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A Profile of the English-speaking Community of the Appalaches, L'Érable and Lotbinière MRC Territories
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A Profile of the English-speaking Community of the Appalaches, L'Érable and Lotbinière MRC Territories
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A description of the origins of the English-speaking community of the Appalaches, L’Érable and Lotbinière MRC territories served by the Megantic English-Speaking Community Development Corporation, and a portrait of the reality and challenges faced by this community in the first decade of the twentieth-first century. First settled in the nineteenth century by American, Irish, Scottish and British immigrants, by 2006 the English speakers made up one percent of the area's total population. Of this population, thirty percent were 65 years or older in 2006, compared with seventeen percent over 65 in 1996; six percent were between 15 and 24 years old in 2006, compared to eighteen percent in 1996. There are no English-language health institutions in the three MRC territories. The low rate of bilingualism among Francophones in the area suggests a reduced potential for receiving health and social services in English, as well as limited knowledge of the health predicament and care capacity of this minority on the part of majority health and social service planners and workers.
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Thetford Mines, QC
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Megantic English-Speaking Community Development Corporation
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2010
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en
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Pocock, Joanne. A Profile of the English-Speaking Community of the Appalaches, L’Érable and Lotbinière MRC Territories. Thetford Mines, QC: Megantic English-Speaking Community Development Corporation, 2010. http://www.mcdc.info/uploads/pdf/Community-Profile-English.pdf.
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