Language Rights

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! 1968 A Turning Point for Language in Canada and Quebec From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	One of the many ways that 1968 was a crucial moment in Canadian history is in the area of language policy. In January 1968, René Lévesque published his manifesto Option Québec; a …	Graham Fraser	20	2021	$2.00 Add
A Distinct Alien Race The Untold Story of Franco-Americans - Industrialization, Immigration, Religious Strife Baraka Books	“The French number more than a million in the United States…. They are kept a distinct alien race, subject to the Pope in matters of religion and of politics. Soon…they will govern you, …	David Vermette	394	2018	View
From NEW! Crisis, Part I From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene traces the political crisis that erupted in Manitoba in May 1985 when Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau inadvertently disclosed a government agreement on official …	Roger Turene	15	2025	$1.50 Add
From NEW! Crisis, Part II From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene recounts the 1983 Manitoba constitutional crisis over French language rights, pitting Premier Pawley’s NDP government against the Conservatives and drawing federal …	Roger Turene	11	2025	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Dealing with a New Reality: The Tories Return to Power From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene examines the 1988 Manitoba election aftermath, when the Progressive Conservatives, led by Gary Filmon, returned to power as a minority government following a Liberal surge.	Roger Turene	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy SECTION THREE - The reception of franco-americans From: A Distinct Alien Race View Baraka Books	In the twenty years before 1900, a segment of the U.S. press presented the view that the Québec Roman Catholic hierarchy conspired to conquer New England. The Franco-American workers, this …	David Vermette	35	2018	$3.50 Add
From NEW! First Steps on the Big Stage From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene examines his early political and academic involvement in Manitoba’s Francophone rights movement during the mid-1960s.	Roger Turene	10	2025	$1.00 Add
From Franco-Americans and Americanism SECTION THREE - The reception of franco-americans From: A Distinct Alien Race View Baraka Books	This chapter looks at Anglo-Protestant culture in the U.S. and the culture of Franco-Americans, and the tensions that emerged as Franco-Americans denied assimilation. The author argues that the …	David Vermette	19	2018	$1.90 Add
From NEW! How Far to Go Too Far From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene examines how in August 1981, Manitoba’s French Language Services Secretariat began operating with virtually no infrastructure, under Premier Sterling Lyon.	Roger Turene	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From Introduction and Prologue From: A Distinct Alien Race View Baraka Books	A personal introduction to the topic, some broad context and history, and some definitions.	David Vermette	28	2018	$2.80 Add
From Mediating Diversity: Identity, Language, and Protest in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales From: Managing Diversity View University of Ottawa Press	Activists involved in campaigns for minority-language television services in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales regarded the creation of such services as mechanisms whereby a number of key processes …	Niamh Hourigan	28	2007	$3.36 Add
From On Language From: Laughing with the Trickster View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Highway examines the Cree language as a cornerstone of Canadian cultural and linguistic identity.	Tomson Highway	12	2022	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Québec and Me: It’s Complicated From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene traces the fraught relationship between Québec and Francophone minorities in Manitoba, spanning from the 1981 ACCT meeting in Libreville to the 1986 Versailles Summit …	Roger Turene	7	2025	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Redemption: Gary Filmon and the Francophone Community From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene examines Premier Gary Filmon’s 1989 address to the Société franco-manitobaine, a speech that redefined Manitoba’s French language policy and …	Roger Turene	10	2025	$1.00 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
From NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ …	Michael Temelini	29	2021	$2.90 Add