My aunt Caroline Andrew built bridges between English and French Canada
When my aunt Caroline Andrew died in November, amid our family’s grief, I was surprised and moved by how many of her obituaries were published inCaroline was being celebrated for a distinguished career as an engaged academic focusing on the intersection of urban politics, immigration and feminism, including in an eight-year stint as dean of social sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Shoss, as we always knew her, was born in 1942 and raised in Vancouver, where her father was an English professor and later dean at the University of British Columbia. This was an era when engaging with the other linguistic solitude was a plausible, if not common, trajectory for progressive young Canadians. There was a growing recognition that French-speaking Quebec had legitimate grievances about its treatment at the hands of anglophone business and the federal government, which had contributed to the province’s poverty and cultural insecurity.
At the same time, trends in the rest of Canada were reducing the salience of the English-French divide. Pierre Trudeau’s policy of official multiculturalism gradually ended the dream some nurtured of a bicultural country anchored in harmony between its two “founding peoples.” In a mosaic nation, the place of francophones as Canada’s pre-eminent minority group made little sense.
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