french canadian adolescents in a minority milieu
abstract
this inquiry describes the lived experience of minority francophone adolescents in thunder bay, ontario. a
snowball sampling approach was used to recruit 22 participants for interviews where they were asked to talk
about the environment, the constraints upon their community, and the ways in which they maintain a lifestyle
celebrating language and culture in the minority milieu. the findings reflect how francophone identity and
ethnolinguistic vitality are sustained, even as minority group members must also participate in domains of
activity where english predominates. within these pages there is an echo of young voices telling what it is
like to be french canadian in this particular city.
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