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In February 1997, the Ontario government announced the closure of Hôpital Montfort, the province's only French-language teaching hospital. The shockwave was immediate, giving rise to SOS Montfort, an organization dedicated to saving an institution deemed essential to the survival of French Ontario. The result was an impressive solidarity movement that shone a spotlight on the issue of the francophone minority on the national stage. Edited by François Charbonneau and Michel Bock, Le moment Montfort dans la francophonie canadienne takes a multi-faceted look at the issues and repercussions of a national crisis. It offers an in-depth, never-before-published overview that renews our understanding of the socio-political condition of Canada's French-speaking minority communities.

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Marie-Claude Thifault (Contributor) Marie-Claude Thifault is a historian specialized in psychiatric institutions and mental health care in Quebec and Canada. Thifault is a full professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa and holds the Canadian Francophonie Research Chair in health. Pierre Foucher (Contributor) Pierre Foucher obtained his law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1977 and his Master of Administrative Law from Queens University at Kingston in 1981. A member of the Quebec Bar, he has been a full professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law since 2008 and teaches in the areas of constitutional law and language rights. Mariève Forest (Contributor) Mariève Forest is a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies and a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities (CIRCEM). She is also President and Senior Researcher at Sociopol, a company specializing in applied social research, consulting and collective support. As a researcher, she specializes in public decision-making, social policies related to official languages, social change and citizenship education. Anne Gilbert (Contributor) Anne Gilbert is Professor Emeritus in the Geography Department at the University of Ottawa, where she carries out various studies on the languages, cultures, and territories of Canada. She was Research Chair at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities from 2000 to 2009 and managed the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture from 2010 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2017. She was awarded the Ordre des francophones d’Amérique in September 2013. She is a member of The Royal Society of Canada. François Charbonneau (Editor) François Charbonneau is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies. His research has focused on political ideas as they relate to issues and conflicts of identity. He has co-edited several books on the Canadian francophonie, including Le Siècle du règlement 17 (Prise de parole, 2015) and Ottawa, lieu de vie français(PUO, 2017). Michel Bock (Editor) Michel Bock is a full professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, director of the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes and associate professor at the University of Sudbury. He is a specialist in the intellectual history of Quebec and French Canada. His work focuses on the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of French Canada as an identity reference and institutional reality, as well as the origin and scope of the various projects that succeeded it within the Canadian Francophonie.

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