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Topic: Quebec English

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		Quebec English is the common term for the set of various linguistic and social phenomena affecting the use of English in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian Province of Quebec.
		The English spoken in Quebec generally belongs to West/Central Canadian English whose Sprachraum comprises one of the largest and most homogeneous dialect areas in North America.
		French speakers, as are most Quebec English speakers, are on the other hand more likely to vary pronunciation of this type depending on the manner in which they adopt an English phonological framework.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Quebec_English (1339 words)

	Tourist Guide of Quebec, The Portal of Quebec, Canada, Accommodation, Vehicules Virtual Marketplace, Business ...
		The reputation of the province of Quebec as a tourist destination is well known.
		People come from everywhere to discover the different regions of Quebec, all unique, all different, and each visit is a renewed occasion to enjoy original pleasures and memorable discoveries.
		Whether you are looking for a quiet refugee to relax, a place to do all your favourite outdoor activities, or if you want to participate in one of the famous festivals, you will find here all the activities that will make your stay in Québec unforgettable.
	www.quebecweb.com /tourisme/introang.html (268 words)

	All about Quebec
		Quebec is Canada's oldest Province and was originally settled by the French, who we remember were the first European settlers to arrive on the continent.
		Unfortunately, Quebec was colonized during the dying days of the French monarchy and as a result early Quebec society was shaped according to that regime's values and ideals.
		Anyway, in the mid-18th Century the latecomer English colonists launched a series of wars against the French, and in 1763 Quebec was conquered and fell under British rule.
	www.filibustercartoons.com /canguide_2_regions_quebec.php (2135 words)

	Quebec's Linguistic Situation @ neuvel.net
		Quebec's linguistic situation, while the subject of countless discussions, is still strikingly misunderstood outside the province.
		In 1951, native speakers of French represented approximately 83%* of Quebec's population, native speakers of English, approximately 14%*, with 3% of allophones.
		Founded in 1982, Alliance Quebec is by far the most vocal and politically active organization "committed to the preservation and enhancement of the English-speaking communities and institutions within Quebec." The following is part of a document titled “The Historical Background of the Situation of English-speaking Quebecers” written by William Johnson, President of Alliance Quebec.
	www.neuvel.net /Quebec_ling.htm (3530 words)

	Quebec - MSN Encarta
		Immigrants who do not speak English may also be discouraged by Québec’s language laws, which require children who are not already proficient in English to attend a French-language school.
		Many of these immigrants, in turn, feel their language rights are infringed upon by laws passed in the 1970s and 1980s that restrict the use of languages other than French in the workplace, government, and schools.
		Anglophones, people who consider English to be their first language and speak it at home, made up 8 percent of the population and 0.8 percent responded by choosing both French and English as their mother tongues.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551789_5/Quebec.html (1459 words)

	Embassy Washington
		Quebec's French culture and language have flourished in Canada, in large part because of the determination of its people to resist assimilation into the English-speaking majority, but also because the Canadian federation has provided guarantees, from its beginnings, for their language and culture.
		It guaranteed the use of English and French in Parliament and the Quebec legislature and courts, recognized Quebec's civil law code and provided for publicly- financed separate schools for Protestant and Catholic minorities in Quebec and Ontario (and later in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta).
		Under the Constitution Act, 1867, English may be used in the Quebec National Assembly and in court cases, and all provincial acts and regulations are published in both English and French.
	www.canadianembassy.org /government/quebec-en.asp (1553 words)

	Arguments for Quebec separatism
		Quebecers must not "write off" the U.S. on that account, however, because the existence of Canada as a country separate from the United States has always been something of an annoyance to the United States, and there is a lot in Canadian-U.S. history that argues for the United States' siding with Quebec and against Canada.
		English Canadians have tried to characterize Quebec separatism in U.S. eyes as willfully and irredeemably destructive, and draw a parallel between separation of Quebec from Canada today and the attempted secession of the South from the United States in 1861.
		English Canadians of the more vindictive sorts may try to manipulate the United States into opposing the dissolution of Canada by appealing to linguistic bigotry, but such appeals will fail if Quebec plays it cool and reassures Americans that its quarrel is with English Canada, not the United States.
	members.aol.com /XPUS/ForQCsep.html (10330 words)

