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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Obsessed With Language A Sociolinguistic History Of Quebec Chantal Bouchard "Did the Quebec "habitant" of the nineteenth century speak "Parisian French" or "French-Canadian patois?" And does this matter? And is the joual of the 1960s a language or a sub-standard version of F… OL17393135W
Acadian legends, folktales and songs from Prince Edward Island Acadian legends, folktales and songs from Prince Edward Island Georges Arsenault "Island historian and folklorist Georges Arsenault has been collecting songs and stories from Acadian Prince Edward Island since his student days in the 1970s: words transmitted by lamplight in the e… OL19477490W
French in Canada French in Canada Heather C. Hudak Discover the important role of French immigrants as Canada's earliest settlers and how they adapted their way of life into their new surroundings. OL21976454W
Le bossu de l'île d'Orléans Le bossu de l'île d'Orléans Cécile Gagnon "Un conte traditionnel d'une grande sagesse adapté pour notre plaisir à tous. Un conte où on apprend le poids et le sens des mots." Réf. Sélection de livres pour enfants et adolescents 1998-1999. OL22059265W
Making public pasts Making public pasts Gordon, Alan "Alan Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, a… OL5750230W