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by Anne Gilbert (Editor), Linda Cardinal (Editor), Michel Bock (Editor)
Ottawa, lieu de vie français discusses the urban changes and the ways in which Ottawa francophones began thinking about and building their city, from the 1960s onwards, the ideas and actions of that period still shaping life in French Ottawa today. Stemming from the Chantier Ottawa collaborative and interdisciplinary project, this book brings together over twenty researchers specializing in the history of francophone institutions in the national capital, its leaders, and its networks. It analyzes the growth and the characteristics of the French-speaking population throughout the years, its growing diversification, and the transformation of its living environments. It brilliantly reconstitutes the events that have marked the recent history of Ottawa, describes the contexts in which these events took place and the conditions that made them possible. The contributors also reflect on the current and future impact of this history, both for Ottawa and throughout Ontario. Finalist - Canada Prize 2019 - Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Published in French.
Author Biography
Pierre Foucher (Contributor) Pierre Foucher obtained his law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1977 and his Master of Administrative Law from Queens University at Kingston in 1981. A member of the Quebec Bar, he has been a full professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law since 2008 and teaches in the areas of constitutional law and language rights.Yves Frenette (Contributor) Yves Frenette is Professor of North American history and holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Migrations, Transfers and Francophone Communities at Université de Saint-Boniface, in Winnipeg.Anne Gilbert (Editor) Anne Gilbert is Professor Emeritus in the Geography Department at the University of Ottawa, where she carries out various studies on the languages, cultures, and territories of Canada. She was Research Chair at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities from 2000 to 2009 and managed the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture from 2010 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2017. She was awarded the Ordre des francophones d'Amérique in September 2013. She is a member of The Royal Society of Canada.Linda Cardinal (Editor) Linda Cardinal is the Regional Director for the Americas at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Professor emeritus at the École d'études politiques, member of the Centre d'études en gouvernance and former holder of the Research Chair on the Francophonie and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, her work focuses on comparative linguistic regimes, constitutionalism, citizenship and minorities. She recently published (with Anne Mévellec), "Les régimes linguistiques à l'épreuve du territoire: le cas de l'Ontario francophone", Revue Internationale des Francophonies, no 7, 2020. Linda Cardinal is a member of the Order of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada. She is a Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms of the French Republic. In 2020, she received the Ordre de la Pléiade and was recognized by Francopresse as an influential figure in the Canadian Francophonie.Michel Bock (Editor) Michel Bock is a full professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, director of the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes and associate professor at the University of Sudbury. He is a specialist in the intellectual history of Quebec and French Canada. His work focuses on the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of French Canada as an identity reference and institutional reality, as well as the origin and scope of the various projects that succeeded it within the Canadian Francophonie.François Charbonneau (Editor) François Charbonneau is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies. His research has focused on political ideas as they relate to issues and conflicts of identity. He has co-edited several books on the Canadian francophonie, including Le Siècle du règlement 17 (Prise de parole, 2015) and Ottawa, lieu de vie français(PUO, 2017).
