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By Pellegrino Stagni

ISBN-10: 0773523472

ISBN-13: 9780773523470

One of the acrimonious episodes in French-English kinfolk in Canada resulted from the bilingual faculties query in Ontario within the early a part of the 20th century; the difficulty bolstered the divisions in the Catholic Church among francophones and anglophones. In 1916 the Pope wrote a letter to the Canadian bishops within the desire of encouraging a relaxed payment to this dispute. In his dialogue the pope and his advisers relied seriously at the Apostolic Delegate of the Holy See to Canada, Archbishop Pellegrino Stagni, relatively on studies Stagni had despatched to Rome in 1915 at the difficulties concerning bilingual colleges within the province and particularly within the urban of Ottawa. within the View From Rome John Zucchi interprets those stories for the 1st time. His advent locations the reviews in context and provides old history to the occasions surrounding the divisions within the church.

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After he gave this broad background, Stagni came to what he thought was the crucial question as far as Rome might be concerned: was this a religious issue? He came down on the negative side, but at the same time thought that the Church should be solicitous towards those affected by the crisis because they were virtually all Catholics. The other pressing concern for the Apostolic Delegate was the behaviour and discipline of Church officials during this period of acrimony between anglophones and francophones.

In any written report or trial emanating from any court or tribunal in Quebec. QXD 3/6/2002 9:35 AM Page 7 7 Bilingual Schools in Ontario 1. 2. 3. 4. B. That the two languages are obligatory: in the proceedings of the House of Parliament in Canada; in the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec; in the publication of the Acts of the Parliament of Canada; in the publication of the Acts of the Parliament of Quebec. There are two or three points which you would do well to note with regard to this legislative provision: 1.

One could always count the “ethnics” as discrete groups – even if they tended to become anglophones within a generation – in order to show how small was the presence of English Catholics in the West. One can understand Langevin’s attitude. If Canada was conceived as a bilingual country or a pact between two nations or peoples, then the maintenance of the French mother tongue should not have been a problem anywhere in Canada. In a sense, French Canadians in the West and especially in eastern Ontario had the attributes of immigrants.

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