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Invasion, Succession and Conflict: The Case of St. Leonard, Quebec
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Invasion, Succession and Conflict: The Case of St. Leonard, Quebec
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Between 1951 and 1971, over 90,000 Italian immigrants came to Quebec, the vast majority eventually settling in the predominately Francophone Montreal suburb of St. Leonard. In 1967, the so-called St. Leonard Crisis erupted when the local school board enacted a policy removing bilingual primary schools from the municipality, the great majority of which were attended by the Italian children, in order to compel the Italian parents in Saint-Leonard to send their children to unilingual French schools. The school board noted that more than eighty-five percent of the Italian children went to Anglophone high schools after leaving primary school. In order to fight this move, the Italian parents, in February 1968, founded the Saint-Leonard English Catholic Association of Parents. To counter this organization, Francophones established the Mouvement pour l'intégration scolaire. The two communities often clashed - in the courts, in the media, and in the streets - forcing the provincial government to introduce ever-more stringent language laws (Bill 63, Bill 22 and Bill 101) in the province.
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PhD dissertation
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Pennsylvania State University
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[S.l.]
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1974
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xi-185p.
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en
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Smith, Courtney David Campbell. “Invasion, Succession and Conflict: The Case of St. Leonard, Quebec.” PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1974.
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