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	Canada - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canada is officially bilingual: French is widely spoken in the eastern provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, in Eastern Ontario and in specific communities throughout Atlantic Canada and the West; English is the majority language elsewhere with the exception of certain communities.
		Canada is a technologically advanced and industrialized nation, largely self-sufficient in energy due to its relatively large deposits of fossil fuels, nuclear energy generation, and hydroelectric power capabilities.
		Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges (including the Rocky Mountains) and the wild animals that reside within them, such as moose, beavers, and grizzly bears.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /canada.htm (4094 words)

	Demolinguistics of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of the 29.6 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 6.7 million are native French speakers and 5.2 million have a mother tongue which is neither one of Canada's two official languages.
		The population of Canada being unequally distributed throughout as vast territory, a look at the population of each of its 10 provinces and 3 territories is helpful.
		Languages other than the official languages are important in Canada, with 5,470,820 people listing a non-official language as a first language.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/demolinguistics_of_canada (504 words)

	Demolinguistics of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The complex nature of Quebec's demolinguistic situation, with its often bilingual and trilingual population, has required the use of multiple methods of determining who speaks what language.
		Among the ten provinces of Canada and the 50 states of the United States, Quebec is the only jurisdiction whose majority is francophone.
		There are two sets of language laws in Quebec which overlap and in various areas conflict or compete with each other: the laws passed by the Parliament of Canada and the laws passed by the National Assembly of Quebec.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/demolinguistics_of_quebec (1380 words)

	Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quebec (pronounced [kwəˈbɛk] or [kəˈbɛk]) (French: Québec, pronounced [kebɛk]) is the largest province in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,568,640 (Statistics Canada, January 2005).
		Great Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France and his advisers chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland of little importance to the French colonial empire.
		Like their counterparts in Upper Canada, in 1837, English and French speaking residents of Lower Canada, led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and Robert Nelson, formed an armed resistance group to seek an end to British colonial rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec (2651 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canada is the second largest and the northern-most country in the world, occupying most of the North American land mass.
		Canada's capital is Ottawa, home of the nation's Parliament, as well as the residences of the Governor General of Canada (who exercises the personal prerogatives delegated by Queen Elizabeth II, Canada's formal head of state) and the Prime Minister (the head of government).
		Canada is officially bilingual, with French widely spoken in the eastern provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, in Eastern Ontario and in specific communities throughout the West.
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Canada (3807 words)

	Encyclopedia: Demolinguistics of Quebec
		Statistics Canada defines mother tongue as the first language learned in childhood and still spoken; it does not presuppose literacy in that or any language.
		The Parliament of Canada (French: Parlement du Canada) is Canadas legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.
		Anglo-Quebecers are anglophone (English-speaking) residents of Quebec, in Canada.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Demolinguistics-of-Quebec (2793 words)

	Language in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the 32.2 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 7.7 million are native French-speakers and 5.2 million are native speakers of neither of Canada's two official languages.
		The population of Canada being unequally distributed throughout a vast territory, a look at the population of each of its ten provinces and three territories is helpful.
		The principles of Bilingualism in Canada are protected in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which establishes that:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demolinguistics_of_Canada (612 words)

	Canadian French - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		French is one of Canada's two official languages; the other is English and is the language of the majority (see Canadian English).
		According to the Canada 2001 Census, Canada has seen a rise in francophones outside Quebec — about 4.4 percent of Canadians outside Quebec are francophones.
		This is due to the long history of French in Canada and the fact that French immigrants to Canada kept speaking the French of the Ancien Régime while in France the French revolution led to the standardization of bourgeois Parisian French.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Canadian_French (388 words)

	Demolinguistics of Quebec -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This article presents the current demolingistics of the (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian province of (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec.
		The complex nature of Quebec's demolinguistic situation, with its often bilingual and trilingual population, has required the use of multiple methods in order to determine who speaks what language.
		Quebec francophones account for 19.5% of the Canadian population and 90% of all of Canada's (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French-speaking population.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/demolinguistics_of_quebec.htm (2501 words)

