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Québec's English-speaking community represents approximately 8% of Québec's total population when counting native speakers of the language. The proportion rises when counting individuals who, during population census, claim to speak mostly this language at home. The prevalence of the English language being what it naturally is in Canada and North America, approximately 40% of the population of Quebec claims to be able to carry on a conversation in that language. Within this climate, about half of all language shifts are directed towards English, instead of French, Quebec sole official language since 1974. As a minority in Quebec but a considerable and  organized majority in Canada, the comparision between the situation of anglophone Quebecers and francophones minorities of Canada is dubious.
Québec's English-speaking community represents approximately ~8% of Québec's total population when counting native speakers of the language. The proportion rises to ~11% when counting individuals who, during population census, claim to speak mostly this language at home.
 
English speakers by birth or adoption are mostly concentrated on the west end of the Montreal island, where they have a well established network of educational, social and cultural institutions built after the Conquest. Other important communities exist in the Quebec portion of the Ottawa-Hull region and the Eastern Townships. Historically, this community has given its loyalty to Britain and gradually broke ties with this nation after the Second World War like the rest of English-speaking Canada.
 
Since the rise of Québec as a society mainly controlled by its French-speaking majority, the anglophone community is increasingly bilingual English-French and even trilingual.


==General==
==General==
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* Equality Party
* Equality Party
* Anglophones for Québec
* Anglophones for Québec
== See also ==
In the opinion section:
* Read on [[English speakers for the independence of Québec]] and also [[English-speaking friends of Québec]]
* [[Statistics]]

Revision as of 21:46, 5 December 2006

Québec's English-speaking community represents approximately ~8% of Québec's total population when counting native speakers of the language. The proportion rises to ~11% when counting individuals who, during population census, claim to speak mostly this language at home.

General

Education

Arts & Culture

Press

Television

  • CFCF 12
  • CBC - Montréal

Radio

  • Q 92 FM
  • CBC Radio Noon
  • CHOM 97.7 FM

Health

Political

  • Alliance Quebec
  • Equality Party
  • Anglophones for Québec

See also

In the opinion section:

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