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In the education sector, Québec made considerable progress during the Quiet Revolution. These advancements are constantly lauded in history textbooks, where they are given significance beyond their due. Regardless of the indicators that are used, school attendance by young Quebeckers in elementary and secondary schools increased considerably between 1960 and 1975; these figures would increase more quickly than in the rest of Canada, to the extent that starting in 1971, Québec managed to overtake the rest of Canada (see Fig. 58).
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Jean-Pierre Simard & Jean-Paul Baillargeon. “State and Service Institutions: Educational System”, in: Simon Langlois, Jean-Paul Baillargeon, Gary Caldwell, Guy Fréchet, Madeleine Gauthier & Jean-Pierre Simard (Eds.), Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960–1990, Montréal, Kingston, Frankfort Am Main, Campus Verlag et McGill Queen’s University Press, 1992, pp. 273–277.
- 2.
Ibid ., p. 277.
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Historical Statistics of Canada: Section W – Education: Total enrolment in elementary and secondary schools, by control, Canada and provinces, selected years, 1920 to 1975. Ottawa, Statistics Canada, 1983.
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Ibid.
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Sylvie Morel & Kouadio Antoine N’zué. “La scolarisation et la diplomation”, in: Sylvie Rheault & Normand Thibault (Eds.), Portrait Social du Québec: Données et Analyses, Édition 2010, Québec City, Institut de la Statistique du Québec, 2010, p. 119.
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Jason Gilmore. Tendances du taux de décrochage et des résultats sur le marché du travail des jeunes décrocheurs, Statistiques Canada, 2011 (viewed 10 July 2012): http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-004-x/2010004/article/11339-fra.htm#ntab1
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Davidson Dunton, André Laurendeau & Jean-Louis Gagnon. Commission royale d’enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme, Livre III – Le Monde du Travail, Ottawa, Office of the Privy Council, 1969, p. 18.
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François Vaillancourt, Dominique Lemay & Luc Vaillancourt. Le Français plus payant: l’évolution du statut socio-économique des francophones au Québec, Toronto, Institut C.D. Howe, 2007, p. 3.
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David Albouy. “The Wage Gap Between Francophone and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970–2000”, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’Économique, 2008, Vol. 41, No. 4, p. 1211 à 1238; Davidson Dunton, André Laurendeau & Jean-Louis Gagnon. Op. cit., pp. 24–28.
- 10.
François Vaillancourt, Dominique Lemay & Luc Vaillancourt. Op. cit., pp. 10–11.
- 11.
David Albouy. Op. cit.
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Ibid ., p. 1218.
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Serge Nadeau. “Another Look at the Francophone Wage Gap in Canada: Public and Private Sectors, Quebec and Outside Quebec”, Canadian Public Policy, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 168.
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David Albouy. Op. cit., p. 1213.
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Roderic Beaujot. “Les deux transitions démographiques du Québec, 1860 à 1996”, Cahiers québécois de démographie, 2000, Vol. 29, No. 2, p. 216.
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The impact of the demand for French-speaking workers is well described in Serge Nadeau’s article, “Another Look at the Francophone Wage Gap in Canada: Public and Private Sectors, Quebec and Outside Quebec”, Canadian Public Policy, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 159–179.
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Following Nadeau’s proof that a greater demand for anglophone workers was a disincentive for anglophones to learn French, we can deduce that a decreasing demand for anglophone workers (relative to francophones) would have increased the profitability of learning French, and thereby increased bilingualism rates among anglophones more so than among francophones; Serge Nadeau. “Another Look at the Francophone Wage Gap in Canada: Public and Private Sectors, Quebec and Outside Quebec”, Canadian Public Policy, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 172.
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Louis Duchesne. “Analyse descriptive du bilinguisme au Québec selon la langue maternelle en 1951, 1961 et 1971”, Cahiers québécois de démographie, 1977, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 33–65.
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Margaret W. Westley. Grandeur et Déclin: L’Élite Anglo-Protestante de Montréal, 1900–1950, Montréal, Éditions Libre Expression, 1990, p. 306.
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Ibid ., p. 303
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Geloso, V. (2017). The Quiet Decline (1960–Today): Education. In: Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49950-5_9
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