	Charter of the French Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This had to be amended following the adoption of the 1982 Constitution of Canada, which defined the educational right of French and English minorities in all provinces.
		Although language is an undefined jurisdiction under the Canadian Constitution, the federal government of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada have made interventions in regards to the Charter.
		Following a challenge, this section of the law was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in 1988, (see: Ford v.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/c/ch/charter_of_the_french_language.html (1283 words)

	Demolinguistics of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The complex nature of Quebec's demolinguistic situation, with its often bilingual and trilingual population,has required the use of multiple methods of determining who speaks what language.
		Among the ten provinces of Canada and the 50 states of the United States, Quebec is the only jurisdiction whose majority isfrancophone.
		There are two sets of language laws in Quebec which overlap and in various areas conflict or compete with each other: the lawspassed by the Parliament of Canada and the laws passed bythe National Assembly of Quebec.
	www.therfcc.org /bbs1/messages/demolinguistics-of-quebec-149870.html (1255 words)

	Choice of demolinguistic descriptor: Defining the English-speaker
		Statistics Canada has used an international body, the United Nations, as their reference for the development of a demo-linguistic descriptor that would best represent the English and French-speaking populations in Canada.
		However, since it is a self-report (people answering the questionnaire must decide on their ability) it is neither a very precise descriptor for the number of people that can really speak the language nor does it measure the proficiency in the spoken use of a specific language.
		All calculations and tables in the present study are based on a 20% sample of the FOLS population from the 1991 Census of Canada.
	www.veq.qc.ca /qds/report1/method2.html (884 words)

	Quebec - Biocrawler definition:Quebec - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
		Great Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France and his advisors chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland of little importance to the French colonial empire.
		The residents of Lower Canada then formed a group of resistance, called the Patriotes, but were soon crushed by the British army after only one victory in Saint-Denis, south of Montreal.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Quebec (2089 words)

	Lizards in Canada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Five-lined Skink) Five-lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus) occurs in southern (A prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada) Ontario in the (A group of 5 lakes in central North America) Great Lakes region.
		There is an isolated population of the Northern (Click link for more info and facts about Prairie Skink) Prairie Skink (Eumeces septentrionalis septentrionalis) in south-western (One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada) Manitoba.
		If one follows recent research, it is two distinct species (as indicated by the scientific names given here), and thus there would be even six species of lizards in Canada.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/Lizards_in_Canada.htm (220 words)

	QUEBEC FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Quebec (pronounced or) (French: QuÃ©bec, pronounced) is the largest province in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,568,640 (Statistics Canada, January 2005).
		In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec_Act that helped ensure the survival of the French_language and French_culture in the region; since it did not hinder Catholicism in Quebec, it was deemed as one of the Intolerable_Acts that spurred the American_Revolution.
		Like their counterparts in Upper_Canada, in 1837, English and French speaking residents of Lower Canada, led by Louis-Joseph_Papineau and Robert_Nelson, formed an armed resistance group to seek an end to British colonial rule.
	www.bluestarbase.com /Quebec (2439 words)

	mistype.info: canada fishing variant information page
		It consisted of the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec (Canada East), and Ontario (formerly Canada West).
		Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60 degrees west longitude and 141 degrees west longitude ([2] (http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical/territorialevolution/1927/1)); that is, Canada's territorial claim extends to the North Pole.
		Canada's constitution (see this page for text (http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/const/index.html)) governs the legal framework of the country, but has to be interpreted in light of various unwritten traditions and conventions (see Westminster system).
	www.mistype.info /canada%20fishing.htm (3903 words)

	Articles - Language demographics of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among the ten provinces of Canada, Quebec is the only jurisdiction (i.e.
		Quebec's francophones account for 19.5% of the Canadian population and 90% of all of Canada's French-speaking population.
		Aboriginal peoples in Quebec are comprised of a heterogeneous group of about 71,000 individuals, who account for 9% of the total population of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
	www.mafox.com /articles/Demolinguistics_of_Quebec (1403 words)

