[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re:CEGEP (was: Re: Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Sheryll Townsend]

> Carol:
> 
> > And wouldn't most schools in Quebec use French as
> > the primary
> > language, or are they all bilingual?
>  
> 
> Sheryll:
> 
> >Interesting question. Not sure how it is now, but
> >there were definitely places where you could get
> your
> >education completely in English back then. Not as
> much
> >now.
> 
> Mary Ann:
> 
> From what I understand, in order for a child to
> attend an English-speaking school in Quebec both
> parents must have attended English-speaking schools
> in Quebec as well.  In 1976 (I think) Bill 101, one
> of the whopper French-language bills, came into
> being under the Parti Quebecois, the then-ruling
> provincial government party.  I had started English
> elementary school just a few years earlier, so I was
> OK.  I was born in Quebec but my parents immigrated
> from the Netherlands, so I'm not sure if I would
> have had to attend a French school had I been born a
> few years later.
> 
> Mary Ann, taking a break from spring cleaning the
> house

Sheryll:

I moved from Quebec to Ontario in 1975, so I'm not
sure. High school was off the military base we lived
on, so that would have been impacted by Bill 101. Not
sure if they could have actually closed down the
schools on the base, which were strictly English
language schools. Hmmm... wonder if base schools are
exempt from the Bill? 

Sheryll, showing her age and proud of it (though
thinking she's too old for the close/open shifts she
had this week!)

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