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The Fate of Canada : F. R. Scott's Journal of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, 1963–1971
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The Fate of Canada : F. R. Scott's Journal of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, 1963–1971
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| Abstract |
This book examines how, from 1963 until 1971, a group of distinguished Canadians wrestled with the language conflict that ran the risk of tearing the country apart. Among their ranks, Montrealer F.R. Scott (1899-1985) - a poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, human rights activist, and law professor at McGill University - kept diaries that recounted the meetings of one of Canada’s most significant royal commissions. This book introduces readers to Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963–69). Scott’s journal entries recording the earliest meetings conveyed optimism for a bilingual Canada. As the years passed, however, he became increasingly concerned that bilingualism was in danger, and Quebec’s English community threatened. Scott was a champion of English-language rights in Quebec. Never before published, the diaries provides insight into the inner life of one of twentieth-century Canada’s most significant intellectuals, and a royal commission that shaped the nation’s federal language policy for decades to come.
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Montreal and Kingston
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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2021
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384p.
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en
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978-0-228-00825-5
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Fraser, Graham, ed. The Fate of Canada : F. R. Scott’s Journal of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, 1963–1971. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
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