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This chapter is a critical analysis of the migration of multi-occupational Acadian labouring families from coastal New Brunswick villages to the industrial town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, at the beginning of the Second World War. By the mid-1960s, dozens of Acadian families had become established in the Anglophone community, and most children of the second generation were unilingual English speakers.
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Corbett, M. (2013). Remembering French in English: The Meditation of an ‘Assimilated’ Acadian. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_7
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