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The community vitality of the French-speaking minorities of Canada, often explained by their demographic and institutional situations as well by politico-legal context, still suffers from a relative scarcity of empirical work that illustrates the role of these factors at the community scale. This research neglect has meant that there is no effective analysis of the milieu effect on the community vitality of the French-speaking minorities. This study proposes to better characterize the French-speaking presence in Canada outside Quebec and to interpret the milieus upon which French life is built. The analysis is based on the idea that the French-speaking presence that characterizes a given place benefits from a broader context whose resources further impact the local community. To the idea of 'localized presence', we add the idea of 'contextualized presence' to better understand the link between presence and community vitality. An original method is presented which makes it possible to apply the complementarity between these two types of presence. The paper presents a typology of Francophone milieus that provides new insights on the situation of the French-speaking populations of Canada outside Quebec. An exploratory analysis of the linguistic behavior of these populations according to the milieus identified within this typology reveals the potential of this analysis for a better understanding of community vitality in a minority situation. La vitalite des communautes francophones minoritaires du Canada, souvent expliquee par les conjonctures demographique et institutionnelle et par le contexte politico-juridique, souffre encore d'une relative rarete de travaux empiriques illustrant l'action de ces facteurs a l'echelle des communautes. Cette rarete n'a pas permis jusqu'a maintenant d'elaborer une veritable analyse de l'effet de milieu sur la vitalite communautaire des minorites francophones. Notre etude se propose de mieux caracteriser la presence francophone dans l'espace canadien hors Quebec et, ce faisant, les milieux dans lesquels se construit la vie francaise au pays. Elle se fonde sur l'idee que la presence francophone, caracterisant un lieu donne, profite egalement d'un contexte plus large dont les ressources ne peuvent faire autrement que de rejaillir sur la communaute locale. A l'idee de presence localisee, nous ajoutons l'idee de presence contextualisee pour mieux faire le lien entre presence et vitalite communautaire. Une methode originale est presentee ici qui permet de mettre en application cette complementarite entre ces deux types de presence. Prenant la forme d'une typologie des milieux francophones minoritaires, elle fournit un nouvel eclairage sur la situation des populations francophones du Canada. Une analyse exploratoire des comportements linguistiques de ces populations selon les milieux issus de la typologie montre qu'une telle approche est susceptible d'ouvrir la voie a une meilleure apprehension de la vitalite communautaire en milieu minoritaire., Introduction La vitalite des communautes francophones minoritaires du Canada est un phenomene qui reste mal compris. Si on s'entend generalement pour reconnaitre qu'elle s'explique en grande partie par la conjoncture [...]

La question de la mesure du bien-etre a ceci d'interessant qu'elle oblige les geographes a pousser leur reflexion sur les modalites de l'interconnexion entre donnees objectives et donnees subjectives. Malgre le regain d'interet pour le concept sur la scene publique, peu d'efforts systematiques ont cependant ete entrepris dans cette perspective. Notre article vise a pallier cette lacune en comparant une mesure objective de la qualite de vie de la population vieillissante de l'Outaouais (Quebec) avec des donnees sur son bien-etre obtenues par voie d'enquete. Le capital residentiel, le capital social et le capital humain sont les trois grands facteurs du bien-etre qui ont retenu l'attention. L'effet de milieu sur la relation du bienetre objectif au bien-etre subjectif a ete un important fil conducteur de la recherche. L'etude montre que, si les deux ensembles de mesures convergent assez bien, elles ne se superposent pas entierement. Les mesures objectives de la contribution de l'environnement social au bien-etre traduisent real les satisfactions telles que revelees par l'enquete qui illustrent par ailleurs le besoin de tenir compte du sexe, du revenuet de la scolarite clans le bien-etre percu. Research on well-being offers an interesting opportunity to develop a geographical understanding of the interrelation between objective and subjective measures. Despite the renewed interest for the concept, there have been few attempts in geography to move in this direction. Our paper aims at filling this gap, by comparing an objective measurement of the quality of life of the elderly population of the Outaouais region in Quebec with data on its well-being collected through a survey. Residential capital, social capital and human capital are the three factors of well-being considered. The milieu effect on the relationship between the objective and the subjective well-being is a prevalent theme of the research. Results show that both types of measures relate but that they do not coincide entirely. The effect of the social environment on satisfaction as revealed by survey was not well tackled by objective data. We conclude also on the importance of gender, income and education on perceived well-being., Introduction La question de la mesure du bien-etre a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Un arsenal d'instruments et de methodes ont ete developpes pour le mesurer et en faire rapport, dans [...]

'Les circuits d'information en region: Convergences et effets de milieu'. [Circulation of Information in Regional Settings: Similarities and Differences]. Surveys were conducted in different regions of Quebec in order to [...]

The relations between social space, new information and communication technologies, and regional development are discussed, with a focus on use of the Internet in French-speaking territories. Linguistic issues related to the Internet are also discussed.

A study of the linguistic changes during 1961-86 for the francophone and anglophone minority groups, and the general populations in the bilingual zone along the Ontario-Quebec border characterizes the areas of change, majority, minority status and the relationship among the people. The change in linguistic balance is an indication of change in social and economic relationships. The shift in the number and percentage of the minority groups and the degree of change at the local level are explained with graphs.

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When newcomers to rural areas encounter the long-time residents, they may face cohabitation challenges. On one hand, the first group tries to 'feel at home' in the existing community, while on the other, the social space of the second group is remodelled by the arrival of the newcomers. This article seeks to describe the encounter between newly arrived individuals and the long-time rural population. The empirical data were collected by means of interviews with these two groups, in two contrasted regional county municipalities (RCM) of Quebec: Brome-Missisquoi and Arthabaska. The qualitative analysis focuses on the representations-made by both populations-on what unites or separates them. Applying an analogy of Goffman's theatrical metaphor, this article highlights how the encounter varies according to the geographical context in which it occurs. The encounter is found to be generally tentative in nature, and relationships between newcomers and long-term residents often remain superficial and limited to the public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]