	Worldandnation: In Quebec, some take law as sign of discrimination
		Nor is this the only instance in which Quebec's English-speaking minority is challenging what many feel is the government's ham-handed effort to cram French language and culture down their throats.
		A U.N. organization has been asked to determine if Quebec is violating international human rights law by denying thousands of children the right to be educated in the language of their choice.
		From the moment you set foot in Quebec, there is no mistaking that you are in a distinctly French enclave in the heart of North America.
	www.sptimes.com /News/80999/Worldandnation/In_Quebec__some_take_.shtml (1954 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Getting English out of the Quebec toaster column
		The least complicated answer is that Quebec has utterly failed to produce high school graduates with even a basic grasp of English.
		This desire for English fluency is reflected in a curious phenomenon.
		It found that not only are Quebec students deprived of a decent shot at becoming bilingual, there is a desperate shortage of teachers qualified to teach English.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/quebec_toaster.shtml (748 words)

	Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language at the provincial level.
		Quebec's highest mountain is Mont D'Iberville, which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
		The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec (4614 words)

	Lessons of the 1972 Quebec General Strike
		In Quebec, workers were increasingly driven into the arms of their own francophone capitalists, leading to the election, with significant labour support, of the bourgeois-nationalist Parti Québécois four years later.
		But everyone from the Liberal regimes in Quebec and Ottawa to the capitalist media to the bosses’ labour lieutenants in Quebec and English Canada knew that this was no action by some “lawless minority” but a largely spontaneous and well-disciplined working-class uprising that fundamentally challenged the capitalists’ class rule.
		But the ideas of the nationalist Quebec labour tops, for all their manifestos on “socialism,” led not to the “dictatorship of the proletariat” but to the rule of the nationalist union-busting PQ, who were swept to victory in 1976 and again in 1981 with a significant labour vote.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/spc/146/quebec.html (2959 words)

	Hour.ca - Books - The plight of Quebec's English-language presses
		It's a dilemma that Quebec's French-language writers can readily identify with: For years the province's English-language writers have laboured hard for recognition outside Quebec, only to be overlooked by book review editors, festival organizers and the rest of the Canadian literary establishment, despite the fact that many of them have won major literary prizes.
		Quebec's French-language writers make sense to me in their ideological and artistic pride because in bulk the misguided and lame sovereignty dogma is there in one form or another so yeah, being identified to as a Quebec French-language writer has a measure of meaning to it.
		Quebec is the province I live in, if it came down to international recognition I'd rather be thought of as a Canadian author.
	www.hour.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=7673 (1802 words)

	Quebec
		The Voice of English Quebec conducted this study on behalf of 14 community groups funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
		In 1997, the Quebec regional office, together with the Business Development Bank of Canada, designed a market study in several stages to help client groups evaluate their potential for financial autonomy.
		The Minister of Canadian Heritage approved, in March 1998, funding to be used for the construction of a new English school in Rawdon, which will accommodate 175 students, and for the expansion of the English school in Escouminac, which will accommodate 135 students.
	www.pch.gc.ca /progs/lo-ol/pubs/1996-98/english/section3/p36.html (1047 words)

	Atlas - Living in English in Quebec
		The Quebec flag (1948) was adopted and assented to by an Act of the Legislature on March 9, 1950.
		Quebec's flag is generally known as the "fleurdelisé" flag.
		Sixteen publishing houses, eleven of which are members of the Association of English-Language Publishers of Quebec; and the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English Language Literature, which promotes and publishes Anglophone writers in the province.
	franco.ca /atlas/francophonie/english/impre.cfm?Id=15 (597 words)

	Language Log: Quebec English Teachers
		The headline of this CBC News article is Quebec English Teachers Stage 1-Day Strike.
		It turns out that the article is not about teachers of English: it is about the fact that teachers in the English-medium school system are staging a one-day strike in solidarity with the teachers in the larger French-medium school system.
		In an alternative universe I can imagine the phrase English teachers meaning "teachers in the English-medium school system", but the association of this phrase with the meaning "people who teach English" is for me so strong that even after the fact I find the headline inappropriate and misleading.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002078.html (238 words)

	Bechtel Announces Four Initiatives for Strengthening Its Presence in Quebec (English and French versions)
		Executives from Bechtel and BPR today announced a four-point plan for expanding and sustaining the presence of their companies in Quebec, including formation of a joint engineering firm.
		Pauline Marois, deputy premier of Quebec and minister of state for the economy and finance, joined in the announcements, thanking Bechtel and BPR for their commitment to Quebec and officially opening Bechtel's new offices in the Complexe Les Ailes, a landmark Montreal building.
		Riley Bechtel said that while Bechtel's reputation in Quebec is closely tied to the aluminum business, he believes the company can play an important role in helping Quebec develop other sectors of its economy, including power generation, civil infrastructure, petrochemicals, and telecommunications.
	www.bechtel.com /newsarticles/67.asp (1550 words)

