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Portrait of Official Language Minorities in Canada - Francophones in Saskatchewan
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- Introduction
- Section 1 Definitions of Saskatchewan's French-speaking population
- Section 2 Evolution of the population by mother tongue and first official language spoken
- Section 3 Factors influencing the evolution of the population with French as a mother tongue
- Section 4 A few key sectors for the vitality of official-language minority communities
- Section 5 Subjective sense of vitality
- Conclusion
- References
- Tables, charts and maps
- Appendix
- More information
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Introduction
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By Camille Bouchard-Coulombe, Jean-François Lepage and Brigitte Chavez
This demolinguistic portrait of the French-speaking population in Saskatchewan was undertaken with the financial support of Canadian Heritage's Official Languages Secretariat, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and Justice Canada. It is the sixth in a series of demolinguistic portraits of official-language minorities in Canada, prepared by Statistics Canada's Language Statistics Section.
This study paints a general statistical portrait of the official-language minority in Saskatchewan based on data from censuses of population and the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities in Canada, conducted in 2006. The purpose of such a portrait is to present a set of characteristics, behaviours and perceptions of the minority official-language population, exploiting the analytical opportunities contained in the data.
This document is intended to be neither a mere collection of tables nor an in-depth study of the demolinguistic dynamics of the French-speaking population in Saskatchewan. It presents a range of information on themes and issues that will interest official-language minorities and anyone interested in the past, present and future situation of minority official-language populations in Canada.
Section 1 of this demolinguistic portrait concerns the criteria used in this document to define Saskatchewan's French-speaking population. It also provides a brief description of the data sources used.
Section 2 presents varied information on the evolution of the French-speaking population and its geographic distribution and concentration in Saskatchewan. This includes a series of appended maps and a detailed table on the number, relative weight and distribution of the French-speaking population in Saskatchewan.
Section 3 concerns the main factors that affect or are affected by changes over time in this province's
French-speaking population: fertility; the transmission of mother tongue and the effect of exogamy; the age structure; intragenerational linguistic mobility; and interprovincial and international migration. It also discusses the use of French in the public sphere and how the ability to conduct a conversation in that language has evolved according to mother-tongue group.
Section 4 of this portrait looks at a few sectors essential to the vitality of minority official-language communities, as identified in the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality 2008–2013: Acting for the Future1 : health, justice, education and the media, the arts and culture. It also provides statistics on community participation, employment and income characteristics, and the use of French at work.
The last section of this portrait presents statistics on Francophones' identity and their perceptions regarding the presence of French in their community, the provision of federal government services in French, the respect for linguistic rights, and the perceived importance that people are working to develop the Francophone community.
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