language Minorities in Quebec and English Canada

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
The Decline of Official Language Minorities in Quebec and English Canada
Abstract
An analysis of 1970s data on the status of French outside Quebec and the English in Quebec. The author considers the decline of both groups on the relevance to the models of institutional and territorial bilingualism.
Publication
The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie
Volume
Vol. 7
Issue
no. 4
Pages
367-389
Date
Autumn 1982
Language
en
Notes

For a an exchange of differing views over the demographic status of the Anglophone community in Quebec in the late 1970s, following the introduction of Bill 101 (the Charter of the French Language), see: Stevenson, Garth & Beaujot, Roderic, (Autumn 1979). The Language Crisis: An Exchange of Views. Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, Vol. 5(no. 4), 561–563. Stevenson argues that based on the 1971 census data used by Beaujot, individuals in Quebec with a French mother tongue increased by 4.4 percent in the five year period prior to the 1976 victory of the Parti Québécois government, while individuals with an English mother tongue increased by only 3.3 percent and "others" actually decreased (for the first time in history) by 8.4 percent. Since the English group in Quebec during this period augmented itself by assimilating immigrants and not to any extent by assimilating Francophones, Stevenson's conclusion was that the pool of potential Anglophones in Quebec was diminishing.

Citation
Beaujot, Roderic. “The Decline of Official Language Minorities in Quebec and English Canada.” The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie Vol. 7, no. 4 (Autumn 1982): 367–389.
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