	Québec Independence
		As to the fate of the Roman Catholic church in Québec, its decline was quite independent of any actions on the part of English Canada, and was quite actively encouraged by many younger secular Québecois.
		They are encouraging their children to learn French (in an effort to make Québecois feel "at home" in Canada), and for the last 20 years they have repeatedly elected Prime Ministers from Québec and allowed Québec's concerns to dominate the national political agenda, even to the exclusion of pressing economic questions.
		He observed that virtually all business in the province was done by English Montrealers and he aimed to promote the development of a french entrepreneurial class.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/paulfitzgerald1/quebec.htm (3075 words)

	CBC Montreal Matters - Quebec Writers Federation
		The Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) was created in 1998 to promote and encourage literary arts and to represent the interests of English language writers living in Quebec.
		We organize an annual literary awards ceremony; we communicate with all levels of government; we increase public awareness of literary arts and institutions through public activities; and we encourage dialogue between anglophone and francophone literary communities.
		In order to promote and encourage English language writing and writers in Quebec, QWF is involved in a wide range of activities, publications and programmes.
	www.cbc.ca /montrealmatters/2003/main/quebec_writers_federation.html (267 words)

	The English Settlers of Lacolle, Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cockerline settled at Henrysburg, Lacolle, Quebec in 1833.
		The majority of Lacolle's English settlers came from parishes in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire.
		Genealogies of The English Settlers of Lacolle, Quebec
	www.angelfire.com /home/lake/lacolle (591 words)

	Burnout climbs among teachers at Quebec's English schools
		And while the Quebec government says it's doing what it can to address workload issues — Education Minister Jean-Marc Fournier has said the province is spending millions of dollars to help schools hire more teachers and teacher assistants this year — burnout continues to halt the careers of thousands of teachers, QPAT says.
		Both the teachers' union representing QPAT members, and the Quebec English School Boards Association want the province to take swift action to hire more teachers, and review how special needs students are integrated into regular classrooms, issues that were pivotal during the last contract negotiation with the province.
		Prominent Quebec dancer and choreographer Fernand Nault died Tuesday at a Montreal hospital.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/montreal/story/2006/10/04/qc-teachersburnout.html (1885 words)

	Quebec English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While first-language speakers of English are a minority only in Quebec (under 10%), they form part of an overwhelming majority both in Canada (67%) and in North America north of the Rio Grande (over 98%), such that there is more American television and music available in Quebec than UK or English-Canadian cultural products combined.
		Note that these French words are all pronounced using English sounds and harbour French meanings.
		A francophone with excellent English will often pronounce consonents less harshly and will make less use of the glottal stop, making their speech more fluid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_English (1947 words)

	Quebec English School Boards Association \| Free Stuff For Canadian Teachers
		Many young Quebecers will be entering Kindergarten for the first time this week.
		It is our collective responsibility - Quebec school boards, this government and, the union leadership representing education workers to agree upon the conditions necessary to best serve the kids in our elementary, high school and adult centres.
		Up to the moment when negotiations were suspended in late June, the Quebec English School Board Association was of the view that important progress had been made on the non-monetary issues that all parties agreed were to be at the heart of this round of talks.
	www.thecanadianteacher.com /archives/139 (389 words)

	Québec City Tourism
		The site provides directional maps and information on these regions but you will also find a list of tourist attractions, accommodations and restaurants to help you plan your stay.
		Quebec City is hard at work preparing the commemorations of its 400th anniversary.
		It will be a time to celebrate past achievements, but also an opportunity to better understand the present, and to look towards the future.
	www.quebecregion.com /e (181 words)

	The Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec - AELAQ
		The Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (Association des editeurs de langue anglaise du Quebec) represents a lively and proud community.
		Across Quebec, we act as liasion with readers, government and organizations about the publishing world.
		The Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec gratefully acknowledges the support of SODEC (Société de développement des enterprises culturelles).
	www.aelaq.org (217 words)

	QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors : Index: Index
		From the heart of French Quebec, the Quebec Writer’s Federation (QWF) presents the work of our English-language literary community.
		As you’ll see, our best authors have become household names, and the best of our books are known throughout Canada and the world.
		In the Authors section you can look through the work of Terence Byrnes, a writer/photographer who created many of the portraits you’ll see.
	quebecbooks.qwf.org (159 words)

	Quebec Soccer
		The Canadian men’s U-20 team faced a loaded United States squad at the end of their two-week training session in Bradenton, FL today.
		Watch the pictures of these shows in our photo galleries and know everything about it in the december issue of Quebec Soccer.
		The annual Campea open doors day took place in their recently outfitted locals.
	www.quebecsoccer.com /indexe.php (250 words)

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