	Demolinguistics of Canada
		Of the 29.6 million citizens of Canada, 17.5 million are native English speakers, 6.7 million are native French speakers and 5.2 million speak neither one of Canada's two official languages.
		Since, the population of Canada being unequally distributed throughout as vast territory, a look at the population of each of its ten provinces and three territories is helpful.
		In addition to Canadian-born francophones, numerous French-speaking people from Haiti, Congo, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, Syria, Algeria, France and Belgium have immigrated to Quebec since the 1960s.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/d/de/demolinguistics_of_canada.html (793 words)

	Articles - Vermont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lake Champlain, the major lake in Vermont, is the sixth-largest body of fresh water in the United States and separates Vermont from New York and Canada in the northwest portion of the state.
		During the summer of 1777 the invading British army of General Burgoyne slashed southward from Canada to the Hudson River, captured the strategic stonghold of Fort Ticonderoga, and drove the continentel army into a desperate southward retreat.
		Young was commissioned as a Lieutenant and returned to Canada, where he recruited other escaped rebels to participate in the October 19, 1864 raid on St.
	www.g4gps.com /articles/Vermont (4777 words)

	Montreal
		Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, of which it constitutes an administrative region.
		For this reason, it is part of the railway backbone of Canada and has always been an extremely important rail city (it is the eastern terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway).
		This last is the largest church in Canada, with the largest dome of its kind in the world after that of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Montreal (2781 words)

	Journal of Canadian Studies: Statistical inquiry and the management of linguistic plurality in Canada, Belgium and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sole reliance on birth rates was soon deemed insufficient to capture the crux of the problem and there was growing interest in questions related to the power of assimilation of languages.
		As we have seen, the history of language questions in the Canadian census is closely intertwined with that of language conflicts and of attempted solutions at these conflicts.
		Lachapelle, director of Statistics Canada's Demography Division, thus describes the mother tongue question as being somewhat "constitutionalized" (1991, 11).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_200201/ai_n9069642/pg_6 (843 words)

	User:Mathieugp: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constitutional history of Canada (History of the constitution of Canada)
		Constitutional debate of Canada (Facts about the constitution, overview of the various positions, and history of the debate)
		Semantics of the word Canada (The various meanings of the word Canada over time in the original language, in French, and in English.)
	encyclopedia.openfun.org /wiki/User:Mathieugp (590 words)

	Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		QuÃ©bec (IPA for English [kwÉËbÉk] or [kÉËbÉk]) (French language : QuÃ©bec, pronounced [kebÉk]) is the largest Provinces and territories of Canada in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,568,640 (Statistics Canada, January 2005).
		Great Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France of France and his advisers chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland of little importance to the French colonial empire.
		Like their counterparts in Upper Canada, in 1837, English language and French language residents of Lower Canada, led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and Robert Nelson, formed an armed resistance group to seek an end to British colonial rule.
	www.carolinamaps.net /search/Quebec.html (2679 words)

	Metropolis Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This research is the continuation of previous projects which already gave some results with regard to Question 7 (proficiency vs. participation).
		Question 9 (demolinguistics), which raised specific problems in Quebec, could be answered in part by Jacques Ledent's research on language shift, and Christopher McAll's (with J. Renaud) research, particularly for refugees' populations.
		Their results may be incorporated in a comparative study across Canada.
	www.canada.metropolis.net /events/ottawa/LAURIER%20DRAFT%20OF%20PAPER-eng.htm (1378 words)

	Statistics Canada 5 / 11
		This includesresponsibility for the physical security of designated and classified information and other assets held within Statistics Canada; inspections and investigations of suspected breaches or violations of security; arranging checks with investigative agencies as part of the personnel screening process; emergency and safety practices and security awareness.
		The ITS is designed to measure the volume and characteristics of travel by Canadian residents outside the country and by foreign visitors to Canada.
		Appendices in the report include a description of education in Canada, a listing of universities and colleges, the data sources used, a glossary, and the full indicator set.
	www.infosource.gc.ca /inst/stc/fed05_e.asp (10719 words)

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