Bio-bibliographies — Notes on Contributors

Abstract

WILLIAM FLOCH has been with the Department of Canadian Heritage since 1990. He has served as manager of official languages (OL) research since 2001, where the priorities have been documenting the vitality of official-language minority communities and exploring the conditions under which second official languages are learned. An important aspect of OL research at Canadian Heritage is the development of relative indices which place OL minority communities in context with their majority-language neighbours, with other OL groups at other levels of geography and with themselves at a different period of time. Prior to working with the Department, Mr. Floch worked in the education and community-based sectors, including a stint as Executive Director of Townshippers in the mid-1980s.