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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"French Canada"”.
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Fact or fiction : L'Histoire du Canada and its influence on French Canadian novels
… Francois-Xavier Garneau published L'Histoire du Canada depuis sa decouverte jusqu'a nos jours. Garneau' s history, focusing on the development of New France from 1534 until 1841, was undertaken in response to Lord Durham's Report (1839) in which Durham stated that French Canadians were a people …
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The Governor, the Merchant, the Soldier, the Nun, and their Slaves
… became a crossroads that connected colonial French, Indigenous, and African worlds. A study of the geo-cultural landscapes of Montréal presents an opportunity to analyze the commercial, social, and familial networks of diverse peoples in a space defined by mobility, fluidity, and growing …
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"If we didn't know what happened, you wouldn't be sitting in that chair": Communicative Purposes and Rhetorical Actions in Canadian Police Suspect Interviews
… interview transcripts in English (n=17) and French (n=18). A rhetorical move-step analysis (Swales, 1990) revealed a consistent rhetorical structure which facilitates three major communicative purposes: (1) gathering significant evidence, (2) creating a clear and consistent record, and (3) …
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The Sentinel and Orange and Protestant Advocate, 1877-1896: An Orange view of Canada
… Advocate was the organ of the Orange Order in Canada and spoke for the Lodge on a wide range of social and political issues. This thesis will examine the paper’s views on moral and religious questions and the major issues at the three levels of Canadian politics between 1877 and 1896. The paper …
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“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces
… Korean War on the evolution of the role of the French language in the Canadian military between 1946 and 1954. It explains how the Korean War acted as both a catalyst for a more accommodating stance towards the French language in the Canadian Armed Forces, and an immediate impediment to the …