Extensive Definition
La Survivance is an expression used by French
Canadians denoting the passive survival of francophone culture,
typically in the face of Canadian anglophone or Anglo-American
hegemony. It was used frequently in Quebec, especially
before the Quiet
Revolution of the 1960s, but also found
expression among the culturally dispossessed francophone mill
workers of northern New England,
from the 19th century on.