Abstract
A comparative study of the cultural resistancecurriculum artfully integrated in the English Program of Studies bypatriotic teachers who taught in Franco-American and Canadianbilingual schools before 1960 disclosed that the French curriculumwas based on the Quebec Program of Studies. As a result, lasurvivance discourses concealed in the French textbooks werefounded on a defensive form of nationalism which blended languageand faith. This paper provides examples illustrating the kinds ofla survivance discourses selected by textbook writers to incite youngFrancophones to continue their ancestors' battles to protect anddefend their linguistic, religious, and educational rights. Forinstance, discourses referring to French Canadians as victims ofEnglish Protestant fanatics, as champions of Christian democraticliberties, and as progressive people.
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