The history of bilingual schools, and the conflict between English and Slavic cultures in Canada. (RA)

Uses examples from literature and history to discuss the persistence into the eighteenth century, generally considered the time of the Enlightenment, of traditional French literary concepts and intellectual constructs for understanding the New World and its people.

Discusses the seventeenth-century French missionary and bureaucratic attempt to "francisize" (to make French) Canadian Indian children, so they would eventually be assimilated into the French expatriate colony, an effort based on the idea that contact with Europeans and education would convert Amerindians to Catholicism and make them…