french became canada's second language in 1867.
french became canada's second language in 1867.
when did french become canada's second language?
1867
following a wheat midge outbreak in canada in the mid-nineteenth, farmers in the province of ontario began to convert to dairy farming in large numbers, and cheddar cheese was their main exportable product (before electric refrigeration was invented), even being exported back the cheese's country of origin, england. in one year, 1867 the year of canadian confederation 200 cheese factories were established in ontario alone. in 1881, édouard-andré barnard created north america's first cheese-making school in saint-denis-de-kamouraska, québec. a dairy school (canada's first) opened in 1892 in saint-hyacinthe, québec, and in 1901 produced experimental canadian versions of camembert and feta. by the turn of the twentieth century there were 1,242 cheddar factories in ontario, and cheddar had become canada's second largest export behind timber. cheddar exports totalled in 1904, but by 2012, canada was a net importer of cheese, and a manufactured cheese product "kraft dinner" macaroni and cheese had become canada's most popular grocery product and "de facto" national dish. james lewis kraft grew up on a dairy farm in ontario, before moving to chicago. as writer sarah champman writes, "although we cannot wholly lay the decline of cheese craft in canada at the feet of james lewis kraft, it did correspond with the rise of kraft's processed cheese empire."
canadian cheese
research shows that both first and second language action words rely on the motor cortex for language processing, strengthening the claim that the motor cortex is necessary for action language processing. this research suggests that action language processing has direct access to semantic motor representations in both languages. this results from second language motor systems calling on and activating information from first language motor systems. initially, the semantic representations stimulated by the first language are stronger than that of the second language. but with more experience and exposure to the second language, sensorimotor involvement and second language comprehension becomes stronger. the more often a second language is used, the stronger the neural networks and associations become, and thus some researchers argue that semantic representations in second language become just as prominent as for first language.
embodied bilingual language