Canadian, Eh?
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
Volume: 12 pages, pdf
Description:
In the mid-1980s, I used to walk twice a week between my home institution, l’Université du Québec à Montréal, and Montreal’s main English-language university, McGill. The distance is only a few kilometres but I never ceased to feel that I was moving from one world to another. My McGill students might have been curious about their counterparts in the overwhelmingly French-speaking Eastern part of the city. If they ever ventured in that direction, however, it was a foray into an exotic terra incognita. My Université du Québec students resented my suggestions that they use the McGill Library, a facility to which they were entitled by virtue of an interuniversity accord. The very thought of penetrating into the Anglo citadel was intimidating.