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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Sudbury (was Re: Sault Sainte-Marie ...)
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.022341.13195@me.toronto.edu>
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Keywords: Sault Sainte-Marie, Sudbury
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: 9 Feb 90 07:23:42 GMT


A word-of-mouth statistic from several friends hailing from the Soo:

	The number of Italian speaking residents outnumber the
	French speaking residents by about 3 to 1.

The Unilingual thing sounds like the thing to do for the Soo.  

A couple hours east:
Sudbury is another matter because much (30-40%) of the population there 
is francophone.  There is legislation being presented to Sudbury City 
Council requiring all City staff to be francophones (read: mother 
tongue = french); being bilingual just won't do.  Just when the 
place is looking great (green grass, trees, clean water, cheap 
houses), I can't go home to work because I was brought up in an 
english home.  What a country.
--
Doug Eastick -- eastick@me.utoronto.ca