Readings

[rfmcdonald]

I was shelving in the non-fiction area of the library when I happened upon the French-language collection. PEI's Francophone population is vanishingly small; I'd guess off-hand that a majority of the children who attend the École François-Buote are immigrants, from Québec or New Brunswick or even Ontario or Europe or Africa. Nonetheless, the Confederation Centre Public Library is the chief library in a province that enthusiastically claims to be the birthplace of Canada.

I ended up picking some books: Paul Wycszinsky's biography of Émile Nelligan, Antonine Maillet's La Sagouine, two interesting books on the development of ideoloigies in 19th and 20th century Québec. Feedback later